Professor Borman’s Scholarship & Service

Professor Deborah Borman received the ALWD Outstanding Service Award and LWI Mongraph Award for Outstanding Service from the Association of Legal Writing Directors and Legal Writing Institute at the organization’s Legal Writing Institute 2018 Biennial Conference on July 2018. Received Outstanding Service Awards from the Association of Legal Writing Directors for work with the Publications … Professor Borman Receives Two Awards

Levy, James. The evils of rubrics – a new article by Professor Debbie Borman called “De-grading Assessment: Rejecting Rubrics in Favor of Authentic Analysis“. Legal Skills Prof Blog (July 20, 2018). Instead of a reductionist approach, we should be asking students to spend even more time and effort trying to sort out what makes a … Professor Borman’s article on Legal Skills Prof Blog

Borman, Deborah L., End of the Line, Spring 2018 Second Draft, Volume 31, No. 1 The Second Draft 27 (2018). The authors, Deborah L. Borman and Kimberly Y.W. Holst, advocate to cease underlining citations in legal documents.

Borman, Deborah L., De-Grading Assessment: Rejecting Rubrics in Favor of Authentic Analysis, 41 Seattle U. L.Rev 713 (2018) Seattle University Law Review 713 (2018). A holistic approach to grading and evaluating legal analytical writing, including engaging in authentic conversations about writing, leads to more comprehensible written work product and ultimately better lawyering.