Meeting at-a-Glance

Speakers:
Jane H. Aiken, Washington University
Dennis C. Jacobs, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
Rachel Moran, University of California at Berkeley
Carol M. Parker, University of Tennessee

This session will feature Professor Jacobs, who will share his work on issues of learning by minority and female students in large chemistry introductory courses. In addition, three law professors will describe a problem that led them into producing scholarship on teaching and learning and what resulted.

[5310] Legal Scholarship on Trial: Alice’s Adventures in Publications Wonderland

Judge: Rennard Strickland, University of Oregon

Prosecutor: Elliott S. Milstein, American University

Witnesses:
Taunya Lovell Banks, University of Maryland
Jean Braucher, University of Arizona
John Henry Schlegel, State University of New York at Buffalo
David B. Spence, Assistant Professor, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

This session will be presented in the form of a grand jury session, with a judge, prosecutor, and witnesses testifying about different aspects of legal scholarship. The audience will serve as the jury.

[5320] Technology and Scholarship: The World of E-Publishing

Speakers:
Robert C. Berring, University of California at Berkeley
Richard A. Danner, Duke University
Thomas Thurston, Project Director, Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York

Respondent: Kent D. Syverud, Vanderbilt University

Moderator: Joan S. Howland, University of Minnesota

This session will focus on the realities, potential opportunities, and challenges of utilizing technology to publish and disseminate scholarship and to encourage scholarly collaboration and intellectual debate. Different aspects of electronic publishing will be explored by three panelists, with a fourth speaker offering a critique of or response to the ideas presented.

[5330] The Roles of Politics and Ideology in Legal Scholarship

Speakers:
Margaret Chon, Seattle University
Jamin Ben Raskin, American University
Eugene Volokh, University of California at Los Angeles
Robert S. Westley, Tulane University

Moderator: Susan P. Sturm, Columbia University

The aim of this session is to provide a forum for the speakers to recount the “intellectual histories” of the scholarship that each has prominently produced. Currents of politics and ideology, which pervade this genre of scholarship, are often not surfaced in self-reflective ways. This session aspires to provide models for this type of important work.