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 MembershipBoard liaison:
Board liaison:
Charge: To identify nominees and assess and recommend to the Board recipients of the Golden Pen, Courage, Mary Lawrence, and Hecht awards.
Board liaison:
Charge: To gather information on the growing need for and provision of academic support programs in law schools and recommend ways in which LWI can partner with ASP faculty to further LWI's mission.
Charge: To foster and support diversity and inclusion in legal writing education by supporting legal writing faculty of color, LGBTQ legal writing faculty, legal writing faculty with disabilities, and the inclusion of a diversity of perspectives in the legal writing classroom.
Board liaison:
Charge: To develop resources to improve global legal skills education of international law students studying in the U.S. and promote global legal skills in U.S. legal education.
Board liaison:
Charge: To maintain the membership list of the listserv, to monitor listserv usage and policies, and, when necessary, to remind users to observe listserv policies.
Board liaison:
Charge: To produce and disseminate periodic newsletters exploring and
communicating the emerging identity of LWI and its members.
Board liaison:
Charge: To gather and disseminate information about moot court programs and competitions, including collection and coordination of lists of programs and banks of moot court problems; and to foster more scholarship and presentations about topics relevant to moot court, for example, through the Moot Court Advisors Conference.
Board liaison:
Charge: To welcome new members into the LWI community through such efforts as outreach activities at legal writing and other conferences, and to assist new members in identifying legal writing resources and finding ways to become more involved in service and leadership positions.
Board liaison:
Charge: To identify and implement ways to foster faculty engagement with social justice concerns, including collaboration with bar associations, reshaping legal writing curricula around social justice themes, and supporting faculty pro bono work.
Board liaison:
Charge: To promote LWI and its mission to improve the teaching and quality of legal communication through social media.
Board liaison:
Charge: To recommend and implement collaborative projects with SALT that further LWI's mission.
Charge: To provide outreach and resources to foster and support scholarship by legal writing professors and encourage scholarly collaborations with the larger legal academy.
Board liaison:
Charge: To mentor emerging scholars seeking scholarship grants and to assess and recommend to the ALWD and LWI Boards recipients of the joint scholarship grants.
Charge: To publish short, readable, lightly footnoted essays and articles related to teaching legal research and writing that combine theory with practical experience and personal insight three times per year.
Charge: To coordinate with all legal writing-related publications to increase quality and consumption of legal writing scholarship and to help build the discipline of legal writing.
Charge: To conduct an annual survey of legal writing programs and to report the results to the membership.
Board liaison:
Charge: To provide outreach and resources to foster and support the teaching of legal writing and supervise the LWI Teaching Bank.
Board liaison:
Charge: To oversee maintenance and updating of the LWI website.