2/04/08--Professor Jane Kent Gionfriddo has been appointed the editor-in-chief for the new monograph series to be published under the auspices of the Legal Writing Institute, an organization devoted to teaching, curriculum and scholarship in the discipline of legal analysis and writing both in this country and internationally.  Her initial project will be a monograph including articles discussing effective feedback on student legal writing, which will be published electronically on the organization's website at www.lwionline.org.

The goals and benefits of the new series include:

• supporting new legal writing teachers in learning their craft
• helping new teachers avoid "reinventing the wheel"
• providing new and experienced easy access to articles with different points of view about the same topic
• serving as a basic reference tool and a foundation for further scholarship in the same or related areas
• offering significant "PR" about the intellectual depth of the legal writing community to faculty and administrators in legal education generally
• giving publication and republication opportunities for legal writing professionals
  

Monograph committee members include Co-Chairs, Steve Johansen (Lewis & Clark) & Gionfriddo (Boston College); Members, Susan DeJarnatt (Temple), Kathleen Elliott Vinson (Suffolk), and Allison Julien (Marquette).