Craig Hoffman
- In November, Professor Hoffman traveled with Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor to visit Georgetown Law LLM alumni in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
- During the Spring 2023 semester Prof. Hoffman will teach a law and linguistics course in which students will examine originalism from a linguistic perspective.
Yi Song
- Professor Song’s essay Lawyering While Chinese will be published in the book Fostering First Gen Success and Inclusion: A Guide for Law School by Carolina Academic Press forthcoming February 2023.
John Dundon
- In August Professor Dundon was awarded the IE Prize for Teaching Excellence for his Contract Drafting class that he taught over the summer at IE University Law School (Madrid, Spain)
- He has also been invited to present at the:
- Legal Writing Institute: Advancing Simulation-Based Pedagogy, hosted by Fordham University Law School; presentation titled Approaching Contract Drafting and Email Writing Through a Simulated Law Firm Experience (New York, NY; December 2022); and for the
- 2023 AAAL Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics; presentation titled Challenging monolingual ideology in the U.S. judicial system: A proposal for multilingual courts (Portland, OR; March 2023)
Julie Lake & Heather Weger
Prof. Lake and Prof. Weger have been invited to co-present at the following conferences:
- Washington Area TESOL (WATESOL) Fall 2022 Conference; Presentation titled “A Guide for Training Autonomous Student Writers”
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Spring 2023 International Convention
- Presentation titled “Removing the Training Wheels: Encouraging Student Writers to Take Charge”
- Presentation titled “Ditching Traditional Feedback Practices: Assessment through an Asset-Based Lens”
- Prof. Weger has also been invited to present at the Washington Area TESOL Fall 2022 Conference; Presentation titled, “Expressing Your Teacher Voice: A Framework for Exploring Professional-Identity Development”
- Building on their presentations, Prof. Lake is writing an article for TESOL’s AL Forum (forthcoming, March 2023).
- Profs. Lake and Weger continue to innovate their Fundamentals of Legal Writing II course, which focuses on the scholarly legal writing genre.
Paula Klammer
- Prof. Klammer held a Zoom session in December with Brazilian law students at Pontíficia Universidade Católica de São Paulo explaining the how LLM programs work at US law schools as well as the different LLM programs at Georgetown Law:
Stephen Horowitz
- Co-presented with Prof. Daniel Edelson (Seton Hall Law) to the NY Bar Association’s Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar (“NYCLEAB“) on the topic “Online education for foreign-educated LLM students” (Nov. 16, 2022)
- Presented online webinar for Tashkent State University of Law on the topic “The Benefits of Extensive Reading & Listening in Studying Law in English”
- Organized a “Legal English Book Club” discussion with guest Alissa Hartig, Professor of Linguistics at Portland State University, on her use of Jeffrey P. Kaplan’s book Linguistics and Law in her course on linguistics and law titled, You Have the Right to Remain Silent: Language and the Law. (Dec. 7, 2022)
- Interviewed Georgetown Law professors of legal writing Eun Hee Han and Jonah Perlin for the Multilingual Lawyer series for the USLawEssentials Law & Language Podcast. The episode (to be published in January) focused on international students in legal writing courses.
- Completed co-teaching (with Prof. Daniel Edelson, Seton Hall Law) a 10-week online legal English course titled “Reading US Cases” for Ukrainian graduate law students at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. (The course was part of a larger initiative born by collaboration between USAID and the Global Legal Skills community through which a number of US law professors have been teaching courses, giving guest lectures, and supporting English language law publication for law schools in Ukraine.)
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