The Fred Gray Civil Rights Writing Competition is a new national writing competition honoring the extraordinary contributions of Fred Gray to the civil rights movement. Fred Gray is a renowned civil rights attorney who played a pivotal role in numerous
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Widener University Delaware Law School is Hiring and Looking for Visitors
Widener University Delaware Law School, located in Wilmington, Delaware, currently has multiple full-time, tenure-track faculty opportunities available to begin January 1, 2025, or July 1, 2025. Applications for visitors for the upcoming Spring 2025 Semester are also welcome.They welcome applications…
Students at DePaul and Elon Win Disability Law Writing Competition
The Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition is a national disability law writing competition sponsored by the Mercer University School of Law and the ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. The competition honors the work of the…
Georgetown Law is Hiring
Georgetown Law seeks a full-time faculty member to teach in their first-year Legal Practice program. The position starts July 1, 2025. The faculty member will teach two sections of the first-year course. Each section meets with the professor two hours…
2025 Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
The 2025 problem for the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is scheduled to be released within the next 24 hours. Click here for more information.Approximately 700 schools from 100 countries are expected to participate in the…
Dayton is Hiring
The University of Dayton School of Law invites applications for multiple tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin August 16, 2025. Areas of need include contracts, business organizations, torts, criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, family law, property, wills and trusts, secured…
Case Western Reserve is Hiring
Case Western Reserve University School of Law is accepting applications for a Lawyering Skills Assistant Professor position beginning July 2025 to teach in its Legal Writing, Leadership, Experiential Education, Advocacy, and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) program. Click here for more information.(mew)
Avoiding the Word Salad Bar
Gregg Hake has some advice for avoiding "word salad," that mixture of unintelligible, incoherent, empty words.
The short article has some best practices and exercises for writing and for avoiding word salad, such as watching a movie or reading
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The Legal System and Legislation of Bhutan
Laws on Happiness: The Legal System and Legislation of BhutanThe next foreign, international, and comparative law webinar at the Law Library of Congress will be “Laws on Happiness: The Legal System and Legislation of Bhutan," on Thursday, July 18,…