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 The Legal Writing Institute (LWI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving legal writing by providing a forum for discussion and scholarship about legal writing, analysis, and research. LWI promotes these activities through its publications, workshops, specialty conferences, and the national biennial conferences held in even-numbered years. The Legal Writing Institute has over 2,100 members and includes representatives from 38 different countries. We are the second largest organization of law professors in the United States. Only the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) involves more members of the legal academic community. LWI sponsors many different working committees and projects.
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LWI Withdraws Golden Pen/Blackwell Reception from San Diego Hotel
The Board of Directors of LWI has unanimously agreed to withdraw the Blackwell/Golden Pen Reception from the San Diego Grand Hyatt Hotel during the AALS Annual Meeting currently scheduled for that location in January, 2009. The board took this action because the owner of the hotel, Douglas Manchester, has provided significant financial support to a group seeking to amend the California Constitution to prohibit gay and lesbian couples the right to marry, a position LWI has determined is in direct conflict with LWI's anti-discrimination policy. The text of the letter can be found here.
LWI letter sent to ABA Council regarding Security of Position
LWI has sent a letter in response to the ABA Special Committee Report on Security of Position.
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