CARLISLE, Pa. — Penn State Dickinson Law, in conjunction with the Legal Writing Institute, will host "Dismantling the Separate But Equal Paradigm: Integrating Legal Research and Writing into the Law School Curriculum" from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, in the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium, Lewis Katz Hall, Dickinson Law. This one-day workshop is designed for legal writing professors and law librarians.
Registration is required by Monday, Dec. 2.
Legal research and writing are essential components of any healthy law practice. Finding useful sources of law and translating that research into effective writing are critical skills of lawyers. This program will explore why legal research and writing courses are often limited to the first-year curriculum, the hierarchical structure of legal research and writing faculty and law librarians in the legal academy, the “separate but equal” status of legal research and writing in the classroom and beyond, effective tools to break down barriers of legal research and writing permeate every facet of law practice, and more.
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For more information, please contact Gail Partin, associate dean for Library and Information Services and director, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Law Library, at gap6@psu.edu or 717-240-5294.