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WLF's Youth Education Project was started in 1998 as an aggressive campaign to educate America's future leaders about our Founding Fathers' values and demonstrate how these values have made America strong, prosperous and free. Through this program, WLF is building a foundation for a future of support for free market principles, individual rights, judicial and lawyer ethics and limited and accountable government.

WLF's professional staff serve as educators as well as educational resources at youth seminars, debates, and presentations in many venues across the country, as well as at our headquarters in the nation's capital. These engagements are attended by elementary, high school and college students nationwide. To complement our oral presentations, WLF provides students attending seminars with specially produced WLF educational literature to reinforce our message.

WLF believes that education plays a crucial role in influencing the attitudes and values of tomorrow's policy makers and business leaders. We have sought to provide students with a well-rounded overview of the basic American ideals of rights, government efficacy, public policy, and the roles of law and economics in our free market system. Our presentations, as well as our program that allows students to participate in internships and public policy seminars for full academic credit, have provided students with an array of learning materials.

Our internships enable students to utilize the basic principles they learn in the classroom, while exposing them to a free enterprise perspective of policy making. Students witness first hand the development of precedent-setting cases by WLF litigation attorneys while learning the importance of defending economic rights, curbing legal activism, holding government accountable, and ridding America's court system of corrupt judges and unethical lawyers. These "first-hand" experiences are impossible to duplicate in the classroom. Nowhere else have students been exposed to the intersection of law and public policy within the free-enterprise system.

WLF's Legal Academic Fellowship Program, established in 1978, enables law students to utilize the basic principles they learn in the classroom, while exposing them to a pro-free enterprise perspective of policymaking. While working on precedent-setting cases with WLF's litigation attorneys, Legal Academic Fellows are taught the importance of defending economic rights, curbing activists, reining in big government, and ridding America's court system of corrupt judges and unethical lawyers.

WLF's Legal Academic Fellowship Program is a vital part of the education of this nation's future leaders. The students who serve as Legal Academic Fellows benefit from their experience at WLF throughout their careers and carry free enterprise principles with them as they attain positions of leadership in government, business and the judiciary. If you would like WLF to speak to your group, or are interested in sponsoring a Legal Academic Fellow, please contact Bindu Balan, at 202-588-0302.