Newswise — More than 150 law professors, legal writing teachers and clinicians are gathering October 4-6 at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law for "Teaching Social Justice, Expanding Access to Justice: The Role of Legal Education and the Legal Profession," the 2012 Teaching Conference of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT).
"Teaching is at the center of legal education," says UM Carey Law Dean Phoebe A. Haddon, JD, LLM, former co-president of SALT and winner of its 2011 Great Teacher award. "It's an honor to bring this outstanding annual conference dedicated to the improvement of teaching to our law school." The full program is available as a PDF.
Prior to the Teaching Conference, SALT and LatCrit Inc. is co-sponsor the 10th annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop, designed to foster scholarship in progressive, social justice and critical outsider jurisprudence among new and junior faculty.
Other Maryland Carey Law faculty members participating in the conference include Peter Holland on teaching students how to apply fee shifting statutes to pro bono cases; Michael Millemann on collaborations between law schools and small firms to provide legal services to unrepresented clients; Michael Pinard on teaching the crisis of mass incarceration; Ellen Weber on the role of state policy research in legal education; and Doug Colbert, who served on the planning committee and will speak on the importance of instilling the value attorney representation at all steps of the legal process.
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