Family Law Education Reform (FLER) website and conference

Family Law Education Reform (FLER) project website and to invite you to attend “The Future of Family Law Education” conference.

1.  The FLER project website is up and running.  It contains family law skills exercises, sample course syllabi, and other teaching resources for you to download.  To access the website, please go to www.flerproject.org, and establish a log-in and password.  Click on the “Create new account” link in the left column.

Many of you have already contributed to the website, and we appreciate your enthusiastic response.  Please continue to contribute teaching ideas and materials to the site.

2.  You are also invited to participate in “The Future of Family Law Education” conference which will be held on Friday, June 26 at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.  

Do you have family law teaching ideas that you are willing to share? Would you like to talk with other professors about successes and frustrations related to teaching family law courses? This conference is for you!   We encourage you to develop proposals for workshops on issues in family law education.    Please send  proposals to Nancy Ver Steegh at [email protected]  before March 1, 2009.  Workshop proposals should include a 200 word abstract, a one-page outline, three learning objectives, and  contact information for all presenters.  Selected workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the Family Court Review.

Please watch for more information at the conference website http://www.wmitchell.edu/family-law/conference/ . 

 Thank you.  Please le us know if you have any questions.

 

The Editorial Committee for the FLER Website:

·        Naomi Cahn, George Washington University Law School

·        Andrew Schepard, Hofstra Law School

·        Nancy Ver Steegh, William Mitchell College of Law

·        Peter Salem, Executive Director, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

 

“The Future of Family Law Education” conference is sponsored by The Midwest Family Law Consortium: Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis; University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law; and William Mitchell College of Law; with the Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Minnesota Chapter; the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts; and Hofstra University School of Law, Center for Children, Families, and the Law.