Nairobi

Lisa Hatlen of Marquette engages the group with a session on writing effective paragraphs and sentences.  Her exercise on "stuffed sentences" and sentence bloatedness level engaged everyone in a round of sentence revision.(njs)

Conference sessions started on Thursday with a welcome by Laurel Oates and Mimi Samuel of Seattle University.  The first session, Models for Teaching Legal Writing, introduced various ways to design LRW courses as to both staffing and basic course structure. 

The Conference on Legal Writing Pedagogy for African Legal Academics begins tomorrow, Wednesday, in Nairobi.  About 20 American and 40 African law professors will be participating.The road to Nairobi has been an experience, filled with safari and friends and an