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Fifth Colonial Frontier Legal Writing Conference Drafting Statutes And Rules Pedagogy, Practice, And Politics (Foreword), Jan M. Levine Dec 2016

Fifth Colonial Frontier Legal Writing Conference Drafting Statutes And Rules Pedagogy, Practice, And Politics (Foreword), Jan M. Levine

Jan M. Levine

On December 3, 2016, the Duquesne University School of Law hosted the first national conference on drafting statutes and rules, as our fifth biennial conference on legal writing pedagogy, resulting in this issue of the Duquesne Law Review. The conference theme and agenda was developed by the faculty of the Legal Research and Writing Program and was supported by our law school administration and our generous alumni, with additional assistance from LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer Legal Education. The theme of this conference was “Statutes and Rules: Pedagogy, Practice, and Politics.”


Designing Spaces: Planning The Physical Space For A Legal Writing Program, Jan M. Levine Dec 2013

Designing Spaces: Planning The Physical Space For A Legal Writing Program, Jan M. Levine

Jan M. Levine

Very little has been written about designing new law school buildings or renovating existing law school buildings. There are a handful of articles about the process of building a new law school, or about a dean’s legacy being reflected in a building. Other articles have been written about designing law school libraries, and about building law libraries for other patrons. Law school rankings often reflect student satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the school’s physical plant. But almost nothing has been published about creating spaces for skills-based programs such as clinics7 and writing programs, despite the special considerations that apply to those …