On Monday, December 14, 2009, the Legal Methods faculty at WUSL’s
Delaware campus hosted the Fourth Semiannual Meeting of the Delaware
Valley Legal Writing Consortium. Legal Writing professors from area law
schools shared their “Best Teaching Ideas” with a group of about 35
attendees.
Presenters included faculty members
Jennifer Lear
and
Starla Williams from WUSL’s Harrisburg campus and
Alice Eakin and
Maryann Brown from the Delaware campus.
Rutgers-Camden
Professor Ruth Anne Robbins, President of the Legal Writing Institute,
said that she “took home lots and lots of ideas" from the meeting.
Members
of the Planning Committee for this meeting were Professors
Iva Ferrell,
Alison Kehner,
Susan King,
Sydney Howe-Barksdale,
Mary Ellen Maatman,
Mary Ann Robinson, and
Jean Sbarge. During the final part of the
meeting, the group brainstormed the possibility and logistics of
creating a Mid-Atlantic Regional Legal Writing Conference.