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Judith M. Stinson*
* ©Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Clinical Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; J.D., University of Arizona College of Law. B.A., University of Arizona. I would like to thank the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law for its support and encouragement of scholarly activities at the law school in general and my scholarly activities in particular, with particular thanks to Dean Doug Sylvester, Associate Dean Andy Hessick, Professor Carissa Hessick, Tamara Herrera, Amy Langenfeld, and all my colleagues, present and past, teaching legal writing at ASU. I would also like to thank Ruth Anne Robbins, Linda Berger, Sue Bay, Sue Painter-Thorne, and the LC&R: JALWD peer reviewers for their helpful insights and comments on this paper. Special thanks also to Terry Pollman for her help with this project and her encouragement of my scholarship in general and to Suzanne Rowe for her suggestion that I write up this presentation and submit this essay. I am fortunate to have you all as mentors. “Generating Interest, Enthusiasm, and Opportunity for Scholarly Activities” was the topic of a roundtable discussion at the Association of Legal Writing Directors’ biennial conference in June 2011. Few of the ideas in this paper are mine; some originated at my law school, the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Others came from colleagues in the field who, over the years, have shared their techniques for remaining productive scholars. And a number of other ideas came from the invaluable feedback from roundtable attendees. For their helpful insights and energizing engagement with the topic, I would like to thank the roundtable attendees: Peter Bayer, Linda Berger, David Cleveland, Kirsten Davis, Linda Edwards, Lisa Eichorn, Lyn Entrikin, Lorraine Gin, Tamara Herrera, Lance Long, Megan McAlpin, Terry Pollman, Suzanne Rowe, Rebecca Scharf, Rosi Schrier, and Gail Stephenson. Their feedback and input made the session and this paper much stronger. Any errors or omissions are, of course, entirely my fault.