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Legal Writing

Legal Writing Prof Blog

By law professors Coleen M. Barger, Sue Liemer and Nancy Soonpaa

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 15:42:31

improve your persuasion with priming

Posted on August 11, 2010
As time allows, we continue to bring you news of helpful scholarship. Kathy Stanchi (at Temple) explains how lawyers and law students alike can strengthen their persuasion in her new article on "The Power of Priming in Legal Advocacy: Using...

They also need to "think like a librarian."

Posted on August 10, 2010
In the range of skills we need to teach law students, they also need to know "Thinking Like a Librarian: Tips for Better Legal Research", as explained by author Richard Buckingham: "When it comes to conducting legal research, being able...

Are they really learning to "think like a lawyer?"

Posted on August 10, 2010
While the legal academy is busy patting itself on the back for the one positive result of the Carnegie Report, the finding that law schools do a good job of teaching 1Ls to "think like a lawyer," Doug Rush is...

a legal research guide for your state

Posted on August 09, 2010
The Legal Research Series is a series of state-specific guides to legal research. Many legal writing professors are the authors of these books. Suzanne Rowe wrote the first book in the series and now serves as the series editor. The...

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what Kagan did at Harvard

Posted on August 09, 2010
For some insights into what our newest Supreme Court Justice did while at Harvard Law School, take a look at Kevin Washburn's new article on "Elena Kagan and the Miracle at Harvard". Here's how he describes her impact as an...

LRW profs on the move

Posted on August 08, 2010
Santa Clara University School of Law is welcoming two new legal writing professors this fall. One is Courtney Huizar, a former clerk to Judge Walker. The other is Michael Smith, formerly an adjunct at Hastings College of Law. Two of...

language bloopers

Posted on August 08, 2010
If you need a laugh in the middle of the summer heat -- or some good (?) examples of language bloopers to show in legal writing class this fall -- click over to Mental Floss's list of blogs devoted to...

Michael Higdon, Time Magazine, and Project Runway

Posted on August 07, 2010
Michael Higdon is the Treasurer of the Legal Writing Institute. He teaches at the University of Tennessee College of Law at Knoxville. He was recently quoted on the pedagogy of Project Runway. What did he have to say? Click here...

Friday Fun: The BYU Library Video "New Spice"

Posted on August 06, 2010
The Old Spice commercials went viral on YouTube, and now a creative parody from Brigham Young University has gone viral as well. Click here if you haven't seen it yet -- it explains why you should study in the library....

Hamline University School of Law

Posted on August 06, 2010
Hamline University School of Law announced that Derik Fettig will be joining its faculty as a visiting Legal Research and Writing faculty member. Derik is a Stanford Law School Order of the Coif graduate who clerked for the 9th Circuit...

Janice Aitken

Posted on August 05, 2010
Carolyn Broering-Jacobs, the Director of Legal Writing at Cleveland-Marshall, shared this sad news on the legal writing professors' listserve: "With a heavy heart, I write to share news of the sudden and unexpected passing of Janice Aitken, a beloved colleague...

Thoughts on the Status of Legal Writing Professors from Professor Ralph Brill

Posted on August 05, 2010
Professor Ralph Brill of the Chicago-Kent College of Law posted a message this week on the Legal Writing Listserve that has generated a great deal of discussion. With his permission, we excerpt portions of his message and share them with...

towards a better 1L curriculum

Posted on August 04, 2010
Jamie Abrams at American University has published "A Synergistic Pedagogical Approach to First-Year Teaching". In her own words, here?s a challenge to re-think the 1L curriculum: ?The First ?Colonial Frontier? Legal Writing Conference, held at Duquesne University School of Law,...

AAUP fall conference on shared governance

Posted on August 04, 2010
The AAUP is hosting a conference on shared governance, November 12-14, 2010, in Washington, D.C. Its Committee on College & University Governance is currently seeking proposals for paper presentations on any topic relating to college and university governance...

