Journey Through Justice

Journey Through Justice is a free, four-hour, interactive learning experience for students and teachers in grades 4-12. We offer a variety of law lessons correlated to the Georgia Standards of Excellence.

We eagerly invite you to join us as we open your eyes to the excitement, fun and knowledge of the law:

• You will experience the fun, excitement and challenge of our Peach State School of Law. Students see the law come alive as experienced teachers and attorneys challenge them with insightful, age-appropriate lessons on such topics as juvenile justice, torts, criminal law and the Constitution. Become an “Honorary Attorney for the Day” after passing our bar exam and then prepare to try a case.
• After lunch, go to our fully-functioning courtroom where we have the robes, the gavel and the age-appropriate cases. All we need is your students to serve as our lawyers, witnesses and jurors.
• You will then delve into America’s mesmerizing legal past in our Museum of Law. Through educational and interactive displays and knowledgeable Law-Related Education staff members, learn about: the Bill of Rights; Freedom’s Call: the March for Civil Rights; Cruel and Unusual Punishment; Checks and Balances: the Role of the American Judiciary; and Famous Georgia and U.S. Trials.
• Our riveting day ends with “Reel Justice,” a 12-minute compilation of 75 Hollywood films depicting a variety of law-related courtroom scenes and cases. The Journey Through Justice will leave you echoing Tom Hanks’ memorable and appropriate quote, “I love the law!”

2024-25 Law Lessons

We offer a variety of law lessons correlated to the Georgia Standards of Excellence; among the topics we can cover are torts, contracts, juvenile delinquency and unruliness, and business crimes. 

LAW LESSONS

Museum Focus Areas

The Museum of Law contains walls on the civil rights movement, independent judiciary, the death penalty, and famous Georgia and U.S. cases. You may select one of these walls as the focus of your museum visit, or you may choose to have the Law-Related Education staff select the museum content to be covered. Groups which are too large to fit in the physical Museum of Law will view one or more videos from our Virtual Museum of Law. Download the list of available focus areas if you are interested in choosing a focus area. 

Museum Focus Areas

Journey Through Justice FAQs

For all of the answers to your Journey Through Justice questions, view our FAQ page. 

FAQS