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<img src="/site/files/oldnewsfiles/LegalMethods2014SumConf350px.jpg" width="350" height="428" alt="LegalMethods2014SumConf350px"><p><span class="Caption">Professors David Raeker-Jordan, Anna Hemingway, Amanda Smith, and Dionne Anthon.</span></p>
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The Legal Writing Institute held its 16th Biennial Conference in Philadelphia, PA from June 29 to July 2, 2014. The 2014 Conference offered a collegial and collaborative setting for legal writing faculty and enthusiasts to share ideas about scholarship, teaching, and advancing the profession. The conference program provided opportunities for both new and veteran professors by offering presentations in a variety of formats and topics.<br><br>Widener Law faculty made several presentations at the Conference. <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesHbg/AnthonDionneE.aspx">Dionne Anthon</a> and <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesHbg/SmithAmanda.aspx">Amanda Smith</a> from the Harrisburg Campus presented “Judge for Yourself: Designing a Judicial Writing Course.” <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesHbg/RaekerJordanDavid.aspx">David Raeker-Jordan</a> and Jennifer Lear, Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University School of Law, presented “Team-Based Learning 101.” <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesHbg/HemingwayAnnaP.aspx">Anna Hemingway</a> facilitated “You are Already Writing an Article” on behalf of the LWI Scholarship Development and Outreach Committee and participated as a mentor in the Scholarship Speed Mentoring presentation.<br><br>Delaware Legal Writing faculty <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/FerrellIvaJohnson.aspx">Iva Ferrell</a> and <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/KingSusanA.aspx">Susan King</a> presented “Calibrated Peer Review” and <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/SbargeJeanK.aspx">Jean Sbarge</a> presented “The Read Shoes: Stepping into the Reader’s Shoes through Video, Case Illustration, Drawing and a Model.”<br><br>The conference provided a spotlight session with Supreme Court advocates, hot topics in legal education, and a track for scholarship. Widener Law faculty contributed by providing innovative classroom ideas, guidance on scholarship, and assistance in developing new courses.<br><br>The Legal Writing Institute is a nonprofit corporation, and the 2014 Conference took place 30 years after the first conference was organized by the founders. The Institute’s purpose is to encourage the exchange of ideas about legal writing and to provide a forum for legal writing scholarship and discourse. It is the second largest organization of law professors in the United States and has over 2800 members representing ABA-accredited law schools.