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U.S. News and World Report Rankings

Posted on March 28, 2008
U.S. News and World Report released its latest rankings in a free on-line version. Click here to see it. As you might expect, the website will allow you to purchase the premium version of the rankings. The Adjunct Law Prof...

dressing for the occasion

Posted on March 27, 2008
On Tuesday, March 25, Attorney General Michael Mukasey made his first oral argument to the United States Supreme Court, in United States v. Ressam. According to reports, the Court was cold until he was five minutes into his argument, and...

appellate lawyers on the light side

Posted on March 27, 2008
So many appellate blogs are dedicated to case summaries, but some also provide great entertainment. Take, for example, the Texas State Bar Appellate Blog, which has posted the results of past contests for lyrics, haiku, and limericks (these must be...

Thesis Paragraphs (Susan Hanley Duncan)

Posted on March 27, 2008
Here's a short bar journal article on thesis paragraphs written by Susan Hanley Duncan of the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. The article appeared in Kentucky Bench and Bar. It might make a good handout for...

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AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research

Posted on March 26, 2008
How many professors are members of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research? The number may surprise you: 1,634, making it the third largest section within the AALS. Only two AALS Sections have larger....

AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research - Committees

Posted on March 26, 2008
The Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research is one of the largest sections in the Association of American Law Schools. The Section does its work through six committees. 1. The Program Committee, which takes charge of the program at...

U.S. Professors of the Year

Posted on March 26, 2008
Nominate an outstanding professor for the U.S. Professor of the Year Award. Get details on the award and nomination process at www.usprofessorsoftheyear.org. The deadline for the 2008 awards is April 18, 2008. (mew)

AALS Invites Proposals on Race and Gender in the Legal Profession

Posted on March 26, 2008
The Association of American Law Schools invites proprosals from law faculty who want to present on the topic "Progress? The Academy, The Profession, Race and Gender: Empirical Findings, Research Issues, Potential Projects, and Funding Opporuntunities...

hottest show in town?

Posted on March 26, 2008
More proof that the public loves oral argument (and would love to watch broadcasts), even if the Supreme Court does not: Rather than stand in line for hours for the mere chance to get inside, now people are offering money...

more on conference: Rocky Mountain Conference Tackles Flow Charts

Posted on March 25, 2008
Hillary Burgess, an adjunct professor at Rowan and Rutgers Universities, presented "Using Flow Charts Strategically to To Reach Multiple Learning Styles." In the presentation, she gave an overview of both Visual, Aural, Kinesthetic (VAK)-based learning style theories and Myers-Briggs (MBTI)-based...

searching for the best law professors in the country

Posted on March 25, 2008
This is a request from Michael Hunter Schwartz of Washburn University School of Law. ********** Dear Colleagues, I am in search of the best law teachers in this country, and I could use your help. I have the extraordinary opportunity...

The Syllabus as a Student-Teacher Contract, Now Including Legalese

Posted on March 25, 2008
A front-page story in the March 14 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education laments that "the contemporary syllabus is becoming more like a legal document, full of all manor of exhortations, proscriptions, and enunciations of class and institutional policy--often...

Ghostwriting by Suspended Attorney Leads to Permanent Loss of a Law License

Posted on March 24, 2008
The Legal Profession Blog tells us of a new decision from the Supreme Court of Iowa, where an attorney under an order of suspension was found to be "ghostwriting" pleadings. The court condemned the ghostwriting as conduct involving dishonesty and...

Objectivity in Law - A Conference in Texas

Posted on March 24, 2008
The Deparment of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin holds a conference on "Objectivity in Law" on April 4-5, 2008. Contact Michael Sevel or visit the webpage for the University of Texas Department of Philosophy for more information...

Law Student Video Contest -$10,000 for up to 4 Minutes Showing Law Student Angst

Posted on March 24, 2008
Access Group, a non-profit student loan company, is sponsoring a contest for law students to create the best law student vidieo of their worries in law school. Access Group will pick the top ten videos and then open up public...

