Professor Miriam Albert was a presenter at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual meeting on August 4th. Professor Albert spoke on a panel entitled “Innovative Teaching Techniques for Clinical and Skills Courses,” one of several Teaching Technique Workshops at the conference. She spoke about the challenges of cleanly characterizing teaching as pure skills or pure doctrine, the political and pedagogical dramas that may ensue, and the challenges of adopting a “skills requirement” in light of the inevitable overlap between skills and doctrine.

Professor Barbara Stark presented an overview of international adoption from a U.S. perspective, along with a review of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, to a U.S. State Department-sponsored delegation from Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic at Hofstra on August 9th.

Professor Andrew Schepard participated in the Families Matter Symposium at the University of Baltimore School of Law organized by the American Bar Association Section on Family Law from June 24th to 25th. The purpose of the Symposium was to convene national leaders from different disciplines to create an agenda for “changing the practice of family law from an adversarial and divisive process to one that focuses on methods that are less destructive to families and children.”

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Professor Miriam Albert was a presenter at Emory University School of Law’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice’s biannual conference “Transactional Education: What’s Next” on June 5. Professor Albert was featured in an “Exercise Showcase” where she demonstrated how to include a significant skills component in a traditional doctrinal case analysis, even in a large classroom setting; she offered a new way to think about both teaching doctrinal transactional law, and teaching transactional skills law- highlighting the overlaps and synergies, to help erode the divide between these two conceptually-linked areas of teaching.

Associate Professor of Legal Writing, Susan Joffe delivered a presentation to the Education Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association on “Risks and Opportunities: The Interview and Selection Process” on June 15. The presentation focused on complying with legal guidelines while gathering necessary and relevant information for effective hiring decisions.

Susan Joffe is also serving as a judge for the 2010 Scribes Brief Writing Award Competition for Scribes, the American Society of Legal Writers.