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LWI Biennial Conference
The 12th Biennial Conference of the
Legal Writing Institute took place from June 7 to 10, 2006
in Atlanta, Georgia. All information about this conference and other
LWI conferences can be found on the Biennial
Conference page.
Other LW-Related Conferences
The Center for Excellence in Advocacy, in collaboration with Washburn's
Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing Program, proudly announces
the second Writing to Win Symposium.
This year's topic is Plain Language Jury
Instructions. The symposium will begin with an opening reception
at Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center in Topeka, Kansas, on Sunday
evening, April 6, with presentations and CLE events planned for
Monday,April 7, and Tuesday morning, April 8, 2008. Keynote speaker
for the event will be The Honorable Carol Corrigan, Associate Justice
of the California Supreme Court, who chaired the California Judicial
Council Task Force on Jury Instructions from 1997 to 2005. For more
information, click here.
This year's Society of American Law
Teachers teaching conference will be on March 14 & 15
at the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley
Boalt Hall. The theme is "Teaching
for Social Change" and brings together over 60 academics
to discuss the how, what, and whether of infusing law school curricula
with the ideals of social justice.
The opening plenary has an inspirational tone: Liberation, Hope,
and Teaching for Social Change and features activist Eva Jefferson
Paterson, President, Equal Justice Society; The Honorable Cruz Reynoso,
Former California Supreme Court Justice & Professor, U.C. Davis
School of Law; and Howard Pinderhughes, University of California
at San Francisco. Friday's luncheon speaker is Linda Darling-Hammond,
Charles Ducommon Professor of Education, Stanford University, Co-Director,
School Redesign Network, and author of "The Right to Learn."
For more information, click here.
Emory Law School's Center for Transactional
Law & Practice will host a conference, entitled
"Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills: The Basics and
Beyond," on May 30 and May 31, 2008. The programs will
include sessions for beginning, experienced, and potential teachers
of drafting and other transactional skills. Information on registration
and hotels will be posted on the Emory website Early March. For
more information, click here.
Regional LW Conferences
2008 Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing
Conference will be held in Salt Lake City, on March 21-22,
2008. The University of Utah S.J. Quinney
College of Law is hosting the conference this year. The conference
will be held on campus at the University Guest House and Conference
Center, a collection of beautiful, late 19th century buildings completely
remodeled for the 2002 Winter Olympics. There is also a block of
rooms at the Marriott University Park Hotel within walking distance
to the conference site. Registration begins Friday at noon, with
a full schedule of presentations beginning at 1:30 on Friday and
continuing until 5:00 on Saturday. The featured plenary speaker
will be Marc Galanter, author of the highly regarded "Lowering
the Bar" and a leading figure in the empirical study of the
legal system. For more information, click here.
International LW Conferences
Third Global Legal Skills Conference,
planned in Monterrey, Mexico on February 28 to March 1, 2008. Information
about the conference is available at www.fldm.edu.mx.
This conference was held the first two times in Chicago, and it
now moves to Mexico. (In 2009 it will be at Georgetown). More than
100 presenters over three days, surveying a wide range of skills,
methods, and materials for those who teach students who speak English
as a second language. Other skills are also covered in this comprehensive
international conference. Contact Prof. Mark Wojcik at The John
Marshall Law School in Chicago at
7wojcik@jmls.edu or (312) 987-2391 for more information. Some
openings are still available for panel moderators.
Other Conferences
Humanizing Legal Education Symposium:
October 19-20, 2007, Washburn University School of Law: The
dean and faculty of Washburn University School of Law, the editors
of the Washburn Law Journal and the Conference Planning Committee
are pleased to solicit law
review article and presentation proposals for a symposium/conference
October 19-20, 2007 at Washburn University School of Law in Topeka,
Kansas. The program will begin with a welcome dinner Friday evening,
October 19 and conclude with a dinner and social event on Saturday
evening, October 20. Attendees should plan to arrive Friday afternoon
and to leave Sunday morning, October 21. Please contact Professor
Schwartz if you would like more information on the symposium.
If you are involved in planning or publicizing an upcoming
legal writing conference, please contact the Legal Writing Institute
website committee by emailing Dan Real at DReal@creighton.edu
about having your conference added to this page.
In addition to the conference information appearing on this
page, there is a listing of upcoming legal writing conferences at:
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwriting/2007/05/upcoming_confer.html
and a list of law-related conferences at http://depts.washington.edu/lawref/confblog/.
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