Archives for: May 2010, 05

Professor Amy R. Stein Serves as a Brief Judge for the Annual Scribes Best Brief Award Competition

May 5th, 2010
Professor Amy R. Stein served as a brief judge for the annual Scribes Best Brief Award Competition. Scribes, the American Society of Legal Writing, was founded in 1953 to honor legal writers and to encourage a “clear, succinct, and forceful style in lega… more »

Professor Alafair Burke Publishes "When Family Matters" in the Yale Law Journal

May 5th, 2010
The Feature comments on the book, Privilege or Punish: Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties, by Dan Markel, Jennifer Collins, and Ethan Leib, which documents the ways that criminal law advantages and burdens actors based on familial status a… more »