Please review the schedule below before registering. Each presentation can be identified with a program code in parentheses following the title. We ask that you let us know which of the programs you are most likely to attend by noting the program codes on your registration form. If you have any questions about the program, please contact Co-Chairs Ruth Anne Robbins (ruthanne@camden.rutgers.edu) or Mel Weresh (melissaweresh@drake.edu).
Special Critiquing Workshop (Wednesday):
There will be a Critiquing Workshop on Wednesday of the conference that requires additional advance registration (the workshop will last from approximately 8:30am - 2:30pm):Workshop on Critiquing Student Work - Presented by Joan Malmud, University of Oregon. The Workshop on Critiquing Student Work is part of the New Teacher's Track. This workshop, based on Dan Barnett's Triage in the Trenches, 38 U Toledo L. Rev 651 (2007), is especially designed for newer teachers looking for hands-on suggestions from some of the Institute's most experienced teachers. The workshop will include:
The first draft: Critiquing organization and analysis Practice critique and small group discussion The rewrite: Critiquing writing skills This schedule includes a session on providing effective written feedback and small group break-out sessions during which participants will work together on critiquing student samples. Participants will receive materials to prepare for the workshop when they register.
Space is limited and advance registration is required. To register for the workshop, please fill out the registration form at: https://www.law.uoregon.edu/faculty/jmalmud/lwiworkshop.php.
POSTERS: Detailed information on posters can be found on the LWI Biennial Poster Committee Site, located on TWEN. To access the site, log onto TWEN, click on "Add a Course," and scroll down to "National TWEN Courses." Click on "LWI Biennial Poster Committee Site" and check the box to add the site to your TWEN courses.
Monday, July 14, 2008 Printable Schedule (PDF)
| 9:00am-12:30pm |
LWI Board Meeting
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| 2:00pm |
ALWD Membership Meeting
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| 5:00pm-7:00pm |
Opening Reception at the Indianapolis Artsgarden (sponsored by Thomson West) Scholarship & Awards Presentation, Poster Openings |
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Printable Schedule (PDF)
| 8:00am |
Breakfast, Welcome & Plenary in the Hyatt Regency Ballroom (sponsored by LexisNexis) Divine Secrets of the Ha-Ha Sisterhood Sheila Simon, Mary Beth Beazley, Hollee Temple [summary] |
| 9:30am |
Transfer to the IU School of Law-Indianapolis
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Session 1 - 10:30-11:00am
| T1A |
Advice From the Editors: Getting Your Legal Writing Article Published
James B. Levy, Kristin Gerdy, Coleen M. Barger, Michael R. Smith [summary] |
| T1B |
The Changing Nature of Legal Research and Legal Authority in the Electronic Age
Ellie Margolis [summary] |
| T1C |
An Exploration of the Elements of Expert Performance in Legal Writing
Shelly Kiierstead [summary] |
| T1D |
We're Quacking as Fast as We Can: Building a Tenure-Track Legal Writing Program from the Ground Up
Terry Seligmann, Kevin Oates, Emily Zimmerman [summary] |
| T1E |
Beyond Chalk and Talk: Active Learning Activities for the Classroom
Karen Sneddon [summary] |
| T1F |
Class in the Classroom
Lucille Jewel [summary] |
| T1G |
Using "Real World" Documents to Teach Persuasive Writing
Beth Hirschfelder Wilensky [summary] |
Session 2 - 11:30am-12:15pm
| T2A |
Responding to Academic Misconduct of Millennial Students
Tracy L. McGaugh [summary] |
| T2B |
Demystifying the SSRN Process: How to Make it Work for You
Susan H. Duncan [summary] |
| T2C |
"The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades": A Study of Hope, Optimism and Well-Being in Law School
Allison Martin & Kevin Rand [summary] |
| T2D |
Life-long Legal Writing: Developing Attorney Writing Skills Within Law Firm Practice
Kris Butler, Mike Cavanaugh, Kathleen Dillon Narko [summary] |
| T2E |
Law Students' Case Reading and Reasoning Study: Final Results and Tools for Legal Writing Teachers
Dorie Evensen & Jim Stratman [summary] |
| T2F |
Enhancing the Pedagogy of Oral Argument and First-Year Moot Court
Mary S. Lawrence, Thomas McDonnell, Henry T. Wihnyk [summary] |
| T2G |
The Science Behind the ADA
Suzanne E. Rowe [summary] |
| 12:15-1:30pm |
Lunch & Lunchtime Discussion Roundtables: • Legal Writing Professors of Color • Pink Ink • Moot Court Advisors |
Session 3 - 1:30-2:15pm
| T3A |
"Have You Got a Minute to Talk?": How Novice and Experienced Legal Writing Professors Can Learn From Each Other
Terry Pollman, Sara Gordon [summary] Forming a Clinical/Legal Writing Scholarship Colloquium Harriet N. Katz [summary] |
| T3B |
Accomplishment, Independence, and Assessment: Final Exams in the Legal Writing Context
Suzanne Rabe [summary] Incorporating Performance Exams into a Legal Writing Course Cristina Knolton [summary] |
| T3C |
Putting the R in LRW
Rebecca S. Trammell, Brooke J. Bowman [summary] |
| T3D |
Integration of Statutory-Interpretation Skills into Your Existing Writing and Analysis Curriculum: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Mark Burge, Roger Simon [summary] Analysis as More Than Case Synthesis: Teaching Statutory Analysis in a First Year Legal Writing Course E. Joan Blum [summary] |
| T3E |
Ethics and Professionalism in Legal Writing: Blawgs, Briefs, and Professional Identity
Carol McCrehan Parker, Judy M.Cornett, Penny J.White [summary] |
| T3F |
Posters: Detailed information on posters can be found on the LWI Biennial Poster Committee Site, located on TWEN. To access the site, log onto TWEN, click on “Add a Course,” and scroll down to “National TWEN Courses.” Click on “LWI Biennial Poster Committee Site” and check the box to add the site to your TWEN courses.
