Journal article
One Challenge Facing the Discipline of Legal Writing: The Connection Between Discipline and Status
Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, Vol.23, p38
01 Jan 2019
Abstract
Informed by the panel on which we participated at the 2018 LWI Biennial Conference—“Promoting Legal Writing Within the Legal Academy: Perspectives from the Dean”—and other sessions and conversations, we believe that one of the challenges that currently faces the discipline of legal writing is the lack of consistent support for the scholarly activities of legal writing faculty throughout the legal academy. For many legal writing faculty, structural and cultural impediments within law school—to put it bluntly, lack of status—deter scholarly productivity. Given that building a discipline necessarily requires scholarship in the discipline, these barriers constitute a systemic challenge to the discipline at large.
How can we address this challenge? At least two interventions might help.
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Details
- Title
- One Challenge Facing the Discipline of Legal Writing: The Connection Between Discipline and Status
- Creators
- Emily ZimmermanDaniel M Filler
- Publication Details
- Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, Vol.23, p38
- Publisher
- Legal Writing Institute
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991020542464504721