The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute
www.journallegalwritinginstitute.org
Goals and Scope
Background
Submitting an Article to Legal Writing
Articles about Pedagogy
Upcoming Volumes
Past Volumes
Editorial Board
Assistant Editors
Materials for Editors
Goals and Scope
The goal of the Legal Writing Institute is to encourage a broader
understanding of legal writing and the teaching of it. To further
that goal, the Institute publishes Legal Writing: The Journal of
the Legal Writing Institute, a peer-edited Journal that provides
a forum for an exchange of scholarly ideas and opinions about legal
writing. Legal Writing publishes articles, empirical research, book
reviews, and critical commentary from persons interested in the
theory and the practice of legal writing, in composition, rhetoric
and linguistic theory, in the design of courses and curricula, and
in teaching and learning theory as applied in the classroom and
practice.
Background
The Legal Writing Institute established the Journal in 1988 as
a forum for the developing discipline of legal writing. Christopher
Rideout of the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now Seattle
University School of Law) served as the Journal’s first Editor-in-Chief.
Unlike most other legal journals, which are student-edited, Legal
Writing is a peer-reviewed journal. The Editorial Board includes
some of the leading scholars and academics in the field of legal
writing. Since 1997, the Journal has alternated more traditional
issues with a proceedings issue that includes articles based on
presentations at the renowned Legal Writing Institute biennial summer
conferences. New volumes of the Journal typically are published
in the fall of each year.
Submitting an Article
to Legal Writing
If you wish to submit an article to Legal Writing, please send
two digital copies to James B. Levy at levyj@nsu.law.nova.edu.
The first copy should be the standard version of the document. In
the second copy, please remove all indications of authorship, including
the name(s) of the author(s), acknowledgment footnotes that reference
an author’s school, and text or footnotes that reference the
program at an author’s school by name. Because deleting text
or footnotes may change the meaning of the piece, the author(s)
can certainly substitute words such as “my school” “the
author,” etc. as appropriate. WordPerfect, MSWord, and PDF
files are all acceptable. If sending digital versions is not practical,
please make other arrangements by contacting James B. Levy by phone
or by mail at the address below:
Professor James B. Levy
Nova Southeastern University School of Law Shepard Broad Law Center
3305 College Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314
E-mail: levyj@nsu.law.nova.edu
Office: (954) 262-6012
Fax: (954) 262-3835
Members of the Editorial Board review all articles submitted to
the Journal. Articles that receive an affirmative vote of the majority
of editors are accepted for publication. As a general matter, the
Board is looking for well documented articles that our readership
will appreciate either as original theory or as practical pedagogy.
Past Journal editors have developed guidelines for the editing
process that we believe may help authors to understand some aspects
of the Journal’s decision-making process. Before submission,
therefore, authors may wish to consult the Journal’s “Procedures
for Editors.” When making citation and style decisions for
your submission, please consult the most recent edition and printing
of the ALWD Citation Manual (Aspen Publishers), and the most recent
edition of The Redbook (West).
Authors are typically notified about the Board’s decision
within four weeks after submission. Two members of the Editorial
Board work with each author in the publication process; in addition,
one or more Assistant Editors also may work on technical aspects
of the piece.
When an article is accepted for publication, the author should
be prepared to supply the editors with copies of all difficult-to-find
sources, which we define as materials that cannot be located easily
on Westlaw, LEXIS, the Internet, or in a law library. Examples of
materials that authors would need to supply include, but are not
limited to, non-legal sources, e-mail messages and other unpublished
material, out-of-print material, conference and CLE material, foreign
sources, survey results, and interview transcripts or summaries.
Articles about Pedagogy
While the Journal publishes articles that highlight legal writing
pedagogy, the Journal is usually not interested in articles that
are merely descriptive of teaching techniques; instead, it seeks
articles that include unique and novel pedagogical ideas presented
within the relevant theoretical context. For example, the author(s)
might identify and analyze a theoretical basis for the pedagogy
and then explain how the teaching method is congruent with or takes
the next step in advancing this educational theory. We are particularly
interested in articles that expand on the existing literature and
thus reflect a novel approach to an existing problem. By providing
citations to authorities that document this theoretical basis (or
other appropriate context), authors help our readers to better understand
the piece and also help scholars conducting research on pedagogy
to find and benefit from legal writing scholarship more easily.
