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The new volume of @JLWIonline is out! Read it here: https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/ . The volume starts with two sets of essays introduced by Lindsey Gustafson of @BowenLaw. This thread highlights the essays in the first set, on the theme "Disruption."
The set of essays starts with a bang! Prof. Sha-Shana Crichton of @howardlawschool describes the ways in which the protests after George Floyd's murder made her rethink how to reach her Gen Z law students through empathetic feedback and conversation. https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/2021/01/20/teaching-in-the-time-of-disruption-a-case-for-empathy-and-honoring-diversity/
Can we teach law students to tell counter-stories in order to disrupt deeply entrenched racial biases in the criminal justice system? This question, examined by @sherrileekeene of @GeorgetownLaw, is even more poignant after the Chauvin trial. https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/2021/01/20/making-room-for-ignored-citizen-narratives-of-police-encounters/
Prof. Emily Kline of @RutgersLaw reflects on how the pandemic and the #BlackLivesMatter 
movement inspired her to create legal writing assignments that bring context into the classroom -- and she reports back on the experience in a postscript. https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/2021/01/20/teaching-social-justice-in-the-legal-writing-classroom-through-personal-narrative/
movement inspired her to create legal writing assignments that bring context into the classroom -- and she reports back on the experience in a postscript. https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/2021/01/20/teaching-social-justice-in-the-legal-writing-classroom-through-personal-narrative/
Next, @sonyabonn and @ProfSueMcMahon of @GeorgetownLaw discuss how they are rethinking their legal writing course as "Disruption 101," giving students tools to question the legal system and improve it from the inside. https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/2021/01/20/disruptive-lawyering-101/
We need to make grief and trauma part of the conversation in the classroom, urges Prof. Iselin Gambert of @gwlaw. Her essay is at once deeply personal and universal, thoughtful and emotional, and is itself disruptive. https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/2021/01/23/trauma-is-not-an-add-on-on-embracing-grief-and-trauma-in-our-classrooms-and-our-lives/
Remember how we were all scrambling to transition to a remote learning environment a year ago, professors and students? @JusticeIsFemale of @UWF takes us back to that chaotic time and identifies positive outcomes that emerged from it. https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/2021/01/23/covid-19-disruption-and-teaching-practices/
Adding another positive note, @alison_mikkor of @UCILaw ponders the relationship between credibility, vulnerability, and trust, and how the relationship between professor and students shifted as she was teaching from her a makeshift desk in her bedroom. https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/2021/01/23/when-the-professor-has-no-clothes/
The essay by @HarmonyDecosimo of @Suffolk_Law opens with a vivid image (also involving a bedroom) that captures the experience of many a prof who has been parenting young kids through the pandemic. It ends with a call to action. https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/2021/01/25/professor-mom-the-pandemics-disruption-of-the-personal-professional-divide-in-legal-academia/
The first set of essays closes with an essay by my colleague @hilreed of @UHLAW. Her sincerity shines through as she describes her struggle to stay true to her teaching persona, while finding new ways to connect with students. https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/2021/01/25/the-disruption-of-my-teaching-persona/
