Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference
Conference Program
Friday, April 15, 2011
8:30 – 12:00 p.m. ALWD Scholars’ Workshop & Forums
Seminar F and Webb Room
Supported by ALWD
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Registration & Lunch
Main Lobby
1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Opening Colloquium
Courtroom
Feminist Readings of Law: Feminist Writing in Law
(www.law.mercer.edu/selwc/schedule)
Keynote: Prof. Martha Albertson Fineman, Emory Law School
Panel: Susan L. Brody, Professor of Law, John Marshall Law School
Gregory Johnson, Director of Legal Writing & Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
Margaret Johnson, Assistant Professor & Co-Director, Center on Applied Feminism,
University of Baltimore School of Law
Andrea McArdle, Professor & Director of Legal Writing, CUNY School of Law
Teri McMurtry-Chubb, Director of Legal Analysis and Writing & Assistant Professor of Law,
LaVerne College of Law
Teresa Godwin Phelps, Director of Legal Rhetoric & Professor of Law, American University
(Washington College of Law)
Kathryn Stanchi, Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Opening Reception
Sponsored by Wolters-Kluwer
Saturday, April 16, 2011 Opening the Lens Concurrent Sessions
8:45 – 9:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:15 - 10:10 a.m. Session 1
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The Memorandum Is Not Dead (Yet): A Case for Teaching Both Traditional Legal Memoranda and Non-Traditional Forms of Communication in the First Year Legal Writing Program Julie Schwartz Karen Cooper Lesley Carroll |
Using Effective Formative Assessment Techniques Designed to Make our Students Lifelong Learners Anthony Niedwiecki
Using a Battery of Tests to Measure the “Learning-to-Learn Skills of Law Students: Identifying Areas for Educational Interventions—Especially in Writing—and Assessing the Effectiveness of the Instruction |
Where the Road Forks: The Art of Creating and Telling a Client’s Story at the Trial Court Versus Appellate Court Heather Zuber |
Opening the Lens of Otherness Through the Legacy of Virginia Woolf: Stories and Lessons in Feminist Legal Theory Susan L. Brody |
10:15 – 11:15 a.m. Session 2
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Opening the Lens through Universal Design of the Legal Writing Course Jennifer Jolly-Ryan
Emergence, Adaptivity, and Legal Skills Pedagogy |
“And the Winner is . . .”: How the Principles of Cognitive Science Resolve the Plain Language Debate Julie A. Baker
Thinking about Unthinking: Incorporate the Lessons of Cognition into Our Training of Young Lawyers |
Metaphorical Dissonance: The Uses and Misuses of Musical Language in the Law Ian Gallacher |
11:30 -12:30 p.m. Session 3
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Taking the Discussion in a New Direction: Have Lawyers in the Academy Forsaken Their Ethical Obligations to Strengthen Legal Education with Practical Skills Instruction? Scott Sigman
Bridging the Gap between Doctrinal Learning and Skills Training—Incorporating skills across the curriculum and creating legal writing problems which employ doctrinal learning. |
Made Ya Look – Using Storytelling to Demonstrate How Detail Persuades Jennifer Lear
Bringing Theory to Practice: How Legal Writing Scholarship Can Help Practicing Lawyers Write Better Factual Narratives |
Destroying the “Myth of Transience”: Approaching Legal Writing as Disciplinary Writing Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb |
Structuring the First Few Weeks of a 1L J.D. Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis Course Conrad Sturm
Judicial Opinion Writing and Giving Students a View from the Bench |
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Sponsored by LexisNexis
Courtroom -- LexisNexis Technology Session
1:30 – 2:25 p.m. Session 4
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From Looking to Seeing: Using Drawing Techniques to Access the Visual Systems of the Brain to Improve Legal Writing Skills Elizabeth Megale Susan Bendlin |
Narrative Implications of Evidentiary Rules Bruce Ching
What Lincoln Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion |
Re-Visioning Student Problem Solving: Using Problem-Based Service Learning to Teach Legal Research, Analysis and Writing Tracy Bach |
The Court as a Communicator: How the Supreme Court Uses Opinions to Communicate with Parties, Lawyers, Judges, and the Public Lisa McElroy |
2:45 – 3:40 p.m. Session 5
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Still Crazy After All These Years? Feminism & Legal Education Linda Berger
Is Law School Still “An Education by and for Men”? |
Law Teaching in Three Dimensions: Constitutional Doctrine, Legislative Procedure, and Rule Drafting J. Lyn Entrikin Goering |
An Introduction to New Criticism’s Relevance to Legal Writing Susan Bay
Interpreting the Internet through the Eyes of a Historian: What Law Students (and Law Professors) Can Learn from the Research Techniques of Historians |
“Triaging the Missing Semester”: Transitioning Students from Objective to Persuasive Writing on a Tight Class Schedule Kimberly Boone Scott England Mary Ksobiech Gary Sullivan |
3:45 – 4:15 p.m. Session 6
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A Rose By Any Other Name: Rhetorical Analysis of Genre Karen J. Sneddon |
YouTube Pedagogy: A Practical Guide John F. Murphy |
Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law - 1021 Georgia Avenue Macon, Georgia 31207
