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:
Charge: To investigate and make recommendations among the various options for meeting LWI’s administrative needs.
Board liaison:
Alison Julien
Charge: To identify nominees and to assess and recommend to the Board recipients of the Golden Pen, Courage, Mary Lawrence, and Hecht awards. Also, to coordinate tokens of appreciation to outgoing LWI Board members and outgoing LWI Journal Board members at the biennial conference. The Committee may also be given responsibility for coordinating awards presentations and for establishing a nomination and recommendation process for any other award authorized by the Board.
Board liaison:
Charge: To enhance relationships and understandings between legal writing and clinical faculty; to share clinic pedagogies with legal writing faculty; to identify and implement ways that legal writing and clinical faculty can actively work together to improve the quality of experiential education in law schools; and to propose a presentation of these at the next LWI biennial.
Board liaison:
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.
All LWI members are welcome to join the Diversity Initiatives Committee.
Board liaison:
Charge: (1) To develop resources to improve global legal skills education of foreign law students studying in the U.S. and U.S. law students; and (2) to promote acquiring global legal skills as a learning outcome in U.S. legal education.
Board liaison:
Charge: To maintain the membership list of the listserv, to disseminate the LWI newsletter, to monitor listserv usage policies and listserv usage, 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 organize and coordinate LWI’s One-Day Workshops and to identify and implement initiatives to develop and promote future workshops.
Board liaison:
Charge: To support LGBTQ faculty and to strengthen the inclusion of diverse perspectives in the legal writing classroom.
All LWI members are welcome to join the Pink Ink Committee.
Board liaison:
Charge: To identify and implement ways to promote legal writing as an integral part of legal education in undergraduate and other pre-law programs.
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 provide resources and mentoring activities to foster and support professional development and leadership growth by legal writing professors; to prepare a presentation proposal on this topic for the next LWI biennial.
Board liaison:
Charge: To provide outreach and resources to foster and support scholarship by legal writing professors; to find innovative ways to promote legal writing scholarship, including through co-sponsored workshops and symposia; and to collaborate with the joint Scholarship Grants committee to facilitate mentoring relationships.
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.
Board liaison:
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, including upper-level writing courses, outcomes assessment measures, and emerging plagiarism issues; to collect, develop, and evaluate resources that address additional subject matters and newer methods of communicating with students; and to coordinate the transition of teaching resource materials to the redesigned website.
Board liaison:
Charge: To oversee maintenance and updating of the existing LWI website (www.lwionline.org); to coordinate with other LWI committees to ensure that the content on the website is updated regularly; to coordinate LWI’s social media programs; and to work towards a smooth transition to the newly redesigned website.
Board liaison:
Charge: To carry out a redesign of the existing website and assist the Website and Social Media Committee in the transition to the new website.