Lane College, in Jackson, Tennessee will be the site of the November 2017 Supreme Court Advancing Legal Education for Students (SCALES) project.
Lane College, founded in 1882 by one of the nation’s early African American church denominations, is a small, private, co-educational institution that provides a liberal arts curriculum leading to baccalaureate degrees in the Arts and Sciences.
The SCALES project is a Tennessee Supreme Court initiative designed to educate high school students about the judicial branch of government and gives students a unique opportunity to hear the oral arguments for an actual Supreme Court case in a nearby community.
Since the creation of the program in 1995, the SCALES project has given more than 25,000 Tennessee students from more than 460 high schools the ability to see the judicial branch in action.
Earlier this year, the Tennessee Supreme Court was recognized for its SCALES Project as the 2016 recipient of the Sandra Day O’Connor Award for the Advancement of Civics Education.
This program has been made possible thanks to generous support from the Ansley Fund of The Frist Foundation.
