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Professor Hillary Burgess Ranks #1 Top Paper in 7 SSRN eJournals for Recent Downloads

June 9th, 2010
Professor Hillary Burgess ranked in the #1 slot of recent downloads for the seven (7) SSRN eJournals, including Cognitive Science Network: Law and Legal Writing. Additionally, she holds the #2 slot for the three (3) SSRN ejournals, including Law Educat… more »

Hillary Burgess Invited to Speak at University of Connecticut

June 1st, 2010
Professor Hillary Burgess was invited to speak to the Honors Pre-Law Students at the University of Connecticut about how students can best prepare for law school and the practice of law. Her presentation was directed to over a dozen honors pre-law stude… more »

Hillary Burgess Presents, “Structured Peer Feedback: Creating Experts from Novice Learners”

June 1st, 2010
Professor Hillary Burgess presented Structured Peer Feedback: Creating Experts from Novice Learners at the Empire State Legal Writing Conference. She reviewed some experientially validated techniques of using peer feedback within the law school context… more »

Professor Hillary Burgess Presents “Using Wikis in Academic Support Programs” at the ASP Training Workshop

June 1st, 2010
Professor Hillary Burgess presented a training on how to wikis to support learning in law school. The training focused on meeting the objectives of Best Practices and Educating Lawyers by providing more feedback, more professional development training,… more »

Professor Hillary Burgess Presents at Global Legal Skills Conference

April 28th, 2010
Professor Hillary Burgess presented at the Global Legal Skills conference, an international conference with participants from over thirty US law schools and ten countries. Her presentation focused on the conversational style differences between geograph… more »

Professor Hillary Burgess Writes “Deepening the Discourse Using the Legal Mind’s Eye”

April 22nd, 2010
Professor Hillary Burgess posted her paper, “Deepening the Discourse Using the Legal Mind’s Eye: Lessons from Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, and Educational Psychology that Optimize Law School Learning,” to SSRN. The article has been accepted by Q… more »

Professor Hillary L. Burgess Presents "Thank You for Adding Diversity, Now Conform" at AALS

January 28th, 2010
Professor Hillary L. Burgess presented "Thank You for Adding Diversity, Now Conform: Understanding How Conversational Styles Can Impact Student Advising, Mentoring, and Classroom Participation" as a poster, sponsored by the Section on Minorities, at the… more »

Professor Hillary L. Burgess Publishes Academic Support Newsletter Featuring Articles by Professors Susan H. Joffe and J. Herbie DiFonzo

January 27th, 2010
Professor Hillary L. Burgess co-edited and published the AALS Section of Academic Support Newsletter, The Learning Curve, with Professor Corie Rosen (ASU). Professor Burgess was invited to restore the publication after the publication was on hiatus for… more »

Professor Hillary Burgess Presents on AALS Panel

January 25th, 2010
Professor Hillary Burgess presented on a panel at AALS. Professor Burgess was selected from over forty proposals to present her topic, Designing Effective and Efficient Peer Exercises, with Susan Keller (Western State). The presentation focused on how… more »

Professor Hillary Burgess Cited In Journal Article Turned Book

December 15th, 2009
Professor Hillary Burgess was cited in the Katz & O’Neill journal article entitled, Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching: A Primer for New (and Not So New) Professors, a journal article that has been downloaded over 1,300 times on SSRN.… more »