Professor Coleen Barger (center), holding the flowers sent by the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute, with two fellow members of Bowen’s legal writing faculty: Assistant Professor George Mader (l) and Associate Professor Terrence Cain (r).
Coleen Miller Barger, the Ben J. Altheimer Distinguished Professor of Law, is set to receive the Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing.
Presented annually by the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute, the prestigious award is given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to improve the field of Legal Writing.
Among the criteria to receive the award are an ability to nurture and motivate students to excellence; willingness to help other legal writing educators improve their teaching skills or legal writing programs; and an ability to create and integrate new ideas for teaching and motivating legal writing educators and students.
Letters of nomination praised Professor Barger’s dedication, mentoring, and motivation and support, not just to students, but to legal writing colleagues and professional organizations.
“This praise is well-deserved, but it is not news to us at Bowen,” said Dean Michael Hunter Schwartz.
“Professor Barger’s well-known dedication to excellence is evidenced by her teaching, her mentoring of her students, her scholarship, and her service to both her colleagues at Bowen and elsewhere. She is an asset to the law school and to the Arkansas legal community, as well as to the legal education community as a whole.” Read the rest of the story.