SALT Seeks Nominees for "Great Teacher" Award

Posted on March 24, 2008
The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) is seeking nominees for its ?Great Teacher? award, which will be presented at the SALT Annual Dinner on January 9, 2009 in San Diego (in conjunction with the AALS Annual Meeting). Email nominations...

AALS Invites Open Source Proposals

Posted on March 24, 2008
The Association of American Law Schools invites all law professors to propose "open source" programs for the 2009 Annual Meeting in San Diego. Open source programs are those that are not sponsored by any AALS Section. It is meant to...

next session at Rocky Mountain . . .

Posted on March 23, 2008
Carrie Sperling (Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University) spoke on "Using Psychology to Inform What We Teach Students to Write." She discussed research in the behavioral sciences and how it should influence how we think about writing...

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities

Posted on March 23, 2008
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities will hold its 11th annual meeting March 28-29, 2008 at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. For a copy of the final...

Values in Higher Education

Posted on March 22, 2008
March 31 is the deadline for applications to participate in the annual summer workshop sponsored by the Society for Values in Higher Education. The summer workshop will be held in July at the College of Notre Dame. Click here for...

Must Law Professors Blog?

Posted on March 21, 2008
The New York Times published a story yesterday on The Professor as Open Book, noting that professors of all ranks and disciplines are revealing a great deal of personal information on blogs, web pages, Facebook and other social networking sites,...

workshop for visually impaired attorneys and law students

Posted on March 21, 2008
The Law Librarian Blog posts news about an upcoming disability law seminar in Baltimore, Maryland. A featured day-long workshop on April 10, 2008, is for visually impaired lawyers and law students, covering research using Westlaw and assistive technologies...

the Question Presented: one sentence or several?

Posted on March 21, 2008
In a new post to his legal writing blog, University of Texas prof Wayne Schiess has thrown down the gauntlet, asking for defenders of the single-sentence Question Presented to demonstrate why that traditional form of issue statement is better than...

not a truffling matter

Posted on March 21, 2008
I had to laugh when I read the West Headnote of the Day from Gardner v. First American Title Ins. Co., 218 F.R.D. 216 (D. Minn. 2003): Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs, and judges...

report from Rocky Mountain regional conference

Posted on March 21, 2008
The Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference began today in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah. I started the afternoon with a session on "Getting Past Google: Tips for Teaching Electronic Legal Research" by Shawn Nevers, from BYU. He...

oral argument: a bouquet of links

Posted on March 20, 2008
With the coming of spring, first-year law students around the country will soon blossom into appellate advocates arguing their first appeals. Much good advice for oral argument resides on the Internet, and we've provided links to many good sites around...

New Nutshell on Legal Citation

Posted on March 19, 2008
Larry L. Teply of Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska has published a new book on legal citation for the Thomson Nutshell Series. Legal Writing Citation in a Nutshell covers ALWD and Bluebook formats. The book includes appendices...

Practicing Plagiarism

Posted on March 18, 2008
Professor David Sorkin of The John Marshall Law School observes that "[i]n the practice of law, the wholesale copying of others' words and ideas seems to happen all the time." But he notes that lawyers have an ethical responsibility to...

status of Senate Bill to mandate broadcasts of Supreme Court arguments

Posted on March 17, 2008
In January 2007, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) co-sponsored a bi-partisan bill aimed at requiring the Supreme Court to televise oral arguments. See Sen. 344, 110th Cong. (Jan. 25, 2007). (Co-sponsors were Senators Grassley, Durbin, Schumer, Feingold, and Cornyn...

legal writing in Ireland

Posted on March 17, 2008
In observance of St. Patrick's Day, let's visit the National University of Ireland, Galway, whose website features an interesting legal writing style sheet. Intended for writers of essays on legal topics, the style sheet discusses topics such as structure, citation,...

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