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Street Law: A Course in Practical Law, ©2026, 11e

Grades: 9 - 12

The most widely-used and trusted resource for teaching law in high schools!
Street Law c26, 11e provides young people with practical legal knowledge that is relevant to their everyday lives. Student-centered, interactive, democratic pedagogy ensures the development of high-level critical thinking and problem-solving skills, engagement, and communication skills that are consistent with emerging state and national standards. 

Program Details

The most widely-used and trusted resource for teaching law in high schools!
Grades: 9 - 12
Street Law: A Course in Practical Law (2026) empowers students with the legal and civic knowledge, skills, and confidence to be engaged and informed citizens while affecting positive change. This student-centered, interactive program features a new chapter National Security Law, new Kahoots, and updated: 
  • U.S. Supreme Court rulings concerning: presidential immunity, government agencies, gerrymandering, the First and Second Amendment, and more! 
  • Photos, statistics, scenarios in features and problems to reflect recent data and court cases. 
  • Content such as cybercrime and its enforcement, voting reform, public corruption and sedition, and much more! 
This dynamic high school law program: 
Engages students in every unit with a deliberation feature on contested public issues such as fracking, mandatory reporting of domestic abuse, and hate speech. 
Explores current issues with new and updated Supreme Court case studies, civil rights scenarios, and activities on current topics such as cybercrime, identity theft, intellectual property rights, national security, immigration, marriage equality, and much more. 
Involves students with Taking Action: Law and Democracy, Investigating the Law Where You Live, and You be the Judge feature strands. 
Develops analytical skills as students consider the legal aspects of social, economic, moral, and political issues through activities such as mock trials and moot courts.