Programs & Initiatives

2017 Silver Gavel Awards The 2017 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts competition is now accepting submissions. Eligible entries must have been originally published, produced, or shown in 2016. Learn more.

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Programs & Initiatives

  • Silver Gavel Awards

    The American Bar Association annually presents the Silver Gavel Awards to recognize work in media and the arts published or presented during the preceding year that have been exemplary in helping to foster the American public’s understanding of law and the legal system.

  • National Civics & Law Academy

    The National Civics & Law Academy offers students a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It is an extraordinary opportunity for young people to visit the nation's capital to experience "close up" law, government, and the justice system in the United States.

  • Summer Institute for Teachers

    Designed especially for teachers of U.S. History, Government, Civics, and Law, the Federal Trials and Great Debates Summer Institute deepens participants’ knowledge of the federal judiciary and of the role the federal courts have played in key public controversies that have defined our constitutional and other legal rights.

  • National LRE Conference

    Every two years, the ABA Division for Public Education hosts the National Law-Related Education Conference. It is a national assembly of teachers, professors, lawyers, judges, and civic education professionals who teach about law and its role in society.