Vol. 17, 2011 | Published by Legal Writing

Kristin B. Gerdy

A note from the Editor-in-Chief of Volume 17

Preparing for Globalized Law Practice: The Need to Include International and Comparative Law in the Legal Writing Curriculum

Susan L. DeJarnattMark C. Rahdert

LRW instruction should include a realistically structured global component to encourage students to view transnational legal issues as an integral component of all legal education.

Articles
Teaching After Dark: Evening Students and the First-Year Legal Research & Writing Classroom
Bonny L. TavaresRebecca L. Scalio
Law professors and law school administrators must ensure that part-time J.D. programs adapt, improve, and respond to the needs of our students.
Articles
Norm-Referenced Grading in the Age of Carnegie: Why Criteria-Referenced Grading is More Consistent with Current Trends in Legal Education and How Legal Writing Can Lead the Way
Leslie M. Rose
Criteria-referenced grading, which evaluates students based on objective standards of competency, avoids many of the negative aspects of norm-referenced grading and is more consistent with current trends in legal education.
Articles
Peer Tutoring and the Law School Writing Center: Theory and Practice
Kristen E. Murray
Legal writing programs have long embraced composition theory as a basis for program innovations and curricular design. So why are there so few peer-staffed writing centers in law schools?
Articles
Judicial Opinion Writing: An Annotated Bibliography
Ruth C. Vance
This Bibliography supplies legal writers with a list of resources for both opinion writing and for those preparing to work with or write for judges.

Articles

The Carnegie Effect: Elevating Practical Training Over Liberal Education in Curricular Reform

Mark Yates

Even if educators embrace a more progressive vision of the profession and agree to take the lead in bringing it about, the Carnegie Report’s perspective is far too narrow.

Introductions

Symposium Introduction: “YES, WE CArNegie!”

Maureen Straub Kordesh

Maureen Kordesh offers an introduction to the "YES, WE CArNegie!" symposium pieces.

Articles

From MacCrate to Carnegie: Very Different Movements for Curricular Reform

Bryant G. Garth

The MacCrate Report substantially impacted legal education, but the Carnegie Report is destined to have a greater practical impact on legal education reform.

Articles
The Carnegie Report and Legal Writing: Does The Report Go Far Enough?
Lisa T. McElroyChristine N. CoughlinDeborah S. Gordon
Though the Carnegie Report rightly recognized that legal education benefits from an integrated approach to learning, it falls short in its approach to and commentary on skills faculty.
Articles
Bridging Gaps and Blurring Lines: Integrating Analysis, Writing, Doctrine, and Theory
Susan J. Hankin
A discussion of two models for integrating skills with doctrine in the first-year curriculum.
Articles
Unpacking the Apprenticeship of Professional Identity and Purpose: Insights from the Law School Survey of Student Engagement
Carole SilverAmy GarverLindsay Watkins
In order to help students make the transition to becoming lawyers, law schools and faculty must move beyond the borders of their control.
Articles
Integrating Doctrine and Skills in First-Year Courses: A Transactional Attorney’s Experience
Celeste M. Hammond
For students to realize the significance of transactional practice, they need to encounter the model in their first year of law school.
Articles
Social Science and the Intellectual Apprenticeship: Moving the Scholarly Mission of Law Schools Forward
Elizabeth Mertz
The author makes the case for social science as a key bridge between legal theory and law practice.
Articles
Learning in Context: What Banjo Lessons Can Teach Us About Legal Education
Sheila Simon
The lines between casebook courses, clinical courses, and skills courses are artificial.
Awards and Remarks
Golden Pen Award Remarks from George D. Gopen
George D. Gopen
Remarks from the 2011 Golden Pen Award Winner
Awards and Remarks
Burton Foundation Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Legal Writing Education
Darby Dickerson
Legal Writing in the Academy 2000–2010: A Decade of Promise and Progress

Vol. 17, 2011 Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute

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Vol. 17, 2011
Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute