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Over 40 years of educating about law, democracy, and human rights
Street Law / About / Cy Pres
Street Law, Inc. develops programs and materials that educate lay people about law, democracy, and human rights. In addition to its work throughout the United States, Street Law has worked with more than 40 countries around the world to develop creative, engaging rule of law and democracy building educational programs. Street Law programs are designed to teach people about practical law while developing critical communication, advocacy, decision making and reasoning skills necessary to use the law in a positive way. Programs have been developed for school, community and justice system settings. Information about these programs is available at www.streetlaw.org.
Street Law, Inc. has received funding through several cy pres awards. The term cy pres is derived from a longer French expression that means “as close as possible.” In a class action settlement in which it is not possible to distribute all of the money to the class, a cy pres distribution to a charitable non-profit organization whose work benefits the members of the class may be the next best use of a portion of the funds. The cy pres award should relate to the purposes of the case. The court approves the cy pres award.
Street Law’s educational programs about law, democracy, and human rights include a wide range of law-related topics, and for this reason Street Law has been viewed by courts as an appropriate recipient of cy pres distributions. Street Law, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Street Law works with educators, lawyers, law students, judges, youth workers and police officers to deliver meaningful lessons about law to young people. Through Street Law’s work, hundreds of schools, law schools, law firms, corporate law departments, courts, juvenile justice agencies, and police departments have initiated programs that have brought interactive lessons about law to tens of thousands of young people.
For more information, contact Lee Arbetman, executive director of Street Law, Inc. (240.821.1310, larbetman@streetlaw.org)
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