Legal Writing Prof Blog

Sue Liemer to Receive the 2024 AALS LWRR Section Award

The Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research has chosen Professor Sue Liemer (Elon University School of Law) to receive its Section Award, which recognizes lifetime contributions to the field of legal writing, reasoning, and research. 

The award will be presented at noon on January 4, 2024 at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The presentation will be made in the Marquis Salon 3 (Level M2) of the Marriott Marquis DC Hotel

Professor Liemer joined the Elon Law faculty in North Carolina in 2017 and was appointed Elon Law’s associate dean for academic affairs in 2021. She had previously served as the Director of Lawyering Skills at Southern Illinois University School of Law. She is also an editor emeritus of the Legal Writing Prof Blog.

Click here to learn more about Professor Liemer and the award.

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Janet Sinder to Receive AALS Law Libraries and Legal Information Section Award

The Association of American Law Schools Section on Law Libraries and Legal Information has announced that its Section Award will go to Janet Sinder (Professor Emerita at Brooklyn Law School).

The award will be presented at the 2024 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Janet Sinder joined the Brooklyn Law School faculty in 2012 as the Director of the Brooklyn Law School Library. Her professional interests include the intersection of library services and information technology, copyright, journal open-access issues, as well as legal history. An active member of the American Association of Law Libraries, she served as the editor of Law Library Journal, the association’s official journal, from 2007 to 2013.

Professor Sinder was awarded the 2014 Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship by the American Association of Law Libraries. 

Prior to coming to Brooklyn Law School, Professor Sinder worked at the law libraries of Duke University and the University of Maryland. She began her legal career as an Assistant Defender at the Office of the State Appellate Defender in Springfield, Illinois.

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2024 Global Legal Skills Conference

The next Global Legal Skills Conference will take place 4-6 June 2024 in southern Italy at the University of Bari.

If you're planning to attend, this is a good week to book travel and hotels because of the "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday" sales offered by many companies this week. We recommend that you make reservations that will be possible to change or cancel in case your travel plans change.

Bari is served by an international airport. A train takes you quickly to the city of Bari, quite near the University of Bari where the GLS-16 Conference will be held. You can arrange your air travel to arrive in or depart from another Italian city such as Rome or Naples.

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