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 ​​Teachers Law School  

Teachers Law School is presented by the Orange County Chapter of American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) in partnership with the Orange County Department of Education.

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​2023 - Untold Stories of Japanese Internment: Navigating Legal and Community Challenges Featured Speaker: Janice Munemitsu ​​

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2022 - The Mendez Historic Freedom Trail and Monument​

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Featured Speaker: Sylvia Mendez

Text Set with Resources Google Folder​

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 2021- Tinker v. Des Moines: Student Engagement and the First Amendment

 

Featured Speaker: Mary Beth Tinker

Agenda with Resources Google Folder

2020 - Constitutional Constants During Time of Crisis

Featured Speaker: Dr. Ralph Young

Agenda with Resources Google Document
Lesson Application Google Document

Tanforan Assembly Center, line to mess hall

Korematsu v. United States, 1944
Featured Speakers:

• Presentation by Assistant U.S. Attorney Vibhav Mittal
• Presentation United States Probation Officer Greg Vidana
• Hon. Josephine L Staton, Judge, US District Court
• Hon. David O. Carter, Judge, US District Court
• Magistrate Courtrooms - Presentation by Hon. John D. Early, U.S. Magistrate Judge
• Hon. Kirk Nakamura, Presiding Judge, OC Superior Court
• Hon. Joanne Motoike, Presiding Judge, OC Juvenile Court
• Michael Maguire, Esq. National President of ABOTA

Agenda Google Document

Planning Template Google Document 

 2018 - Civics Content for the Classroom

Mr. and Mrs. Mendez

Mendez, et al v. Westminister [sic] School District of Orange County, et al, 1946
Featured Speakers:

• Judge Charles Margines, Presiding Judge, Orange County Superior Court
• Judge Maria D. Hernandez, Former Presiding Judge, Orange County Superior Court, Juvenile Division
• Justice William W. Bedsworth, 4th District Court of Appeal
• Justice Kathleen E. O’Leary, Presiding Justice, Fourth District, Third Division, California Court of Appeal
  Justice Raymond J. Ikola, Justice of the Fourth District, Third Division of the California Court of
  Appeal Justice Richard D. Fybel, Justice of the Fourth District, Third Division of the California Court of Appeal

• Michael P. Maguire, Vice President of the American Board of Trial Advocates
• Special Guest, Gonzalo Mendez, Jr.

 Erwin Chemerinsky

Featured Speakers:

• Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of University of California Berkeley School of Law
• Judge Charles Margines, Presiding Judge, Orange County Superior Court
• Judge Maria D. Hernandez, Presiding Judge, Orange County Superior Court, Juvenile Division
• Justice Kathleen E. O’Leary, Presiding Justice, Fourth District, Third Division, California Court of Appeal
• Justice Raymond J. Ikola, Justice of the Fourth District, Third Division of the California Court of Appeal
• Justice Richard D. Fybel, Justice of the Fourth District, Third Division of the California Court of Appeal
• Michael P. Maguire, Vice President of the American Board of Trial Advocates

Agenda Google Document