Recent Scholarship

Articles:

• Joe Fore, The Comparative Benefits of Standalone Email Assignments in the First-Year Legal Writing Curriculum, 22 Legal Writing 151 (2018)
• Joseph Kimble, Revisiting the Writing Contests [in four parts], Mich. B.J, Feb. 2018, at 40; Jan. 2018, at 40; Dec. 2017, at 38; Nov. 2017, at 36. https://www.michbar.org/ generalinfo/plainenglish/home
• Barbara Kalinowski, Logic Ab Initio: A Functional Approach to Improve Law Students’ Critical Thinking, 22 Legal Writing 109 (2018)
• Sue Liemer, Embodied Legal Education: Incorporating Another Part of Bloom’s Taxonomy, 95 Det. Mercy L. Rev. 101 (2017)
• Joan Rocklin, Exam-Writing Instruction in a Classroom Near You: Why It Should Be Done and How to Do It, 22 Legal Writing 189 (2018)
• Mary Lay Schuster, Brian N. Larson & Amy D. Propen, Medico-Legal Collaboration Regarding the Sex Offender: Othering and Resistance, 1 Rhetoric of Health & Medicine 90 (2018)
• Shaun Spencer & Adam Feldman, Words Count: The Empirical Relationship between Brief Quality and Summary Judgment Success in State and Federal Courts, 22 Legal Writing 61 (2018)

Books:

• Christine Coughlin, Joan Malmud Rocklin & Sandy Patrick, A Lawyer Writes (3d ed. Carolina Academic Press 2018)
  
• Eric Easton, Defending the Masses: A Progressive Lawyer’s Battles for Free Speech (UW Press 2018)
• Helene S. Shapo, Marilyn R. Walter & Elizabeth Fajans, Writing and Analysis in the Law (7^th ed. Foundation Press 2018).

Recently Discussed on the ALWD/LWI Listservs

• Neil W. Hamilton, Changing Markets Create Opportunities: Emphasizing the Competencies Legal Employers Use in Hiring New Lawyers (Including Professional Formation/Professionalism), 65 S.C. L. Rev. 567 (2017)
  
• Terri LeClerq, The Premature Deaths of Writing Teachers, 3 Integrated Leg. Research 4 (1990)
  
• Susan Wawrose, What Do Legal Employers Want to See in New Graduates?: Using Focus Groups to Find Out, 39 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 505 (2013)