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AALS 2015

PLI was pleased to exhibit at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting.  This year’s meeting was in Washington, DC, where attendees and exhibitors alike enjoyed weather that was downright balmy compared to the blizzard that raged during the conference last year.  Many thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth! We really enjoyed meeting everyone and hearing about your experiences with PLI and PLI Discover PLUS.

We raffled a Brookstone Pocket Projector and I’m pleased to announce that Professor Norman Garland of Southwestern Law School was the lucky winner.  Congratulations, Professor Garland!  We hope you find the mobile projector a welcome addition to your teaching tool bag.

Read on to learn more about Professor Garland, his thoughts on PLI and on the AALS Annual Meeting, and how he plans on using the pocket projector he won in the raffle:

Describe your role at Southwestern Law School.  What do you teach?

I am a professor.  I teach evidence, constitutional criminal procedure and sometimes trial advocacy and advanced criminal procedure (bail to jail).  I am an avid user of technology in the classroom and out.  One of my latest activities is to teach evidence as a blended (or hybrid) course, meaning partially on-line and based on flipping the classroom.  I have done that 4 times and now am in the process of developing a similar class for constitutional criminal procedure.

What are your plans for the pocket projector?

All of our classrooms are equipped with the latest technological equipment, but I look forward to using the projector for travel, at meetings and conferences, and perhaps in tighter rooms in the law school.  Other than that, personal use might include projecting films and such when travelling, especially in hotel rooms.

What did you think of this year’s AALS meeting?  Please share one takeaway from the conference.

As usual, I did enjoy the AALS meeting this year.  I love DC.  I lived in DC for four years back in the day (1964-68).  I have been attending AALS meetings since 1968 (having missed only a year or two here and there).  This is the first time I have won anything from any of the booths, so that is a major highlight.  Also, I was sitting in the hallway waiting for a friend after a session and Justice Scalia walked by.  I did not recognize him quickly enough to greet him before he ambled by and, by then, his security team surrounded him so I would have not been able to approach him anyway.  Unfortunately, I did not attend the session he was participating in, but I heard he was quite entertaining as usual.

 

PLI Course Handbooks Published in June 2014

Listed below are the PLI Course Handbooks published in June 2014:

Corporate Law and Practice

Intellectual Property Law

Litigation and Administrative Law

Real Estate Law and Practice

Tax Law and Estate Planning

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2014 Practising Law Institute Discover PLUS Coverage List

coverage list 2014

The Practising Law Institute 2014 Discover PLUS coverage list is out!  Our coverage list is a reference guide for librarians, attorneys, researchers, and other PLI Discover PLUS subscribers.  Inside the catalog is a listing of the books, forms, and transcripts that are available through Discover PLUS.  PLI Discover PLUS contains all PLI published materials, including our authoritative Treatises, Answer Books, and Course Handbooks in addition to our forms and program transcripts.

PLI Treatises Updated in June 2014

In June 2014, PLI updated the following Treatises:

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Free One-Hour Briefing on Helping Child Migrants: Learn How to Represent Children Who Need Immigration and Family Court Assistance

June 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (E.D.T.)

You can participate in this One-Hour Briefing and learn how to volunteer as pro bono counsel for an immigrant child. In the past eight months, the Customs and Border Protection announced that more than 47,000 children have been apprehended at the Southern border and placed in deportation proceedings. In some immigration courts, 12 to 15% of the dockets are unaccompanied minor children. Sadly, there is no right to free counsel for children in immigration proceedings. The children are primarily arriving on the Southern border and come from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador but children are also sent, sometimes against their will from many countries including China, South Asia and the Caribbean. The median age of the children being apprehended in 2014 is approximately 14 but even toddlers have been arrested and placed into removal poceedings.

 
Please join Professor Lenni B. Benson, Director of the Safe Passage Project, Deborah Lee, Senior Staff Attorney, Immigration Intervention Project, Sanctuary for Families and Lisa Frydman, Associate Director and Managing Attorney, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, for a free One-Hour briefing on Representing Unaccompanied Children Who Need Immigration and Family Court Assistance, and learn how you, too, can help.

Attorneys of all backgrounds, expertise, and experience are welcome. No prior immigration experience is needed.