Law Scholars Summer Courses at Harrow
Explore how laws shape society, investigate questions of rights, responsibility and justice, and develop your confidence constructing and challenging arguments with Atlas Summer Courses. Our Law Scholars summer course at Harrow, designed for students aged 12–14, gives young learners the opportunity to explore law beyond their usual studies through engaging, age-appropriate teaching that encourages critical thinking, reasoning and independent thought.
Through small-group teaching, legal scenarios and independent study, students will examine evidence, consider competing perspectives and become more confident developing and communicating reasoned arguments of their own while enjoying the wider experience of spending their summer at Harrow with Atlas Summer Courses.
What's Included?
Your residential Law Scholars summer course at Harrow combines academic teaching with the wider Atlas Summer Courses residential experience.
Students spend their programme learning alongside other young people, with academic sessions complemented by activities and opportunities to socialise as part of the programme.
Study Law at Harrow
Our Law Scholars summer course at Harrow gives students aged 12–14 the opportunity to explore law, justice and legal reasoning as part of an Atlas Summer Courses summer experience.
Law helps societies establish rules, protect rights, resolve disputes and determine how individuals, organisations and governments should behave. Studying law involves understanding these rules, but it also means asking deeper questions about how they should be interpreted and whether they produce fair outcomes.
Law Scholars encourages students to think critically about these questions. They'll consider different perspectives, examine evidence and begin to understand how arguments can be constructed and challenged.
Across the course, students will be encouraged to move beyond simply stating their opinion. They'll learn to identify relevant information, consider counterarguments and explain why the evidence available supports one conclusion rather than another.
Outside their academic sessions, students will experience the wider programme alongside other young learners, combining their Law course with the social and cultural elements of their Atlas Summer Courses summer at Harrow.
What Will Students Study on a Law Scholars Summer Course at Harrow?
There is no prescribed syllabus that every student follows. Atlas Summer Courses tutors create their own syllabi, drawing on their expertise while taking the interests, abilities and learning needs of their students into account.
Depending on the tutor and group, students could explore different areas of law, legal reasoning and questions surrounding rights, justice and responsibility.
They might consider questions such as:
- Why do societies need laws?
- What makes a law fair or just?
- How should laws balance individual rights with wider responsibilities?
- How can evidence be used to establish what happened in a legal dispute?
- What makes one legal argument stronger than another?
- Why might reasonable people interpret the same evidence differently?
- How should laws respond when societies and technologies change?
The precise content will reflect the tutor's expertise and the interests and learning needs of the students in the group.
Any syllabus shown on our website is an example from a previous course rather than a guarantee of the exact legal topics, cases or questions students will explore.
How Students Will Learn on Law Scholars
Law Scholars combines interactive small-group teaching with independent study, giving students opportunities to explore legal questions, examine evidence and develop arguments of their own.
Ages 12–14
Students will explore Law through small-group academic sessions designed to encourage active participation, critical thinking and independent reasoning.
Teaching could include discussions, debates, fictional cases, legal scenarios, evidence-based challenges and opportunities to construct and challenge arguments. Students might, for example, consider the evidence surrounding a dispute, develop arguments for different sides of a case or debate how a particular legal principle should apply to a new situation.
Independent work gives students an opportunity to develop their thinking beyond teaching sessions. Depending on the course, this could involve researching a legal question, examining a case or scenario, developing an argument or preparing work to discuss with their tutor and peers.
Across the course, students will be encouraged to question assumptions, listen carefully to competing perspectives and become more confident supporting their conclusions with evidence and reasoning.
The emphasis is on academically exploring law and legal reasoning at an age-appropriate level rather than replicating professional legal training.
Actual course content and activities will vary depending on the expertise of the individual tutor.
Your Summer Experience at Harrow
A student's time with Atlas Summer Courses extends beyond their Law Scholars course.
Students will spend their programme living and learning alongside other young people, combining academic sessions with the wider social and cultural elements of their summer experience.
Outside lessons, there will be opportunities to spend time with other students, participate in organised activities and enjoy the wider residential programme.
The focus remains on the Atlas Summer Courses experience at Harrow: combining engaging academic learning with opportunities to develop confidence, independence and new friendships in a supportive summer environment.
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Who Is Our Law Scholars Summer Course at Harrow For?
Our Law Scholars summer course at Harrow is designed for students aged 12–14 who are curious about law, justice and how societies make and apply rules.
Students don't need any previous knowledge of law before joining. The course may particularly appeal to young people who enjoy debating different points of view, analysing evidence, questioning whether decisions are fair or constructing arguments about complex issues.
Students also don't need to have decided that they want to become a lawyer. Law Scholars provides an opportunity to discover what studying law involves and whether legal questions, argument and reasoning are areas they might want to explore further as they get older.
Students can develop transferable skills including critical thinking, logical reasoning, evaluating evidence, constructing arguments, considering counterarguments, independent study and communicating ideas clearly and persuasively.
Learn from Expert Tutors
Atlas Summer Courses tutors are experienced educators and subject specialists who bring their own knowledge, interests and enthusiasm into their teaching.
For our Scholars students, tutors aim to create an environment where everyone feels encouraged to participate, question ideas and develop arguments of their own. Law teaching is designed to be engaging and age-appropriate while challenging students to think carefully about evidence, reasoning and competing perspectives.
Because tutors shape course content around their expertise and the students in their group, different Law Scholars courses at Harrow may explore different legal questions, cases and approaches to reasoning.
Tutors are confirmed closer to the summer, so profiles on our website are examples of tutors who have previously taught with us rather than confirmation of who will teach a particular course.
What Can Students Gain from Law Scholars?
Law Scholars can help students become more confident analysing complex questions, evaluating evidence and developing arguments that are supported by clear reasoning.
Students can strengthen habits associated with legal thinking: identifying relevant information, distinguishing between claims and evidence, considering competing interpretations, anticipating counterarguments and explaining why they have reached a particular conclusion.
These skills can support future learning across Law, History, Politics, English and other humanities and social sciences. More broadly, the ability to analyse information critically, understand different perspectives and communicate a persuasive argument can be valuable across many different areas of study.
A Law Scholars summer course at Harrow gives students the opportunity to explore law beyond their usual studies while developing confidence, critical thinking and reasoning skills that can support their future learning.
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FAQs about Our Summer Courses
Atlas Summer Courses offers a range of summer courses at Harrow across subjects including Science, Maths, Medicine, Law, History, Technology, Creative Writing and Enterprise. The subjects available vary according to age group, with courses designed specifically for younger learners.
Our summer courses at Harrow include Explorers courses for students aged 9–10 and 11–12 and Scholars courses for students aged 12–14. Teaching and activities are designed around each age group, providing an appropriate level of academic challenge, support and independence.
Our residential summer courses at Harrow combine academic learning with accommodation and a wider programme of organised activities and opportunities to socialise with other students. The experience is designed to give younger learners a supportive environment in which they can explore their interests, build confidence and enjoy their summer with Atlas Programmes.
No. Atlas Summer Courses is an independent summer course provider and is not part of, affiliated with or endorsed by Harrow School. Our summer courses at Harrow are organised and delivered by Atlas Programmes, with the focus on our courses and the wider Atlas Programmes summer experience.
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