The Istanbul Legal Skills Conference brought together professors from the United States and European Union to discuss legal writing skills with Turkish lawyers and law students. Bahcesehir University's Institute for Global Understanding in Law in Istanbul offers programs to Turkish lawyers that expose them to trends in law and legal education around the world. The Legal Writing Institute is the second-largest American organization of law professors, with members in 48 countries. LWI has offered programs to law professors, judges, and lawyers in the United States, London, Prague, and Nairobi.
Program
August 4
Beginning a legal skills program
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Baiba Broka, Latvia University Faculty of Law
August 5
IRAC: Large-scale organization in common-law analysis
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Peter Honigsberg, University of San Francisco School of Law
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Steve Johansen, Lewis & Clark University School of Law
Explaining Legal Rules
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Steve Greenberger, DePaul University College of Law
Theory of the case: developing a theme in legal writing
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Kirsten Dauphinais, University of North Dakota School of Law
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Michele Butts, Atlanta's John Marshall Law
Legislative drafting: American and international perspectives
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Suzanne Ehrenberg, Chicago-Kent School of Law
August 6:
Narrative in legal writing
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Jim Levy, Nova Southeastern University School of Law
International contract drafting
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Cynthia Adams, Indiana University School of Law (Indianapolis)
Judicial writing (judgments and opinions)
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Jean Rosenbluth, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
International advocacy
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Diane Edelman, Villanova University School of Law
August 7
Explaining Turkish law to US attorneys
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Nadia Nedzel, Southern University Law Center
Ethics in legal writing
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Arnie Siegel, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles
Alternative Dispute Resolution
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Kathleen Burch, Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
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John Mollenkamp, Cornell University School of Law
Legal writing program models in U.S. law schools
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Bobbie Thyfault, California Western School of Law
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Mimi Samuel, Seattle University School of Law