Upcoming Volumes
Volume 11, an LWI conference proceedings issue, was published during
the summer of 2006. Volume 12, which will include a symposium on
the relevance of the writing-across-the-curriculum movement to legal
education, will be published in Spring 2007. Volume 13 will be a
proceedings issue based on the 2006 LWI Conference in Atlanta; it
will be published in the Fall of 2007. We are presently accepting
manuscripts for Volume 14 which will include articles from the Summer
2007 symposium in England on applied storytelling and the law.
Past Volumes
Volume 11, the proceedings issue from the 2004 LWI conference has
been published. Volume 12 and 13, the proceedings from the 2006
conference, are in progress. Click here to see a
complete list of the articles and authors included in volumes
1 through 11, in reverse chronological order, beginning with Volume
11.
Editorial Board
Board Membership
Policies
The current editorial board consists of the following members:
James B. Levy - Editor in Chief
Nova Southeastern University School of Law
levyj@nsu.law.nova.edu
Kristin Gerdy - Assistant Editor
in Chief
J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
gerdyk@lawgate.byu.edu
Brooke Bowman - Managing Editor
Stetson University College of Law
bowman@law.stetson.edu
Mary Garvey Algero
Loyola University (New Orleans) School of Law
algero@loyno.edu
Mary Beth Beazley
The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law
beazley.1@osu.edu
Kenneth D. Chestek
Indiana University School of Law -- Indianapolis
kchestnek@iupui.edu
Kirsten K. Davis
Arizona State University College of Law
kirsten.davis@asu.edu
Elizabeth Fajans
Brooklyn Law School
elizabeth.fajans@brooklaw.edu
Judith D. Fischer
University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
judith.fischer@louisville.edu
Kristin Gerdy - Assistant
J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
gerdyk@lawgate.byu.edu
Steve Johansen
Lewis and Clark Law School
tvj@lclark.edu
Samantha A. Moppett
Suffolk University Law School
smoppett@suffolk.edu
David T. Ritchie
Mercer University School of Law
ritchie_dt@mercer.edu
Joel M. Schumm
Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis
jmschumm@iupui.edu
Kathryn M. Stanchi
Temple University School of Law
kathryn.stanchi@temple.edu
Grace C. Tonner
University of Michigan Law School
gracet@umich.edu
Christine M. Venter
Notre Dame Law School
cventer@nd.edu
Catherine J. Wasson
Widener University School of Law
cwasson@widener.edu.
Assistant Editors
Kamela Bridges
University of Texas School of Law
Leah M. Christensen
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Kim Flanery Coats
University of Arkansas
Lurene Contento
The John Marshall Law School, Chicago
Rachel Croskery-Roberts
University of Michigan Law School
Michelle Cue
The John Marshall Law School
Kirsten Dauphinais
University of North Dakota School of Law
Jim Dimitri
Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis
Raúl Fernández-Calienes
St. Thomas University School of Law
Lisa Mazzie Hatlen
Marquette University Law School
Jill Koch Hayford
Marquette University Law School
Beth Honetschlager
Hamline University School of Law
Barbara A. Kalinowski
Ave Maria School of Law
Melissa J. Marlow
Southern Illinois University School of Law
Allison Martin
Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis
Jennifer W. Mathews
Emory University School of Law
Kathleen A. Miller
Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center
Myra G. Orlen
Western New England College School of Law
Lisa Penland
Drake University Law School
Sharon A. Pocock
Touro College
Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Kathryn A. Sampson
University of Arkansas
Wayne Schiess
University of Texas School of Law
Kevin Shelley
Gonzaga University School of Law
Amy Stein
Hofstra University School of Law
David Thomson
University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
Susan E. Thrower
DePaul University College of Law
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