Category Archives: Legal Research & Writing

Research Grants – Law Librarianship

The AALL Research & Publications Committee is accepting applications through Monday, December 12, 2011, for research grants from the AALL/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grants Program that may total up…

Call for Proposals: 2012 Empire State Legal Writing Conference – Buffalo, NY

The University at Buffalo Law School will host the Third Annual Empire State Legal Writing Conference on June 23, 2012 in Buffalo New York.  The conference invites proposals for presentations…

Friday’s Scholarship About Scholarship

On some Fridays, we highlight scholarship, news, and blog posts about scholarship. If you would like to recommend something for this feature, please send us a note (legalscholarshipblog [at] gmail.com)….

Western Empirical Legal Studies Conference – Los Angeles, CA

The UCLA Empirical Legal Scholars Association will be hosting the 1st Annual Western Empirical Legal Studies Conference on February 18, 2012. The WELS conference is open to law and graduate…

Legal Writing Conference – Concord, NH

The New England Consortium of Legal Writing Teachers seeks proposals for presentations at the Creating Practice-Ready Assignments and Exercises Legal Writing Conference. The conference aims to provide attendees with new…

Friday’s Scholarship About Scholarship

Chris Beneke offers advice to academic book reviewers: Thou Shalt Review Books Responsibly, The Historical Society, July 29, 2011. Colin Miller asks: Burying the Lead?: Does a C.V. Listing “Lead…

Friday’s Scholarship About Scholarship

This installment of Friday’s Scholarship About Scholarship might more aptly be labelled “Blog Posts About Scholarship,” but I’ll still with the meta label. To suggest something for this (nearly) weekly…

Legal Writing and Skills Instruction – Chicago, IL

John Marshall Law School hosts the 7th Biennial Central States Legal Writing Conference, “Practice-Ready”: Preparing Students and Assessing Progress, Sept. 16-17, 2011. The deadline for online registration is today, Sept….

Friday’s Scholarship About Scholarship

Anis Shivani, Exclusive Interview with Princeton University Press Director Peter Dougherty, Huffington Post, Aug. 28, 2011 (the first of a projected series of interview with university press leaders). See also…

Friday’s Scholarship About Scholarship

This week’s Scholarship About Scholarship includes papers on copyright of academic works, law and economics in law schools, publication patterns in economics, law reviews’ ideologically-driven publication of pieces about treatment…