Scholarship Research Grants
2010 LEGAL WRITING SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS,
SPONSORED BY LWI & ALWD
ANNOUNCEMENT AND APPLICATION PROCEDURES
The Legal Writing Institute (LWI) and the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) are pleased to announce the Legal Writing Scholarship Grants for teachers of legal research and writing for 2010. These grants reflect the two organizations' commitment to the professional development of legal research and writing professionals.
Each year, ALWD & LWI award several research grants to legal research and writing teachers. These research grants enable gifted educators to spend their summers exploring scholarly ideas of interest to them and to produce scholarship that will assist others in the field. The grants also provide evidence of the two organizations’ support for the scholarly pursuits of legal research and writing professionals.
In the past, the grants have varied from $2000 to $5000. The number of grants awarded depends on the quality of the applications and funds available. The organizations award as many grants as feasible each year. Royalties from the ALWD Citation Manual are the primary source of ALWD funding each year.
For 2010, LexisNexis is pleased to support the ALWD/LWI Scholarship Grant program by offering $10,000 in incremental funding. The LexisNexis contribution of $10,000 is in addition to the grant money supplied by ALWD and LWI. LexisNexis also publishes Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. ALWD thanks LexisNexis for all of its support of scholarship related to legal research and writing.
An additional benefit is that papers supported by the Legal Writing Scholarship Grants sponsored by LWI & ALWD may be presented by the author at either the ALWD conference or the LWI biennial conference, but not both, by applying when ALWD or LWI sends out their next call for presentation proposals; such papers will be guaranteed a presentation slot at one of those conferences.
In 2009 LWI and ALWD cooperatively evaluated and chose five applications to fund. For the 2009 awards, the two organizations invested $19,000 in promoting scholarship projects by legal writing and research professors; in 2008, that number was $17,500.
The joint ALWD-LWI committee that awards grants consists of two groups that function independently. Voters are the committee members who blindly review and score grant applications. Mentors, the other committee members, are mentors for the application process. Applicants may approach the mentors for advice on the grant application. Mentors will not score applications or participate in any way in deciding who receives a grant. Application mentors for the 2010 application process are: Christine Venter (Notre Dame); Terry Pollman (UNLV); Karin Mika (Cleveland Marshall); Amy Dillard (Baltimore); Kathy Stanchi (Temple); Lisa Eichorn (South Carolina); and Sarah Ricks (Rutgers-Camden).
View application procedures here.