Volumes

Editor’s Note

Kristin B. Gerdy

The Golden Pen Award

IRAC, REA, Where We Are Now, and Where We Should Be Going in the Teaching of Legal Writing

George D. Gopen

Burton Foundation Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Legal Writing Education

Legal Writing in the Academy 2000–2010: A Decade of Promise and Progress

Darby Dickerson

Articles

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

Susan L. DeJarnatt & Mark C. Rahdert

Teaching after Dark: Part-Time Evening Students and the First-Year Legal Research & Writing Classroom

Bonny L. Tavares & Rebecca L. Scalio

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

Peer Tutoring and the Law School Writing Center: Theory and Practice

Kristen E. Murray

Judicial Opinion Writing: an Annotated Bibliography

Ruth C. Vance

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

Mark Yates

Symposium “YES, WE CArNegie!” Conference

Symposium Introduction

Maureen Straub Kordesh

From MacCrate to Carnegie: Very Different Movements for Curricular Reform

Bryant G. Garth

The Carnegie Report and Legal Writing: Does the Report Go Far Enough?

Lisa T. McElroy, Christine N. Coughlin & Deborah S. Gordon

Bridging Gaps and Blurring Lines: Integrating Analysis, Writing, Doctrine, and Theory

Susan J. Hankin

Unpacking the Apprenticeship of Professional Identity and Purpose: Insights from the Law School Survey of Student Engagement

Carole Silver, Amy Garver & Lindsay Watkins

Integrating Doctrine and Skills in First-year Courses: a Transactional Attorney’s Perspective

Celeste M. Hammond

Social Science and the Intellectual Apprenticeship: Moving the Scholarly Mission of Law Schools Forward

Elizabeth Mertz

Learning in Context: What Banjo Lessons Can Teach Us about Legal Education

Sheila Simon

Editor Note

Kristin B. Gerdy

Hitting The Wall As A Legal Writer

Elizabeth Fajans

Fixing Students’ Fixed Mindsets: Paving The Way For Meaningful Assessment

Carrie Sperling and  Susan Shapcott

Teaching Skills of Legal Analysis: Does the Emperor Have Any Clothes?

David J. Herring and Collin Lynch

Text Is Still A Noun: Preserving Linear Text-Based Literacy in an E-Literate World

Mark Yates

Team-Based Learning in Law

Sophie M. Sparrow and Margaret Sova McCabe

Escaping the Appellate Litigation Straitjacket: Incorporating an Alternative Dispute Resolution Simulation into a First-Year Legal Writing Class

Mary Dunnewold and Mary Trevor

Preparing for Practice from Behind the Bench: Opinion Writing as the “Heart and Soul” of the First Semester of Legal Writing

Amanda Smith  

The “Silent but Gifted” Law Student: Transforming Anxious Public Speakers into Well-Rounded Advocates

Heidi K. Brown

Think It, Draft It, Post It: Creating Legal Poster Presentations

Samantha A. Moppett

Introduction

Editor’s Note

Brooke J. Bowman

Articles

Of Old Dogs and New Tricks—Can Law Schools Really Fix Students’ Fixed Mindsets?

Sarah J. Adams-Schoen

Uncommon Results: The Power of Team-Based Learning In the Legal Writing Classroom

Melissa H. Weresh

Law Student Learning Gains Produced By a Writing Assignment and Instructor Feedback

David J. Herring and Collin Lynch

Meet Me In the Cloud:A Legal Research Strategy That Transcends Media

Toree Randall

Texting and the Friction of Writing

Lindsey P. Gustafson

Legal Writing: A history from the Colonial Era to the End of the Civil War

Jeffrey D. Jackson and David R. Cleveland

The Architecture of Drama
by Teresa Bruce

An Exaggerated Demise: The Endurance of Formalism in Legal Rhetoric in the Face of Neuroscience
by Adam Todd

How Do Law Students Develop Writing Expertise During Summer Internships? An Interview-Based Study
by Jonathan Garcia

Screen Time Limits: Reconsidering Presentation Software for the Law School Classroom
by Rachel Stabler

Collaboration Between Legal Writing Faculty and Law Librarians: Two Surveys
by Genevieve B. Tung

On the Value of Words
by Michael Cedrone

Assistant Editors

Kevin Bennardo – UNC School of Law

Glenn Butterton – Peking University School of Transnational Law – Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School

Doug Godfrey – Chicago-Kent College of Law

Annalee Hickman – Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School

Brian Larson – Texas A & M University School of Law

Eunice Park – Western State University College of Law

Anna Scardulla – LSU Law Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Legal Writing: A History From The End Of The Civil War To 1930
by Jeffrey Jackson and David Cleveland

The History Of American Bar Association Standard 405(D): One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
by Melissa H. Weresh

Transitioning To A Collaborative Legal Writing Program: Management Principles To Apply When “Take Me To Your Leader” Is No Longer Applicable
by Jennifer Sheppard

“Liven Their Life Up Just A Little Bit”: Good Pacing Persuades Judges
by Julie A. Oseid

Call It An E-Convo: When An E-Memo Isn’t Really A Memo At All
by Jennifer Will

Help Wanted: An Empirical Study Of Law Hiring
by Peter Nemerovski

The Committed Legal Writer
by Deborah S. Gordon and Author Kait O’Donnell

Book Reviews

Identity: The Demand For Dignity And The Politics Of Resentment
by Francis Fukayama
Reviewed by Elizabeth Adamo Usman

A Short And Happy Guide To Legal Writing
by Deborah L. Borman (West Academic 2019)
Reviewed by Sarah J. Morath

Assistant Editors

Michael Oeser – Professor, Southern University Law Center

Monica Todd – Assistant Professor of Writing and Research, Western State College of Law

Rachel Wickenheiser, – J.D. LP3 Director & Adjunct Faculty, University of Delaware

Mary Matthews – Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law

Ann B. Ching – Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

Sara Ochs – Legal Method and Communication Fellow Elon University School of Law

Mark Kubisch – Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing Pepperdine University School of Law

Cecilia A. Silver – Assistant Professor of Legal Writing Brooklyn Law School

Whitney Werich Heard – Clinical Associate Professor University of Houston Law Center

Christine M. Tamer – UNT Dallas College of Law

Amy Widman – Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Rutgers Law School

Jessica Lefort – Clinical Assistant Professor of Law University of Michigan Law School

Irene Ten Cate – Clinical Assistant Professor Lawyering Skills & Strategies, University of Houston Law Center

Mona Houck – Professor of Practice, Washington & Lee University School of Law

Grace H. Barry – Associate Professor Professional Practice Director, Professional Practice and Legal Writing, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Jessica Hynes – Associate Professor of Legal Studies Co-Director, Academic Integrity Board Quinnipiac University

Anna “Annie” Scardulla, Esq. – Advocacy Fellow LSU Law Advocacy Programs, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center