Sessions Information

  • January 3, 2020
    1:30 pm - 3:15 pm
    Session Type: AALS Discussion Groups
    Session Capacity: N/A
    Hotel: Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
    Room: Wilson A
    Floor: Mezzanine Level
    This discussion group will explore pedagogical issues that bubble beneath the surface for legal writing professors from different generations. A wide range of writing, teaching, and law practice experiences inform legal writing professors as they help today’s law students prepare for an unknowable future. Ignoring or gliding past generational differences may mean students graduate with very different instruction and practice in fundamental legal skills. Looking purposefully at generational differences in legal writing pedagogy may enable us to identify and better use the most helpful things that each generation of professors contributes. We may be able to identify legal writing traditions that may now need to receive less emphasis than before or be sunset altogether. And we may be able to identify aspects of legal communications that need to receive more emphasis or be introduced for the first time into the legal writing curriculum.
Session Speakers
Elon University School of Law
Discussion Group Participant

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Discussion Group Participant

Golden Gate University School of Law
Discussion Group Participant

Northern Illinois University College of Law
Discussion Group Participant

North Carolina Central University School of Law
Discussion Group Participant

Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University
Discussion Group Participant

Elon University School of Law
Discussion Group Moderator

Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Discussion Group Participant

Emory University School of Law
Discussion Group Participant

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
Discussion Group Participant

Gonzaga University School of Law
Discussion Group Participant

Texas Tech University School of Law
Discussion Group Participant

Southern University Law Center
Discussion Group Participant

Drake University Law School
Discussion Group Participant

The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Discussion Group Participant

Session Fees
  • [4350] AALS Discussion Group - The Multi-Generational Teaching of Legal Writing: $0.00