Coleen Barger to Receive 2016 Blackwell Award

The Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute have announced that the recipient of the 2016 Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing is Coleen Miller Barger, the Altheimer Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law.

This prestigious award is presented annually to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to improve the field of Legal Writing by demonstrating:

• an ability to nurture and motivate students to excellence;
• a willingness to help other legal writing educators improve their teaching skills or their legal writing programs; and
• an ability to create and integrate new ideas for teaching and motivating legal writing educators and students.

Those nominating her and the Blackwell Award Committee agreed that Coleen exemplifies these qualities. The award will be presented at the Blackwell Award Reception at 8 p.m. on January 6, 2016, during the Association of American Law Schools' Annual Meeting in New York.

Coleen is an editor emeritus here at the Legal Writing Prof Blog and we congratulate her on being named to receive this award.

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