This isn’t specifically about legal research instruction, but might be of interest to those who teach legal research: Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction: An Edited Collection. Abstracts are due Sept. 15, 2008. Jump to full post
The Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (J. ALWD) invites submission of articles for its Fall 2009 Best Practices in Persuasion issue. The Journal encourages authors to submit articles addressing the best practices theme as well as articles on other topics that fit within the mission of the Journal.
The final deadline for submission of articles for the Fall 2009 issue is September 15, 2008. Jump to full post
The Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University presents the Fourth Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Comparative Legi-Linguistics, an international conference on language and the law. “Our aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between linguists, computer scientists and lawyers from all around the world.” The conference takes place July 2-4, 2009, in Poznan, Poland.
The organizers invite papers on a wide range of topics related to forensic linguistics in general; legal translation and court interpreting; legal languages and legal discourse; computational linguistics; history of law and legal systems; and laws on languages. Abstracts should be submitted by Feb. 28, 2009.
The Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University presents the Third Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Comparative Legi-Linguistics, an international conference on language and the law. “Our aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between linguists, computer scientists and lawyers from all around the world.” The conference takes place July 3-5, 2008, in Poznan, Poland.
August 4-7, 2008, the Istanbul Legal Skills Conference will bring together professors from the United States and European Union to discuss legal writing skills with Turkish lawyers and law students. The conference is sponsored by Bahcesehir University’s Institute for Global Understanding in Law and the Legal Writing Institute.
For more information, contact Tracy McGaugh at tmcgaugh[at]tourolaw.edu.
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New York Law School presents its fourth biennial Faculty Presentation Day on April 2.
Faculty and students present their work—making the effort to offer serious and subtle ideas in an accessible and enjoyable format—and our whole community takes part in the discussions these presentations generate.
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This event is open to all members of the New York Law School community and to our colleagues on the bench, at the bar, and in academia. There is no charge for attendance and complimentary breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be served.
The New York Law Review will publish a symposium issue based on the presentations. Jump to full post
Jane Campbell Moriarty (Akron Law), Experiences as a Visiting Professor
Chuck Whitehead (Boston Law), The Evolution of Debt: Agency Costs, Financial Innovation, and Corporate Governance
Raqaiijah A. Yearby (Loyola Law), You Can’t Win, You Can’t Break Even, and You Can’t Get Out of the Game: Discontinuing the Cycle of Racial Inequities in Health Care Forty-Four Years after the Passage of Title VI
Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law), Administrative Law as the New Federalism
Robert Thompson (Vanderbilt Law), Corporate Voting in the World of Financial Engineering
Margareth Etienne (Illinois Law), Uncorporating the Large Firm
Robert Tsai (Oregon Law), Reconsidering Gobitis: Lessons in Presidential Leadership
Alicia Davis Evans (Michigan Law), Are Investors’ Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence
Allan Erbsen (Minnesota Law), Horizontal Federalism
NYU Colloquium on Tax Policy & Public Finance
Northwestern Advanced Topics in Taxation
Adam Rosenzweig (Washington Law in St. Louis), Taxation, Risk and Derivatives: Does an Income Tax Subsidize Hedge Funds?
Jenny S. Martinez (Stanford Law), Substance and Process in the War on Terror
Jeremy Rabkin (George Mason Law), Exit, Voice, Loyalty in International Organizations: Why Can’t the President Check the First Option
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Frank Bloch (Vanderbilt Law), The Future of Legal Education
Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt Law), Neuroscience in the Criminal Justice System
Aida Alaka (Washburn Law), The Phenomenology of Error in Student Legal Writing
Pat Kuszler (Washington Law), Genomics and Global Health: Promise or Peril
Erica Field (Harvard Economics), Prenuptial Agreements and the Emergence of Dowry in Bangladesh
Transforming Legal Education, the 2008 Conference on Law School Computing (CALI) will be hosted by the University of Maryland School of Law June 19-21, 2008. Session proposals are accepted until June 1, 2008. Jump to full post
The China–United States Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries will be held in Beijing in May, 2009. Specific dates and location will be announced in the near future. The conference is sponsored by the Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 29th, 2008 | Law Librarianship, Comparative Law, Legal Research & Writing, CONFERENCES | no comments
The Center for Transactional Law and Practice at Emory University School of Law presents Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills: The Basics and Beyond May 30-31, 2008. The call for proposals deadline is December 21, 2007.
Thanks: Conglomerate.
Michele Goodwin (Minnesota Law), Biotechnology: The New Empire
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Law School Rankings: Past, Present, and Future
Emma Coleman Jordan (Georgetown), Wealth and Inequality: Thinking about Communities and Individualism
Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale Law), Treaties and National Security
Tom Hazlett (George Mason Law), Natural Experiments in U.S. Broadband Regulation
Christina Bohannan (Iowa Law), Copyright Harm and Fair Use
New York Law School South Africa Reading Group
Adam Dodek (Toronto Law), The Springbok, the Maple Leaf, and the Eagle: South African-Canadian Constitutional Relationships in a World of Old, New, and Middle-Aged Constitutions
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Wolfram Karl (Salzburg Law), Fundamental Rights and Terrorism–The European Experience
Kate Bohl (Stetson Law), Generations of X and Y Take Legal Writing: Practical Strategies for Class Management
Robert Mikos (UC Davis), Regulating under the Influence of the Controlled Substances Act
Curtis Milhaupt (Columbia Law), Reputational Sanctions in China’s Security Market
Nicole Garnett (Notre Dame Law), Suburbs as Exit, Suburbs as Entrance
James Boyd White will deliver the keynote address for “How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law” at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. on November 2, 2007.
The conference is free; register here. For more information, contact Teresa Godwin Phelps.
Third International Conference on Universal Digital Library at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA on November 2-4, 2007.
The University of Oregon hosts “The Promise of Reason: The New Rhetoric After 50 Years,” May 17-20, 2008, in Eugene.
Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca published La Nouvelle Rhétorique: Traité de l’Argumentation in 1958, a work that has since come to represent the revival of rhetoric and its reintegration with philosophy in the twentieth century. The influence of this work is felt in rhetoric, philosophy, jurisprudence, communication studies, critical theory, and the newer disciplines of argumentation and informal reasoning.
The deadline for paper proposals is Sept. 21, 2007.
The Rhetoric Society of America holds its 13th Biennial Conference, May 23-26, 2008, Seattle, Washington. The conference theme is: The Responsibilities of Rhetoric.
Proposals for sessions and individual presentations are due by September 15, 2007.
Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey hosts Global Legal Skills Conference III, Feb. 28-March 1, 2008.
The 13th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute will be July 14-17, 2008, in Indianapolis, Indiana, at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis.
The Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, based at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands), is organizing an academic conference on Methods of Human Rights Research on November 23-24, 2007.
The Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law hosts Teaching the Teachers: Effective Instruction in Legal Research, Oct. 18-20, Austin, TX.
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