National Law-Related Education Resource Center. Essentials of Law-Related Education. Together, they provide K-12 students with active learning experiences that enhance their ability to explore rights and responsibilities under the law, confront and resolve disputes, and discuss and analyze public issues. LRE is typically understood to foster the knowledge, skills, and values that students need to function effectively in our pluralistic, democratic society based on the rule of law.
Law saturates our lives irrespective of age or setting.
Consequently, LRE focuses on real issues that affect real people in real situations. LRE enables educators to teach how the law and legal issues are essential to the functioning of politics, culture, and society. In so doing, it explores how the law affects students and how they, in turn, can affect the law. LRE strives to illuminate the substantive and procedural values underlying our legal system, fostering the formation of beliefs and attitudes that support such values. Concepts central to LRE include law, justice, power, equality, property, and liberty.