Portrait of a Writing Specialist Kim M. Baker [summary] Judges and Gender-Neutral Language: Whether They Use It and What We Can Learn from Their Practices Judith D. Fischer [summary] "Plays Well with Others": What Contract-drafting Exercises Can Teach First-Year Students about the Practice of Law and Themselves Travis Dale Jones, Rosemary L. Dillon [summary] Student Body Diversity: A View from the Trenches Gail S. Stephenson [summary] |
| T3G |
Advanced Writing Instruction in Small Group Sessions
David Ritchie, Suzianne Painter-Thorne, Jennifer Sheppard [summary] |
Session 4 - 2:30-3:15pm
| T4A |
Changing Schools, Changing Lives: How to Get Out There, Get Noticed, and Get the Job You Want
Linda Edwards, Lisa McElroy, Kirsten Davis, Molly Lien [summary] |
| T4B |
Bar Exam Prep Course Seeking Long Term Relationship: Legal Writing, Academic Support, Both, or Something Else
Ben Bratman, Susan Bakhshian [summary] |
| T4C |
Harnessing the Power of Nonverbal Persuasion: How You Can Make Your Students Better Advocates and Yourself a Better Teacher
Michael Higdon & Rebecca Scharf [summary] |
| T4D |
Sex, Lies, and Law Reviews: Uncovering the Mysteries of Those Who Have All the Power -- Student Editors
Julie Oseid, Leah M. Christensen [summary] |
| T4E |
Anatomy of an Appellate Brief Problem
Amy Neville [summary] Mapping The Way: A Guide to Creating Memorandum Assignments Judy Rosenbaum [summary] |
| T4F |
Grade Disputes: How to Prevent (or Win) Them
Melody Richardson Daily [summary] |
| T4G |
Engaging, Entertaining, and Effective: Using Handheld Response Pads in the Legal Methods Classroom
Susan Chesler, Ann Fruth, Amanda Smith [summary] |
| T4H |
Taking Off in a New Direction: Ground Rules and Flight Plans for Legal Writing Specialists
Mary Barnard Ray, Anne Enquist [summary] |
| 3:30pm |
• Association of Legal Writing Specialists Meeting • Board of Editors of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute • LWI Idea Bank Committee Meeting |
| 5:30pm |
New Member Dinners
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Session 5 - 8:00pm-9:30pm
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"Popcorn Sessions" These will be informal presentations with a lot of group conversations and interactions. The purpose is to foster more dialogue among conference attendees. These sessions will be conducted at the Hyatt hotel. | |
| T5A |
Live Grading
Mark E, Wojcik [summary] |
| T5B |
Publishing Books in LRW and Beyond: How We Did It and How You Can Too
Sarah Ricks, Michael D. Murray, Christy DeSanctis, Ruth Ann McKinney [summary] |
| T5C |
Racing to Excellence:
Beyond Caps and Long Term Contracts -- the Path to Full Status Darby Dickerson, Sue Liemer [summary] The Transition to a Directorless Program Susan DeJarnatt, Kim Flanery Coats, Daniel Barnett [summary] |
| T5D |
Additional Q&A about Journal of Legal Writing issues
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Printable Schedule (PDF)
| 8:15am-9:30am |
Breakfast at the Law School
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Session 1 - 9:30-10:15am
| W1A |
Geek 101: Using Technology Effectively (Without Having to Learn the Difference Between Star Wars and Star Trek)
Jan Levine, Kenneth D. Chestek, John Mollenkamp [summary] |
| W1B |
Taming Hubris: Using Feedback Theory to Ease the Triumphant Undergraduate Writers Transition to Novice Legal Writer
Sheila Rodriguez [summary] |
| W1C |
The Student Initiative
Jill Ramsfield [summary] |
| W1D |
"A Matter of Style": Preparing First-Year Law Students to Write to Audiences with Distinct and Diverse Stylistic Preferences
Jennifer Murphy Romig [summary] |
| W1E |
Mind the Gaps: Teaching Students to Recognize and Address Flaws in their Analysis
Christopher R. Trudeau [summary] |
| W1F |
Priming for Pro Bono and Public Service: LRW's Role
Deborah Schmedemann [summary] |
| W1G |
The Embedded Rule
David S. Romantz [summary] |
Session 2 - 10:30-11:15am
| W2A |
Playing With Fire: The Science of Confronting Negative Information in Persuasive Legal Writing
