The Teaching Bank is an online resource center. It includes writing problems and exercises, syllabi, grading rubrics, teaching ideas, and other materials. Access to the Teaching Bank is professional teachers of legal writing.
LWI has nearly 3,000 members. Members represent all ABA-accredited law schools in the United States as well as law schools in other countries. LWI members also come from undergraduate schools and universities, the practicing bar and the judiciary, and independent research-and-consulting organizations. Anyone who is interested in legal writing or the teaching of legal writing may join LWI.
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Teaching Bank MembershipThis workshop seeks to promote the discipline of legal writing through impactful research and scholarly engagement. We seek proposals on topics such as: Empirical Research 101 - what is it, qualitative v quantitative, why is it important in legal writing scholarship, types of legal writing topics that lend themselves to empirical exploration, etc.; Empirical Research 102 - Reading and Assessing Empirical Legal Research - tools to critically engage and evaluate empirical scholarship; Thinking through the design of an empirical research project; how to conduct qualitative empirical legal research; how to conduct quantitative empirical legal research; Do's and Don’ts of designing survey questions; Sharing your empirical research experience; the role of AI in empirical research; Using Empirical Legal Research to Develop a Research Agenda - data sets to identify unanswered/unexplored questions and issues; Resources for Empirical Legal Research - internal and external, technology, personnel, tapping into the expertise of law librarians, etc.; and The Institutional Review Board (IRB) Process - what is an IRB, when do you need approval, steps for getting that approval.