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Bundle: The Handbook for the New Legal Writer, Third Edition and Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity, First Edition

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Authors
  • Jill Barton
  • Rachel H. Smith
  • April G. Dawson 
Series / Aspen Bundle Series
BOOKMARK
Book length
112 pages
Publication Date
2023-10-23
Edition
Third Edition
Teaching Materials
NO
Description

Print Bundle - This bundle includes both print and digital versions of ISBN 9781543858365 and a printed version of ISBN 9798889066941.

Digital Bundle - This bundle includes a digital-only version of ISBN 9798886144024 and a digital-only version of ISBN 9798889066958.

 

More about The Handbook for the New Legal Writer, the Third Edition is the practical guide to the foundational skills that law students need. With concise and easy-to-follow instructions, a variety of annotated examples, and the clarifying concept of “anchors,” the Handbook is a student-centered text that engages and accompanies students throughout the first-year legal writing course, and beyond.


Bundle also includes Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity, First Edition, which is Aspen’s concise primer intended to increase student awareness of the protocols, possibilities, and ethical implications of using AI systems in their legal education studies, while also giving professors assurance that their students are informed of the same.

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About the authors
Jill Barton
Professor of Legal Writing and Lecturer in Law
University of Miami

Professor Barton is a former appellate judicial clerk and an award-winning journalist. She earned her bachelor of journalism magna cum laude from the University of Missouri and also studied at Oxford University’s Keble College, where she founded and co-edited Ox-Tales, a compilation of students’ short stories.

Professor Barton worked as a journalist for more than a decade, mostly for the Associated Press (AP) and other news organizations in Florida. As an AP correspondent, she regularly published news stories in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Miami Herald. She later received her M.S. in journalism from the University of Kansas, where she taught advanced reporting, and her J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

In law school, Professor Barton received the West Publishing Award for Outstanding Scholarly Accomplishment and won the National Association of Women Lawyers student writing competition. She also served as managing editor of the UMKC Law Review and as a teaching assistant for the school’s legal writing program. Prior to joining the Miami Law faculty, Professor Barton clerked for Judge Leslie B. Rothenberg at Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal.

Professor Barton is also the author of "A Show Don’t Tell Lesson on Plain Language," 70 Clarity (2013).

Rachel H. Smith
Professor of Legal Writing and Lecturer in Law
University of Miami

Professor Smith completed her B.A. with honors at UC Santa Cruz and earned her J.D. at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2002. During law school, she was awarded a NAPIL/VISTA Summer Fellowship to work at the Legal Aid Society of Columbus, Ohio, and interned at Equal Rights Advocates in San Francisco, California. After graduation, Professor Smith worked at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, where she litigated a variety of complex cases in state and federal courts, primarily focusing on intellectual property disputes.

In 2007, Professor Smith joined the Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing Faculty at Santa Clara University School of Law and was awarded the Legal Research and Writing Professor of the Year Award in 2008 and 2010. In 2009, she won an ALWD Teaching Grant for a legal writing podcast series entitled 'Perk Up Your Pens.' She is the author of The Legal Writing Survival Guide (Carolina Academic Press 2012), a book that aims to help law students and lawyers solve common legal writing problems. Professor Smith has presented at national and regional legal writing conferences on issues relating to the use of technology to teach legal writing, the value of collaborating with other professors, and the need to inspire hope and positivity in the legal writing classroom. At Miami Law, she teaches in the Legal Communications and Research Skills program.

April G. Dawson

Widely regarded as an expert on the role of technology in legal edu- cation, April Dawson is Associate Dean of Technology and Innovation and Professor of Law at North Carolina Central University School of Law, where she oversees the NCCU Technology Law & Policy Center. Dean Dawson graduated cum laude from Howard University in 1994, where she was on the editorial board of the Howard Law Journal and a member of the National Moot Court Team. After law school, Dean Dawson joined the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she argued cases before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits. In 1996, Dean Dawson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, after which she joined a Washington, D.C., law firm as a litigation associate and was a legal writing adjunct at the George Washington University School of Law. In 1999, Dean Dawson moved to North Carolina to start a private practice dedicated to representing employees in cases involving sexual harassment, discrimination, and related disputes. In 2006, she joined the faculty at NCCU and has taught a wide range of classes, including Artificial Intelligence and the Law, Legal Technology Equity and Leadership, Constitutional Law, Supreme Court Seminar, Torts, Administrative Law, and Voting Rights. Dean Dawson has been voted Professor of the Year multiple times. Dean Dawson has presented several American Association of Law Schools (AALS) webinars such as Teaching with Technology for Maximum Student Engagement, Tech Productivity Tips for Law Faculty, and The Paperless Law Prof. She has served on the ABA TECHSHOW pan- els Skills Building: Best Practices for Teaching Tech to Law Students, and Tech Forward: New Jobs for New Lawyers. Dean Dawson was the recipient of the 2021 AALS Technology, Law and Legal Education Section Award, and was a 2022 ABA Women of Legal Tech Honoree. Dean Dawson’s interest in technology can be traced back to her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Bennett College and her work as a computer programmer prior to law school. Dean Dawson is a member of the ABA Center for Innovation Governing Council, cohost of the ABA Innovation Network Podcast, vice chair of the North Carolina Bar Association Future of Law Committee, and immediate past chair of the AALS Section on Technology, Law and Legal Education. She is also a member of the North Carolina Governor’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice, and vice chair of the Board of Directors for Democracy NC. Dean Dawson cohosts Legal Eagle Review radio show with her col- league, Irving Joyner, on WNCU 90.7 FM, in which weekly interviews shed light on law-related concerns for people in the local community, as well as at the state and national level.

Product Information
Edition
Third Edition
Publication date
2023-10-23
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
112
Print Bundle
9798892070980
Digital Bundle
9798892071512
Subject
Legal Writing
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