Kathy Stanchi [summary] |
| W2B |
Effective Methods for Teaching Legal Writing Online
David Thomson [summary] |
| W2C |
Clearly, Using Intensifiers Is Very Bad
Lance N. Long [summary] |
| W2D |
Teaching How Legal Writing Fits into Law Practice
Louis Sirico, Nancy Schultz, Libby White [summary] |
| W2E |
Techniques for Better Legal Drafting: Lessons from the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Joseph Kimble [summary] Lessons Learned from Administrative Law Writing Elizabeth Fajans [summary] |
| W2F |
Politics & Persuasion: Lessons in Logic & Argument from Political Communication
Kris Panikowski, Nicola Kean [summary] |
| W2G |
Religious Lawyering and Legal Writing, Or, Do Religious Perspectives Help Teach Students Anything About IRAC?
Ted Becker [summary] |
Session 3 - 11:30am-12:15pm
| W3A |
Developing a Methodology for Comparing Discourse Communities
Richard K. Neumann, Jr., Amy K. Langenfeld [summary] |
| W3B |
Teaching to Different Learning Styles in the LR&W Classroom
Catherine Cameron, Jeff Minneti, Robin A. Boyle [summary] |
| W3C |
From Aristotle to Abraham Lincoln to Clarence Darrow and Everything In Between: Bringing Persuasive Techniques Alive in the Classroom by Using and Analyzing Political Speeches, Courtroom Arguments, Supreme Court Briefs, and Historical Reenactments as Teaching Tools
Rachel Croskery-Roberts [summary] |
| W3D |
Podcasting in LRR&W: Downloading the Greatest Hits
Kathleen Elliott Vinson, Judith B. Tracy [summary] |
| W3E |
Teaching the Unwritten Rules of Lawyering
Ursula Weigold [summary] |
| W3F |
A Narrative Approach to Teaching Grammar
William E. Blais [summary] The “Grammar Bee” – Taking the Pain Out of One-Ls’ Grammatical Deficiencies Ed Telfeyan [summary] |
| W3G |
Using Live Cases to Teach Legal Research, Analysis, and Communication: Problem-Based Service Learning
Tracy Bach [summary] |
| 12:15-1:30pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30-2:15pm |
LWI Membership Meeting
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Session 4 - 2:30-3:15pm
| W4A |
ABA updates
Richard K. Neumann, Jr. ABA site teams Ralph Brill, Mary Beth Beazley |
| W4B |
Redesigning the Mold: An Alternative Approach to Teaching First Year Legal Skills
Amy Vorenberg, Sophie Sparrow et al. [summary] |
| W4C |
Legislative Writing: Why the "New" Legal Writing Frontier Should Be Explored
Meredith L. Schalick [summary] |
| W4D |
The YouTube of Professional Practice -- Instant Oral Advocacy Review and Feedback thru Revolutionary Web-Based Technology
Mark E. Hoch, Grace H. Barry, William Monroe [summary] |
| W4E |
Race and the Law School Classroom
William Y. Chin [summary] |
| W4F |
VoiceLynx - a PAR 83 course: Tee-ching Through Time Saving Technology
Linda J. Hiemer, Jan Wise [summary] |
| W4G |
Posters:
From One Part-Time Student to Another: A Lesson Plan From the Trenches Ann Picard [summary] Statutory Construction and the Life Cycle of Disability Definition Kathryn A. Sampson [summary] Illustrated Instruction: Using Images to Help Teach Basic Organizational Structures of Legal Writing Craig T. Smith [summary] |
Session 5 - 3:30-4:15pm
| W5A |
Getting Involved with LWI: Committee Fair
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| W5B |
Traveling with LWI (Writers Workshop, other conferences)
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| W5C |
Show Me the LWI Money (grants, innovations)
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| 6:00-11:00pm |
Dinner at the Eiteljorg Museum (sponsored by Aspen Publishers)
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 Printable Schedule (PDF)
| 8:15am-9:30am |
Breakfast at the Law School
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Session 1 - 9:30-10:15am
| R1A |
Defining the Purpose and Parameters of Scholarship for Legal Writing Professors
Mitchell Nathanson, Kristen Triscione, Linda Berger [summary] |
| R1B |
The Real World: Law School: Professionalism in Electronic Communication
