On Sabbatical During Spring Term 2012

During the spring semester 2012 I will be on sabbatical. During this time I will be working with colleagues in Brazil, Curacao, Macau, Oxford, Belgrade, and Turkey. It will be a busy time, but I hope it will be productive as well.

Law and Interpretation Panel at AALS Annual Meeting

On January 6, 2012 I spoke on a panel entitled "Law as a Discourse Community: Critical Perspectives on Legal Discourse" at the AALS Annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The panel was the program for the Law and Interpretation Section, which I chaired for the last 18 months. The panel was co-sponsored by the section on Legal Research, Reasoning, and Writing. Other speakers included Teresa Godwin Phelps (American University), Teri McMurtry-Chubb (Laverne), and David Caudill (Villanova). Papers from this panel, and additional commentaries to be produced by scholars in the field, will be published in book form by Carolina Academic Press later this year.