Programs and Initiatives
ADF’s National Litigation Academy and Blackstone Legal Fellowship are aimed at training lawyers to pursue cases from a socially conservative perspective based on Christian ideals.
The National Litigation Academy brings together law school professionals, litigators, and constitutional lawyers for courses of study. Volunteer and allied attorneys are offered training in areas of law that relate to religious freedom, same-sex marriage, and pro-life issues. The training is provided at no charge, but each attorney pledges to spend 450 hours of pro bono time furthering ADF's mission by representing Christian organizations and individuals. ADF states that more than 1,200 attorneys have attended the National Litigation Academy with pro-bono service totaling more than $82 million to date.
The Blackstone Legal Fellowship is a nine-week summer internship program designed for Christian law students. Interns work closely with legal professionals and advocate a Conservative Christian worldview. According to ADF, the goal of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship is "to train a new generation of lawyers who will rise to positions of influence and leadership as legal scholars, litigators, judges, and perhaps even Supreme Court justices, and who will work to ensure that justice is carried out in America's courtrooms." More specifically, ADF states that the Blackstone Legal Fellowship purposes to "quip Christian law students to engage the legal culture with biblical and natural law principles," to "ive law students confidence that the foundation of law on which our country was established is rationally superior to any competing legal philosophy," and to "rofoundly influence Christian law students to take their training and knowledge into positions of influence where they can bring about needed change in America’s legal system."
The Center for Academic Freedom was established in 2006 and works to protect the right of students and teachers to freely express their religious beliefs.
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