The Conference on the Pedagogy of Legal Writing for Academics in Africa took
place on March 15-17, 2007, at the Fairview Hotel in
This website is intended primarily for the participants at the conference; however, if you are an academic in the U.S. or in Africa who is interested in promoting the effective teaching of legal writing and the exchange of ideas among U.S. and African academics, please feel free to use these resources. If you are interested in attending future conferences, please contact Mimi Samuel at Seattle University School of Law.
Join LWI: To join the Legal Writing Institute, please send your name, title, organization, address, city, state, zip, country, e-mail address, and telephone number to Yonna Shaw, by e-mail to Shaw_YW@Mercer.EDU, by snail mail to Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, 1021 Georgia Avenue, Macon, Georgia 31207, or by fax to 1 478 301-2649. For further information, please call 1 478 301-2622. You can find further information on the Legal Writing Institute at http://www.lwionline.org/.
Join APPEAL: APPEAL is a new organization that grew out of the Conference on the Pedagogy of Legal Writing for Academics in Africa. APPEAL is dedicated to promoting the exchange of ideas, information, and resources about the teaching of legal writing and effective advocacy among academics in the United States and academics in Africa. For more information and for a registration form, click here.
Evaluation Form: If you did not turn in an evaluation form at the conference, you can download one here and return it to Mimi.