Category Archives: Legal Research & Writing

International Language and Law Association (ILLA)

Law & Language in World of Media, Globalisation, Conflict – Freiburg, Germany

The International Language and Law Association (ILLA) holds its first international conference of legal linguistics, Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts, Sept. 7–9, 2017,…

Applied Legal Storytelling

Sixth Biennial Conference on Applied Legal Storytelling – Washington D.C.

American University’s Washington College of Law hosts the Sixth Biennial Conference on Applied Legal Storytelling July 11-13, 2017. The 2017 conference will begin in the late afternoon/early evening of July…

Global Legal Skills Conference, John Marshall Law School

Global Legal Skills Conference – Monterrey, Mexico

The twelfth Global Legal Skills Conference (GLS-12), presented by John Marshall Law School, will be held at the Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey March 15–17, 2017, with an optional…

Stetson Law

CFP: Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference – Gulfport, Florida

Stetson University Institute for the Advancement of Legal Communication and its legal writing faculty invite proposals for presentations at the Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference, “Legal Writing in 3-D: Discourse, Disciple, and Doctrine.”…

Legal Writing Institute (LWI)

CFP: Rethinking Research

The Second Draft invites submissions for the Fall 2017 issue, on the theme Rethinking Research. Submissions are due by March 14, 2017. See second-draft-fall-2017-call-for-submissions. The Second Draft is a publication…

Legal Writing Institute (LWI)

Legal Writing Inst. 1-Day Workshops — 7 Cities

The Legal Writing Institute is sponsoring one-day workshops at eight law schools and online. The workshops are as follows: Tulane University School of Law, Preparing Practice Ready Students, Dec. 2…

"Writing Prize" with picture of three pens

Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award

Nominations of articles published Sept. 2015 to Sept. 2016 are invited for the Penny Pether Law and Language Scholarship Award 2016. The deadline is Nov. 30, 2016. A passionate advocate…

Touro Law (Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center)

Teaching in the Age of Digital Law Practice – Long Island, NY

The Legal Writing Institute’s One-Day Workshop Committee is soliciting proposals for an online One Day Workshop at Touro Law Center.  This Workshop will be held exclusively online on December 16th. …

2017 ALWD Conference

2017 ALWD Biennial Conference – Minneapolis, MN

The 2017 ALWD Biennial Conference will be hosted by the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis, Minnesota July 19-21, 2017. There are many opportunities to present. The conference will feature…

AALL

AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers

The American Association of Law Libraries and LexisNexis invite papers in four categories: Open Division (March 1, 2017 Deadline) New Member Division (March 1, 2017 Deadline) Short Form Division (March…