The blog has featured a few posts lately on the role and purpose of ADR Law Prof’s scholarship (e.g., here, here and here). Yesterday, at the New York State Judicial Institute at Pace Law School, Professor John Nolon, Director of Pace’s Kheel Center on the Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes and the rest of his planning committee (Elizabeth Burleson and Lin Harmon of Pace; Keith Hirokawa of Albany, and Uma Outka of Kansas) produced and hosted an invitation-only symposium on Engaged Scholarship. The Symposium was a follow-up to last year’s highly successful “Practically Grounded” conference on engaged teaching sponsored by Pace’s Land Use Law Center. Twenty scholars from law schools across the country gathered for a series of small group discussions on how we can better produce engaged scholarship that informs and is integrated with our teaching, engages with students, and tackles the critical problems of the day. The innovative format combined with the energy in the room led to productive and stimulating conversations about the role of engaged scholarship in the legal academy. Many of those conversations directly related to the role of both engaged teaching and engaged scholarship in teaching our students to be practical problem-solvers, a goal I suspect many of us share.
I am proud to have been part of the important conversation.
The symposium on Engaged Scholariship sounds very informative.
Would also be interested in getting a copy. Practical problem-solving is a big issue in our internet age. Would be interesting to hear some new approaches.
Yes, the conference organizers are planning on co-authoring an article containing reflections from many of the conference attendees. As they work out the details, I will post information on this blog.
Will the conference produce a white paper or any other materials that those of us who weren’t there can get our hands on?