Faculty Research & Development Committee
Faculty Research & Development Committee Introduction | Archive of Previous Committee-Sponsored Events | Law Library Services for Faculty | Faculty Development Bibliography (pdf) | Faculty Colloquia 2009-20010; |Teaching Resources | Scholarship Resources | Comments
Welcome to the website for the Faculty Research & Development Committee of the University of Baltimore School of Law. This website contains a listing of Committee-sponsored events. It also contains an opportunity to submit comments and suggestions about the Committee's activities to the Committee chair, Prof. Audrey McFarlane. In addition, the website contains links to electronic resources relating to both law teaching and legal scholarship. This website will be updated periodically, as additional activities are planned and new materials become available.
Faculty Colloquia 2009-2010
- Sept. 3, 2009, Roundtable Discussion: What is Scholarship?
Since we are a faculty with a variety perspectives and areas of scholarship and we have quite a number of junior faculty members, the luncheon discussion will be an opportunity for each of us (and particularly the junior scholars) to hear the diverse perspectives about the scholarly inquiry. - Thurs. Sept. 24, 2009, Speaker – Lee Harris, Memphis Law School, A Democratic Theory of Shareholder Activism and Its Implications.
- Thurs. Oct. 8, 2009, Annual Distinguished Lecture on Teaching – Dorothy Brown, Emory Law School, If They Haven't Learned...Have You Really Taught? A video of the talk on reserve in the law library. It is on DVD and is in the Faculty Research & Development folder. You can view it using the Power DVD program on your office computer.
- Fri. Nov. 6, 2009, Speaker – David Post, Temple Law School, In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace
Law Teaching Resources
- Resources for Teaching Well with Power Point
The University of Notre Dame's Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning has compiled a nice set of resources and videos on using Power Point effectively. - Teaching Resources for Law Faculty
Professor Barbara Glesner Fines of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law has compiled a thorough guide to online resources for law school faculty. - Institute for Law School Teaching
Gonzaga University's Institute for Law School Teaching offers online information about law school teaching resources, conferences and its own newsletter, The Law Teacher.
Teaching Manuals:
- Bianco-Mathis & Chalofsky, The Adjunct Faculty Handbook (Sage Publications 1996).
- Hess & Friedland, Techniques for Teaching Law (Carolina Academic Press 1999).
- Schachter, The Law Professor's Handbook (Carolina Academic Press 2004).
Legal Scholarship Resources
Bill Richman's presentation on writing for law reviews. (If the link doesn't open properly, save to disk and open in Media Player).
Flagship Journals of US News Top-100 Law Schools
Law Schools 1-50
Law Schools 51-100
Websites with advice and directions on writing and publishing
Guide to Publishing Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
(a collection of links to sites on law reviews, legal writing and the submission process)
Writing for and Publishing in Law Reviews
(an annotated bibliography of websites, articles and books)
(concise advice on placing an article)
(Express online deliveries to law reviews)
Websites to help locate and choose law reviews
Washington & Lee Law School, Most-Cited Legal Periodicals
LexisNexis On-Line Directory of Law Reviews & Scholarly Legal Periodicals
Recent SSRN papers on law reviews
University of Baltimore Research Paper Series.
Allen K. Rostron, Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals (October 3, 2007)
Leah M. Christensen and Julie A. Oseid, Navigating the Law Review Article Selection Process: an empirical study of those with all the power--student editors, (August 2007)
Ronen Perry, The Relative Value of American Law Reviews: A Critical Appraisal of Ranking Methods, (November 2005)
[also published at: 11 Virginia Journal of Law and Technology (2006), and re-worked as: The Relative Value of American Law Reviews: Refinement and Implementation. 39 Connecticut Law Review 1 (2006)].
Alfred L. Brophy, The Relationship Between Law Review Citations and Law School Rankings, (December 2005)
[also published at: 39 Connecticut Law Review 43 (November 2006)].
Materials on scholarship from past AALS workshops for new law teachers:
Archetypal Legal Scholarship — A Field Guide (2006) [go to page 34 of document]
Martha Minow, Harvard University
Delivering The Ideas: Comments for New Legal Scholars (2005)
Ronald F. Wright, Wake Forest University
Scholarship I: Finding a Topic, Setting an Agenda (2004)
Marion Crain, University of North Carolina
The Nuts and Bolts of Scholarship, or the “New” Rules for Legal Scholars (2004)
Cheryl Hanna, Vermont Law School
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