We each interact with the civil and criminal legal system on a daily basis, yet legal education is not considered to be a foundational necessity within the K-12 curriculum. When more than 1/3 of Americans can’t name any rights guaranteed under the First Amendment, we are facing a critical literacy gap: we lack the very legal life skills that are essential to our daily lives. Being legally literate is not limited to knowing what your rights are; it is about being empowered with skills in financial literacy, digital literacy, and the tools necessary to be a citizen of this rapidly evolving state and country.
 
LiberTeach, an initiative founded by Stanford undergrads and backed and advised by J.D. candidates, professors of law, and licensed attorneys, is dedicated to closing this gap between the law and all levels of our educational systems through a modified street law teaching model. As distinguished from existing street law models, LiberTeach serves a greater population of students due to the greater capacity that undergraduate students have to teach this curriculum, in comparison to models that rely entirely on J.D. candidates. Ultimately, this framework may be modeled by other universities as we solidify these practices into curriculum change on the policy scale.