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Legal Writing Prof Blog

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Perspective on Technology and Learning and What Students Know

Posted on August 07, 2008
Here's a GUEST BLOG POST from Hillary Burgess. Enjoy! If you want to submit a guest post, just click here. (mew) Yesterday, I was telling my husband a story, during the course of which, I said, ?Didn?t you get the...

laws regarding children's names

Posted on August 07, 2008
OK, I'm sure that this topic--appropriate names for children and state (in this situation, New Zealand) interests in blocking parents' choices--could be worked into a simple fact pattern on state laws regarding name changes. But mostly, I'm just reacting to...

"variant" spellings and tolerance levels

Posted on August 07, 2008
This Chronicle of Higher Education article reports that at least one professor has given up the fight on some "variant" spellings. Personally, I'd argue that "thier" for "their" is something beyond variant. (njs)

a clip for your first class

Posted on August 07, 2008
From the TV series, How I Met Your Mother-- Studying law . . . Making a responsible choice for my future (on Friday night . . .) Being a lawyer had better be awesome! (cmb)

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quotable

Posted on August 07, 2008
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ~ John Locke (cmb)

100,000+ Visits to the Legal Writing Prof Blog!

Posted on August 06, 2008
A short time ago the Legal Writing Prof Blog had its 100,000th visitor. Congratulations to the Blog founders who had the vision to create a forum that would be visited so frequently. Thanks for taking Jim and me on as...

HeinOnline adds Facebook page

Posted on August 06, 2008
Are you a fan of HeinOnline? If so, you'll want to sign up on its new Facebook page. Among its features are links to Hein's YouTube research videos, such as "Printing Multiple PDF's at a Time," and even a link...

new edition of Adams's Manual of Style for Contract Drafting

Posted on August 06, 2008
The ABA has published a "redesigned" second edition of Ken Adams's A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. The book is reportedly now 200 pages longer and covers new topics. It also now includes an appendix with three versions of...

assessing student evals

Posted on August 06, 2008
An article by Arthur Best (Denver) in volume 38 of the Southwestern University Law Review (the working paper is downloadable from SSRN) looks at the educational research surrounding the validity of student evaluations of their professors and adds Best's own...

St. John's to host December LRW conference

Posted on August 05, 2008
St. John's University School of Law is hosting a one-day conference in Manhattan on Friday, December 5, 2008, titled "Practice Meets Pedagogy." The conference topic is the changing world of law practice and how it affects the teaching of legal...

Legal Writing Professors Take Leading Role in Protesting AALS Meeting at the Manchester Grand Hyatt

Posted on August 05, 2008
What to do about Doug? Doug Manchester, the homophobic owner of the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel in San Diego, donated $125,000 to help get the measure on the ballot that would repeal the rights of same-sex couples across the country...

125 More Photos from the LWI Summer Conference!

Posted on August 04, 2008
Here is a link to 125 wonderful photos from this summer's Legal Writing Institute Conference. The photos were taken by David Austin (who recently won several awards in the Union League Club of Chicago photo competition). Click on this link,...

more reasons to be careful about Facebook postings

Posted on August 04, 2008
I recently joined Facebook, mainly to be a "fan" of the Legal Writing Institute, but also because I am trying to evolve into a 21st century prof, Boomer that I am. I particularly like my co-blogger Mark Wojcik's warning to...

Call for Papers - Annals of Health Law

Posted on August 04, 2008
The Annals of Health Law Editorial Board is seeking submissions for the Winter 2009 issue. Annals of Health Law is the Health Policy and Law Review of Loyola University Chicago School of Law. The editors are seeking articles relating to...

new titles in LRW and legal ed topics

Posted on August 04, 2008
Carolina Academic Press has announced the following titles, all forthcoming in 2008, and which our readership may find to be of interest. Click the links to read the publisher's blurbs about each book: A Lawyer Writes: A Practical Guide to...

Who Will Be Our 100,000th Visitor?

Posted on August 03, 2008
Sometime this week we will reach a landmark -- 100,000 visits to the Legal Writing Prof Blog. We won't know who that visitor will be, but if it is YOU please let us know. (mew)

Explaining Rules of Law: Add an E to Your IRAC

Posted on August 03, 2008
Here's an article that I wrote in the ABA Student Lawyer Magazine. It shows law students how they can "explain" rules of law in memoranda, briefs, and law school examinations. Click here to download the article. The article is called...

A Possible Legal Writing Problem

Posted on August 01, 2008
A student runs into the campus bookstore to buy textbooks. He doesn't want to wake up his child, who has finally fallen asleep in the back seat. When he returns to the car, he's arrested for child endangerment under a...

Lou Sirico Explains the Separation of Powers

Posted on August 01, 2008
Louis J. Sirico Jr. of Villanova University has a new paper on "How the Separation of Powers Doctrine Shaped the Executive." Click here to read it. Here's the abstract: This Article examines the debates of the Founders over the separation...

Law Firm to Law School: We're not hiring your grads until you improve your legal research (and legal writing) program

Posted on July 31, 2008
How can we make law schools improve the quality of their legal research (and legal writing) programs? Here's a suggestion from our friends at the Law Librarian Blog -- have law firms tell law schools that they will no longer...

LWI Submits Comments to ABA on "Security of Position"

Posted on July 31, 2008
The Legal Writing Institute has sent a letter to the American Bar Association with its comments on the Report of the Special Committee on Security of Position. Click here to see the letter. (mew)

gauging interest in moot court advisors listserv

Posted on July 31, 2008
At the recent LWI Conference in Indianapolis, one of the events was a lunchtime roundtable for moot court advisors, hosted by co-panelists Melissa Greipp (Marquette), Jim Dimitri (Indiana-Indianapolis), and me (Coleen Barger, Arkansas-Little Rock). Not surprisingly, we had more topics...

quotable

Posted on July 31, 2008
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. -- Dennis Roth (cmb)

job opening at Thomas Jefferson

Posted on July 30, 2008
Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, is seeking applicants for a tenure-track position teaching legal writing and other courses beginning in Fall 2009. Information about Thomas Jefferson's legal writing program and its faculty is available here...

APPEAL books on their way to Africa

Posted on July 30, 2008
We've previously posted here and here about the drive to collect law books for APPEAL (Academics Promoting the Pedagogy of Effective Advocacy in Law). Laurel Oates (Seattle) reports that all of the donated books--weighing in at more than 4,000 pounds--for...

The scholarship dude is on the job.

Posted on July 29, 2008
i would like to thank the Legal Writing Blog Masters for inviting me to join as a contributing editor. As the blog's "scholarship dude," I plan to use this forum to publicize important, useful and informative scholarship relating to effective...

Article in Sunday's NYT's about the new literacy

Posted on July 29, 2008
In case you missed it, the Sunday NYT's had a great front page article discussing the impact of computers on children's literacy. Among other points, the article noted that the definition of literacy may need to be reworked in the...

making a difference: Ryan's Law

Posted on July 28, 2008
Many of you will remember Lorri Unumb, who has directed LRW programs at George Washington and at Charleston. When their son was diagnosed with autism five years ago, she and her husband Dan quickly learned that medical insurance does not...

Notice arrived today morning from

Posted on July 28, 2008
Notice arrived today morning from the LSN division of SSRN about the following LRW related articles, with their abstracts: "Find it! Legal Research on the Web" WILLIAM A. HILYERD, University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Materials...

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