Cooley's Research & Writing department reflects a commitment
to experienced teaching, practical skills, and plain language.
• Cooley is the home of editors: our Research & Writing
professors edit The Scribes
Journal of Legal Writing, The
Scrivener (Scribes' newsletter), and Clarity. The
Scribes Journal is the oldest law journal devoted exclusively
to legal writing.
• Within the past year alone, Cooley professors have
published articles about legal writing in Trial, Clarity,
The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, and the Michigan
Bar Journal.
• Cooley Research & Writing professors recently
participated in presentations at the Rocky Mountain LWI
conference, the 2007 Michigan Appellate Bench-Bar
Conference, the State Bar of Michigan's Annual Meeting,
the Fifth International Conference of the Plain Language
Association International, the American Judicature
Society's Midyear Meeting, and the Law and Society
Association’s Annual Meeting. |
Cooley was the first law school to place all of its
Research & Writing
professors on tenure track and keep them there.
• All ten full-time tenure-track Research & Writing
professors practiced law before joining the faculty, and
all passed a rigorous performance test.
• Cooley was the first law school to teach research with 14 self-guided
audiotapes that walk students through the research process and legal analysis.
 The latest issue of The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, whose production and mailing is sponsored by Cooley Law School, was recently featured in a front-page article in the New York Times.
May 20, 2011
This issue contains transcripts of Bryan Garner's interviews with U.S. Supreme Court Justices on legal writing and advocacy, and it has created a small sensation on the Internet. |
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