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Common Law Press empowers students and educators with practical legal literacy.

We create open-and-go curriculum: high school law courses with real-world lectures grounded in constitutional law, criminal procedure, and the inner workings of the American justice system.

Built for homeschoolers, co-ops, and curious minds, our materials make complex legal ideas understandable, relevant, and engaging.

Attorney authored, our curriculum is based on hands on practical legal knowledge. Students read summaries of cases taught in law schools today. Lessons teach about in depth legal concepts, providing an accurate preview of how the legal process actually works.

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Inspire deeper thinking about justice, rights, and responsibility.

Common Law Press brings real-world law to real people.

Our goal is to democratize legal literacy by providing high-quality, accurate, and thought-provoking resources on American law and justice.

Constitutional Structure, Judicial Power & Standing

This unit introduces the constitutional foundations of the American legal system—separation of powers, federalism, and the structure of Articles I–III—while guiding students through judicial review, standing, justiciability, and personal jurisdiction. Through landmark cases, Federalist Paper excerpts, and a mini moot court exercise, students practice legal reasoning and have the option to complete a mini case brief.

Rights, Due Process & Criminal Procedure

This unit introduces students to the foundations of criminal procedure by tracing the historical development of policing, explaining core evidentiary rules, and examining constitutional protections under the Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Through topics such as the exclusionary rule, hearsay, motions in limine, prosecutorial selection, and juvenile justice case studies, students explore how fairness, due process, and proportionality shape the modern justice system. Students have the option to draft a motion, and apply the principles they are learning through the lens of an anchor novel study.

Private Law, Torts, & Liability

This unit examines how the law allocates fault, risk, and responsibility between individuals through core tort and contract principles. Students explore doctrines from nuisance to assumption of risk, eggshell skull, and joint liability, applying them to real-world scenarios involving injuries, accidents, property disputes, biotech property rights along with parody and privacy in modern intellectual property law.

Public Law, Rights, & Evidence + Mock Trial

This unit explores the constitutional limits on government power by examining how rights, privacy, and the use of evidence are regulated in public law. Through topics ranging from administrative interpretation and defamation to Miranda rights, juvenile justice, surveillance, and police use of force, students analyze the tension between public safety and individual liberties. This unit culminates in an optional mock trial extension which brings the unit’s principles into practice, allowing students to synthesize criminal and civil procedure through a full courtroom simulation.

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