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- Expertise and the Law: Some
Recent Findings from the Cognitive Sciences About
Complex Information Processing, 16 T. MARSHALL
L. REV. 599 (1991).
- Legal Epistemology: A Philosophical
Inquiry into the Cognitive Structures and Processes of Legal
Problem Solving, paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the New Mexico and Southwest Texas Philosophical
Association, El Paso, Texas, April, 1994.
- Teaching Reading Skills to Law School
Students: How to Teach Cognitive Strategies to Facilitate
the Comprehension of Legal Texts, paper presented with
Professor Dannye Holley (Thurgood Marshall School of Law) at
the National Conference of Law School Teaching Methodology:
T/A and Faculty Training, sponsored by the UCLA School of
Law, Los Angeles, California, June, 1994.
- Teaching Cognitive Strategies to Law
School Students: Some Instructional Design Implications from
the Cognitive Sciences, paper presented with Professor
Dannye Holley (Thurgood Marshall School of Law) at the
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools.
New Orleans, Louisiana, January 1995.
- Teaching Law Students to Manage Symmetry
and Coherence in Legal Writing, paper presented at the
1998 Annual Meeting of the Legal Writing Institute,
sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Law, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, June, 1998.
- Some Notes for an Experientialist
Epistemology of Law: The Importance of Context, Metaphor,
and Imagination in Legal Reasoning and Analysis, paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the New Mexico and
Southwest Texas Philosophical Association, Dallas, Texas,
April, 2000.
- Dewey’s Theory of Legal Reasoning and
Judicial Decision-Making: A Logic of Social Action Relative
to Consequences and Antecedents, paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the New Mexico and Southwest Texas
Philosophical Association, University of New Mexico, April,
2001.
- Let's Argue about Argumentation: A
Reexamination of Rhetorical Devices and Logical Strategies
Used in Legal Writing, paper presented with Professor Terri
LeClerq (University of Texas School of Law) at the Legal
Writing Institute, University of Tennessee School of Law,
June 2002.
- Measuring the Learning-to-Learn Skills of
In-Coming Law Students: Helping Law Students Identify
Strengths and Weaknesses in Learning Styles, paper presented
at the Third Annual Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing
Conference, sponsored the University of New Mexico School of
Law, March, 2003.
- Using a Battery of Tests to Measure the
“Learning-to-Learn” Skills of In-Coming Law Students:
Identifying Areas for Educational Interventions That May
Benefit Law Students – Especially in Their Writing,
paper presented at the Lone Star Legal Writing Conference,
sponsored by the University of Texas School of Law, May,
2003.
- Collaborative Writing Projects:
Working with Doctrinal Colleagues to Improve Law School
Pedagogy, paper presented at Association of Legal Writing
Directors 2003 Conference - The Director as Leader:
Exercising Power Within and Beyond a Legal Writing Program,
sponsored by the Detroit Mercy School of Law and the
University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Windsor, Ontario,
Canada, July, 2003.
- Measuring the Critical Thinking Skills
of In-Coming Law Students: Helping Law Students Identify
Strengths and Weaknesses in Critical Thinking, paper
presented at the Central Region Legal Research & Writing/Lawyering
Skills Conference, sponsored by Washington University School
of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, September, 2003.
- Reading Skills for Law Students:
Teaching Cognitive Strategies to Facilitate the
Comprehension of Legal Texts, paper presented at the
Fourth Annual Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing
Conference, sponsored the William S. Boyd School of Law,
University of Nevada, March, 2004.
- Assistant Editor, Journal of Legal Writing
- Member, New Member Outreach Committee, The Legal Writing
Institute
- Member, Real Estate Forms Committee, The State Bar of Texas
- Legal Epistemology - The Organization and Structure of Legal
Knowledge, Especially the Cognitive Structures and Processes of
Legal Problem Solving, Reasoning, and Writing.
- Modeling Expertise, especially studies of:
- Acquisition and Use of Cognitive Strategies
- Elaboration of Learning Tactics and Conditions
- Representation of Complex Information in Schemas
- Assessment of Acquired Competencies
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