Street Law kids attend human rights exhibition on-campus

Street Law teachers, and their high school students, pack Hart Auditorium.The Street Law: High Schools clinic today hosted a multimedia exhibition and competition co-sponsored by the D.C. Commission for Human Rights the Women of Color Collective in Hart Auditorium.

In the Street Law clinic, Georgetown Law students teach law to high school students throughout D.C. As part of the clinic, teachers brought their classes to the Law Center from 3:30-5:30 to show off video projects, posters and other media projects the high school students created, all on the subject on the District’s human rights law. The exhibit was titled “Know Your Rights: DC Students Take on the Human Rights Act.”

Excited students from Dunbar, Duke Ellington, Luke Moore and other high schools packed the auditorium. Judge David Simmons of the D.C. Commission on Human Rights was on hand, as were a handful of practicing attorneys who have assisted the various classes.

Sarah Medway, an attorney and the Street Law clinic fellow, moderated the program along with Georgetown Professor Richard Roe, the longtime director of the Street Law clinic. Check back later for more details.