Appellate Advocacy Committee of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section

Posted on August 03, 2010
The Appellate Advocacy Committe of the ABA Section on Tort Trial and Insurance Practice is sponsoring a number of events this week at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association. On Friday, August 6, 2010, the committee will hold...

the power of storytelling in the law

Posted on August 03, 2010
Boldly eschewing the standard law journal format, Lorie Graham and Stephen McJohn, both professors at Suffolk U. Law School, have written "Thirty Two Short Stories About Intellectual Property". In their own words, here's why they took the storytelling approach: "In...

Poster Presentation Proposals for the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco

Posted on August 02, 2010
Here's a reminder abou the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research, which sponsors posters every year to be displayed at the AALS annual conference in January. These posters provide a great opportunity for authors...

SEALS Conference Considers the Status of Legal Writing Professors

Posted on August 02, 2010
The Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) is holding its 2010 Annual Conference at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. On Sunday, one of the best-attended panels was ?The Status of Legal Writing Faculty in the Academy.? . Stephanie Vaughan...

Legal Writing Professors at the SEALS Conference

Posted on July 31, 2010
Many legal writing professors are attending and presenting at the SEALS Conference happening right now in Palm Beach, Florida. The Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Conference continues until August 5, 2010. On Saturday the programs included a session on...

new issue of J. ALWD

Posted on July 31, 2010
The full text of Volume 7 of J. ALWD, the Metaphor & Narrative issue, is now available on the J. ALWD website. There's lots of interesting reading and ideas there folks. Congratulations to editors Joan Ames Magat (at Duke) and...

COCAL IX

Posted on July 30, 2010
The Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor is holding its 9th bi-ennial conference in Quebec City from August 13 to 15, 2010. The topics to be addressed include many familiar ones for the disproportionate number of legal writing professors who are...

the two stories in every case

Posted on July 30, 2010
During Orientation, my Teaching Assistants help to teach the new first-year law students how to read and brief a case. I like to give the TA?s a short essay I wrote on how to keep straight the difference between the...

how much is a good editor worth?

Posted on July 29, 2010
Most legal writers appreciate how valuable a second set of eyes can be for finetuning any document. Now it turns out that, according to one study, a good editor may strengthen the impact of your writing by 30%. hat tip:...

Weigold to Wisconsin

Posted on July 29, 2010
The University of Wisconsin Law School has announced that Ursula Weigold is its new Director of Legal Research and Writing. Ursula has been active in LWI and DIRCON for many years. She directed and taught in the programs at South...

Scott Fruehwald, a legal writing

Posted on July 28, 2010
Scott Fruehwald, a legal writing professor at Hofstra, has written An Introduction to Behavioral Biology for Legal Scholars. As he explains in his abstract: "Over the last ten years, behavioral biology has become an important tool for legal scholars. In...

quotable

Posted on July 28, 2010
?Teaching legal writing is like dropping someone in the middle of China and telling them to learn Chinese, and, by the way, no one around you is speaking it correctly.? - Terri Pollman hat tip: Cathren Koehlert (spl)

Abolish Tenure?

Posted on July 27, 2010
The American Bar Association Section on Legal Education has a Standards Review Committee that proposed eliminating the word "tenure" from the ABA standards covering job security and academic freedom. The Committee also wants to abolish the a requirement that law...

A New Video Explains the New Website for the Federal Register

Posted on July 27, 2010
If you want your students to know about the Federal Register for researching proposed regulations and amendments to existing regulations, you may lament the lack of classroom time when there are so many other things to teach as well. But...

Teaching How to Research Proposed Federal Regulations

Posted on July 27, 2010
Do you teach students how to research federal regulations? Do you teach them how to find not only a current regulation but also how to see proposed changes to federal regulations that may affect their future clients? Well have your...

Scribes Luncheon During the ABA Meeting in San Francisco

Posted on July 27, 2010
Scribes--The American Society of Legal Writers--will hold its annual luncheon during the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco. This year's speaker will be Professor Pamela S. Karlan, founder of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford University School...

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