Volume 17
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
Susan L. DeJarnatt & Mark C. Rahdert
Bonny L. Tavares & Rebecca L. Scalio
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
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
Carole Silver, Amy Garver & Lindsay Watkins
Integrating Doctrine and Skills in First-year Courses: a Transactional Attorney’s Perspective
Celeste M. Hammond
Elizabeth Mertz
Learning in Context: What Banjo Lessons Can Teach Us about Legal Education
Sheila Simon
Volume 18
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
Sophie M. Sparrow and Margaret Sova McCabe
Mary Dunnewold and Mary Trevor
Amanda Smith
Heidi K. Brown
Think It, Draft It, Post It: Creating Legal Poster Presentations
Samantha A. Moppett
Volume 19
Introduction
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
Volume 20
Introduction to Essays on Technology and Changes in Legal Research
Terrill Pollman
Some Musings on Teaching Legal Research
Filippa Marullo Anzalone
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
Robert C. Berring
Not Seeing Our Brains: The Future of Legal Research
Ian Gallacher
Penny A. Hazelton
The Challenges of Using Electronic Resources to Solve Ill-Structured Legal Problems
Stefan Krieger
Ellie Margolis and Kristen Murray
Researching on Solid Ground in a Changing Technological Landscape
Linda S. Maslow
Using Data Analytics Tools to Supplement Traditional Research and Analysis Forecasting Case Outcomes
Mark K. Osbeck
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing: Students, Scholars, and Sources in the Law Library
Jeanne Frazier Price
Out of the Glass Cockpit: Teaching Legal Analysis in Legal Research
Suzanne Rowe
The 95 Theses: Legal Research in the Internet Age
Amy E. Sloan
Is This the Law Library or an Episode of the Jetsons?
Ronald Wheeler
Technology and Future Directions for Law Libraries
Michelle M. Wu
Art-iculating the Analysis: Systemizing the Decision to Use Visuals as Legal Reasoning
Steve Johansen and Ruth Anne Robbins
Terri L. Enns and Monte Smith
Using Empirical Methods to Study Legal Writing
Shaun B. Spencer
Understanding Voice: Writing in a Judicial Context
Andrea McArdle
Flexible IRAC: A Best Practices Guide
Tracy Turner
Volume 21
Brooke J. Bowman
Essays
Introduction to Essays on Technology in Courtrooms and Judicial Chambers
Terrill Pollman
Paper Versus Pixels: Please Don’t Take My Pencil Away
The Honorable Jean Rosenbluth
Redefining the Workplace: Technology and the Modern Judicial Chambers
The Honorable Robert N. Davis
Reading, Writing, and Listening in the Bankruptcy Courts
The Honorable James E. Massey (Ret.)
Articles
Lawyers at Work: A Study of the Reading, Writing, and Communication Practices of Legal Professionals
Ann Sinsheimer and David J. Herring
Ethos Character, and Discoursal Self in Persuasive Legal Writing
J. Christopher Rideout
Jeremy Francis, Daphne O’Regan, Ryan C. Black
Visual Rhetoric: Topics of Invention and Arrangement and Tropes of Style
Michael D. Murray
Volume 22
EIC Note
By Karen J. Sneddon
Essays: Building a Scholarly Journal
Building a Scholarly Journal: Reflections from Past Editors in Chief Introduction
by Lisa Eichhorn
Starting from Scratch: Early Steps for the Journal
by J. Christopher Rideout
by Louis J. Sirico, Jr.
Remembering the Early Days of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute: Volumes 2 through 12.
by Kathryn Mercer
The Human Side of Legal Writing: Remembering Our Colleagues
by Diane Penneys Edelman
by Mary Beth Beazley
Failure Was Always An Option: My Life As An EIC
by James B. Levy
A Symposium Issue that Begs Revisiting
by Kristin B. Gerdy
Essays: Writing About Legal Writing
by Terrill Pollman
What Is Legal Writing? The Tale of a Discipline
by Kimberly Y.W. Holst
How Is Legal Writing Read and Written?
by Ellie Margolis
What We Still Don’t Know About What Persuades Judges – And Some Ways We Might Find Out
by Ted Becker
The Next Great Challenge: Making Legal Writing Scholarship Count as Legal Scholarship
by Kristen K. Tiscione
by Lindsey P. Gustafson
Volume 23
By Lindsey P. Gustafson and Karen J. Sneddon
Essays: Reflections on the 2018 Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference
By Tami K. Lefko
Teaching Cultural Competence as a Fundamental Lawyering Skill
by Ederlina Co
by Robin Konrad
by Paige Carlos
Information Literacy for the Next Generation
by Ellie Margolis and Kristen Murray
Growth and Mindset for a Generation as a Profession
by Latisha Nixon-Jones
Research Ethics in Legal Writing: Challenges for Empirical Research
by Alissa Hartig
Drawing Connections Between Artificial Intelligence, Cognition, and Legal Skills
by Drew Simshaw
Interval Training for Legal Writing Scholars
by Laura Graham
by Heidi Brown
International Transitions and New Opportunities
by Clayton Steele
by Diane Edelman
Reading Legal Writing Together
by Kirsten Davis
Testing the Waters at My First LWI Conference
by Heather Gram
A Challenge for LWI: Retaining and Valuing Our Roots
by Ken Swift
One Challenge Facing The Discipline of Legal Writing
by Emily Zimmerman and Dan Filler
The Choice Is to Stay in the “Pink Ghetto”
by Tiffany Jeffers
Familiar Battles Yield Next-Generation Victories
by Karin Mika
Articles
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
Volume 24
Editor’s Note
by Lindsey Gustafson
Essays
The Rising Tide in the Legal Writing Community: Lifting All Boats or Changing Climate?
by Suzanne Rowe
From a Gleam to Maturity: The Developmental Stages of a Legal Writing Program
By Nancy Soonpaa
Here’s Tae Us, Wha’s Like Us: Some Thoughts on the Future of Legal Writing in American Law Schools
by Ian Gallacher
Hamilton’s Take on Legal Writing Faculty and Law School Leadership
by Cindy Thomas Archer
Legal Writing Professors, Salary Disparities, and the Impossibility of “Improved Status”
by Amy H. Soled
Voting Like a Duck: Reflecting on a Year of Legal Writing Voting Rights
by Meredith Stange
Professional Fulfillment without Tenure
by Joel Schumm
Improving the Legal Writing Adjunct Experience: Lessons from Lawyer-to-Lawyer Mentoring Literature
by Coleen Garrity Settineri
The Power of a Positive Tweet
by Patricia Grande Montana
Articles
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