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AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research Section Newsletter AALS Section on Legal Spring/Summer 2011 Writing, Reasoning and 22 Pages Research morning and afternoon refreshments, and a special The vast collections of the Law Mark E. Wojcik luncheon during which we plan to Library of the Library of Congress The John Marshall present our section awards. are available to us individually as Law School scholars and teachers. Materials in Chicago,Chair, The Law Library of the Library of that collection can also assist our AALS Section on Congress will be a particularly good students later in practice. Inter‐ Legal Writing, visit for our section. It was created library loan is available for many Reasoning, and in 1832 as a separate department of books, and many of the library’s Research the Library of Congress. Today, the resources are even available Law Library of the Library of electronically. Through the Global Congress is the single largest law Legal Information Network (GLIN, library in the world, containing http://www.glin.gov), the Law more than three million volumes of Library of Congress provides digital The 2012 annual meeting of the legal materials from 267 legal access to accurate and official Association of American Law systems and jurisdictions. The primary‐source materials in more Schools will be a particularly rich library’s collection is so vast that meeting for those of us who teach than 14 languages. Online more than 36,000 volumes of rare resources such as THOMAS (http:// legal research and writing. books in its collection cannot fit thomas.loc.gov) provide electronic First, our section will have what inside the rare book vault, which is access to timely, accurate, and seems to be its very first field trip, already filled to capacity with essential federal research materials. when we will visit the Law Library of 23,750 other rare law books. We will learn about recent changes the Library of Congress.This will be The Law Library of the Library of that we can use when we teach a full‐day, ticketed event for which Congress serves the legal research students about how to research you must register in advance. needs of the U.S. Congress, the federal statutes. (Earlier this year we took a head federal executive agencies, and The Law Library of Congress also count of expressions of interest in state and federal courts. For the field trip, but those were not has extensive collections of state decades, the library has also served law materials. As other law libraries reservations for the trip. You must the research needs of thousands of around the country condense their register for the AALS annual individual researchers who meeting and buy the ticket for the holdings, it becomes essential to understand and appreciate its vast understand how to use the field trip.) The cost of the field trip and unique resources. In 1931, collections of the largest law library will include bus transportation to Justice Harlan Stone testified before in the world. the Law Library of Congress, the House Committee on Legislative Appropriations that the Law Library INSIDE THIS ISSUE of Congress served not only the Poster Presentations 2 needs of the U.S. Supreme Court, but represented “the fulfillment of a Section Award 3 great national purpose, by placing Blackwell Award 5 the material where it could be reached by every person having Golden Pen and Courage Awards 6 legitimate interest in carrying on January 6 Program: Assessment 7 these studies.” And testifying before that Committee again in January 8 Program: Rhetoric 8 1933, Justice Stone said that the Promotions, Awards, Moves 9 United States “should have a law Presentations, Publications 12 library to which official bodies and individuals would come, from every Conference and Workshops 18 part of this country and from Committee Assignments 20 abroad, for the purpose of Logo of the conducting legal investigation and Law Library of Congress Section Leadership 22 research.” Newsletter for the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research 2 Our field trip to the Law Library of Congress should be a particularly special event. We will have special exhibits (just for us) and access to parts of the library that are Remembering San Francisco usually off limits to members of the public. We will have special sessions with some of the 20 or so attorneys who build the library’s collection and who can respond to specific research requests. Please plan to join us on Thursday, January 5, 2012. This field trip will likely sell out, so register early to avoid disappointment. Second, our section will have a separate business meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday evening. This will be on the same day as our field trip and when many law schools hold receptions (which go until 8:30 or so, Poster Presentations so you will be able to make those too). We will elect our incoming section officers and a new executive committee. We will also discuss program ideas for the 2013 AALS Annual Meeting, which will be held in New Orleans. (We held a separate business meeting last year to give our section members a chance to meet each other, welcome new section members, and discuss ideas for this year. I believe that giving ourselves a few minutes to meet each year is a good investment of our time.) Nicole Raymond Chong The Pennsylvania School State University,of Law Third, our section will have a regular panel Dickinson program on Friday morning, January 6, 2012. This panel will feature the best of the Judith D. Fischer Univer legal writing community selected from a call sity of Louisville Louis D. for presenters. The names of the speakers Brandeis School selected will be published in the of Law supplemental program, on the Legal Writing Prof Blog, and in the next edition of this newsletter. Fourth, our section will have an additional Sunday panel from 9:00 a.m. until noon where more of our colleagues will present. As you make your travel plans for Jeffrey Proske Washington, please consider a later plane University of the Pacific or train on Sunday so that you can enjoy McGeorge School of Law these additional presentations. That’s an early snapshot of our section’s activities at the AALS Annual Meeting. It is an honor to chair such an active and engaged section of the Association of American Law Schools. In addition to all of LWRR Section Poster Presentation these activities, our section committees have additional plans for the coming year. I thank all of your for your involvement and support. Mark Wojcik Elena Margolis & Kristen E. Murray Temple University School Jamesof Law E. Beasley Newsletter for the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research 3 Friends of Legal Writing Luncheon/AALS Conference Presentation of the 2011 AALS Section Award: Elizabeth Fajans Remarks by Elizabeth Fajans Upon Receiving the Section Award When I started teaching at BLS, thirty writing courses, Michael Smith noted years ago, I thought I would be there that there still are no texts available only while I looked for a real job. At for both writing courses in the the time, that meant to me a job context of other lawyering skills and within commuting distance of New writing courses in the context of York City teaching English Literature. doctrinal subjects. But I am sure that Four years later, I realized I had been people sitting in this room will come so busy trying to learn something to write these texts—writing in the about law, that I hadn’t been context of international law, writing searching for a job in English and in the context of public interest hadn’t read any literary criticism. At lawyering, writing in the context of first, I became depressed—I never corporate law—supplying us with consciously decided to change career books for years to come that will tracks. But then I had my “Aha” enrich the upper class writing moment. curriculum of every law school. English is an old and venerable field , So when I began at BLS, I thought I but an awful lot has been thought had taken a detour, only to find I was and said about it. But in the 1980s, on the right path all along. And I do legal writing was a new field and no not think I am alone in this. People Betsy has been a constant one then in it had to search for come to legal writing for a variety of something to write about. reasons: they have young children supporter of all the other Everything had to be done. they want to spend time with; they writing specialists. She In the 1980s, if you had read Terry need a break from the stress of mentors the new Phelps’ article, The New Legal practice; they want a chance to write, Rhetoric, which introduced process teach, and search for a tenure track specialists, and shares her t h e o r y t o t h e l e g a l w r i t i n g job. Yet they stay because writing is ideas and encouragement community, your literature review hard, so the task of teaching it is both was done. You were current. challenging and important. They stay with the established ones. Meanwhile no one had a textbook to because the opportunities for doing For 40 years her husband, teach by and no one was quite sure groundbreaking work are still real. what legal writing was. And they stay because, like the early Bob, has supported Betsy; California wineries that banded undoubtedly that support Today, a literature review would take together so as to produce wines that seriously more time, but the legal could begin to compete with the has allowed her to reach writing community is still discovering great European Chateaus, so legal out to the larger its boundaries—still wondering writing professors banded together whether it has boundaries.
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