The Orpe Center for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection uses strategic legal advocacy to defend constitutional rights and values through its nations' advocates and equip and empower lawyers with the skills expected in restoring confidence in the integrity of a nation governmental institutions.

Unconstitutional policies violate nation's constitutional. To change an unconstitutional policy there is a need for dialogue between change makers and policy makers. The constitutional dialogue sometimes occurs outside the courts and in the public square. OCAP uses public education to inform and elevate that dialogue, empowering the community with vital understandings of the Constitution based on history, text, and precedent. Through direct engagement with the public in sponsored events as well as through writing and speaking, OCAP heightens and grounds constitutional conversations. OCAP’s lawyers also drive policy change, as they with lawmakers at national, central (federal) state, and local levels to help situate their policymaking in constitutional principles and values.

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Finally, OCAP will be playing an important teaching role within the United States Institute of Leadership and Diplomacy by involving trainees in our work. Through a practicum seminar, trainees will be working directly with OCAP attorneys on constitutional impact litigation and related policy efforts. Additionally, OCAP will be providing litigation and policy support to other centers and institutes within a nation.