Melissa H. Weresh, Lisa Penland [summary] |
| R1C |
Mapping Thoughts and Deepening Student Analysis Via Diagramming
Laurie C. Kadoch [summary] |
| R1D |
They're Not Enemies, They're Untapped Allies: Strategies for Handling Disruptive, Disaffected, and Plain-Old Bad Students
Allison Ortlieb, Susan Thrower [summary] |
| R1E |
Co-dependent No More? When Teaching Becomes Enabling
Lisa Eichorn, Jan Baker [summary] |
| R1F |
Finding Time for Scholarship
Dorothy Bisbee [summary] Grading: Using Spreadsheets and Rubrics Timothy D. Blevins, Brenda Gibson [summary] Effective and Efficient Electronic Commenting Christine E. Rollins [summary] |
| R1G |
Posters:
Connecting the Dots: Using Connected Legal Writing Assignments to Help Students Think outside the Assignment and About the Bigger Picture Candace Mueller Centeno [summary] Moving From First to Final Draft -- An Empirical Study on Motivating Students to Move Through the Writing Process Carol Wallinger [summary] Not-So-Magnificent Obsession: Performance vs. Professionalism Jennifer B. Horn [summary] |
Session 2 - 10:30-11:15am
| R2A |
Was Colonel Sanders a Terrorist? The Ethics of Storytelling in Litigation
Steve Johansen [summary] |
| R2B |
Effective Presentation of Statistics in Legal Writing
Danton Asher Berube [summary] |
| R2C |
"You Had Me at 'Hello'" -- Structuring the Classroom Experience to Optimize Learning
Wanda M. Temm, Barbara E. Wilson, Judith Popper [summary] |
| R2D |
Goodbye to Kingsfield? Increasing Student Autonomy in the Legal Writing Classroom
Deanne Lawrence Andrews [summary] |
| R2E |
Dealing with Race, Culture and Gender in the Classroom
Kathryn Mercer [summary] Gender and Law School Performance: How Legal Writing Professors Can Bolster the Performance of Women Law Students Christine Ventner [summary] |
| R2F |
Using Comparative Legal Principals to Teach International Students in U.S. Law
Teresa Brostoff, Ann Sisheimer [summary] Expanding Your Horizons: Going Global Marilyn Walter [summary] |
Session 3 - 11:30am-12:15pm
| R3A |
Beyond Powerpoint and Movie Clips: How to Reach Your Full Potential as a Teacher
Mary Garvey Algero, Robin Wellford Slocum [summary] |
| R3B |
Does Voice Exist in Legal Writing?
Chris Rideout [summary] |
| R3C |
Reality Bites or Does it? Incorporating Learning Theory and Student Expectations in Problem Design for a First-Year Writing Course
Julie Spanbauer, Sonia Bychkov Green, Maureen Kordesh [summary] |
| R3D |
Teaching Basic Contract Drafting to First Year Law Students in Four Hours or Less
Sue Payne [summary] Re-imagining Collaborate Learning: New Technologies and Possibilities Thomas D. Cobb, Sarah Kaltsounis, Theodore Myrhe [summary] |
| R3F |
Creating an Effective Syllabus
Nancy Soonpaa [summary] Teaching Professionalism and Efficient Document Production With an Exercise in Timekeeping Grace Wigal [summary] |
| 12:15-1:30pm |
Lunch - A Hoosier Cookout!
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| 12:30pm |
Meeting of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of ALWD
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Session 4 - 1:30-2:15pm
| R4A |
Communicating with the Millennials: Teaching and Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers
Mary N. Bowman, Janet K.G. Dickson [summary] |
| R4B |
Why & How to Incorporate Visuals: Poster Presentations, Handouts and Beyond
Ruth Anne Robbins, Alison Julien [summary] |
| R4C |
Designing (or Re-Designing) Your Course to Improve Learning and Teaching -- Integrated Instructional Design Tools
Linda S. Anderson [summary] |
| R4D |
Mentoring in the Classroom: A Legal Writing Trifecta
Michael G. Massey [summary] Selecting, Training and Supervising Student Tutors Jennifer Brendel, Alice Perlin [summary] |
| R4E |
Methods of Demystifying and Critiquing Analogical Reasoning in Legal Analysis
Stephanie Hartung, Shailini George [summary] |
| R4F |
Aestheticism and Legal Writing
Adam Todd [summary] |
| 2:30pm |
Closing Ice Cream Social
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