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Courses

Reasoning, Writing, & Advocacy I, II
Advanced Appellate Advocacy
Advanced Legal Research
Advanced Legal Writing

Drafting for the General Practitioner
Moot Court Competition
Moot Court Travel Team (coach)

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Co-Editor, Legal Writing Prof Blog
 

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Developments Editor, The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process (1999-present)
 

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SSRN Legal Writing eJournal, Advisory Board (2008-present)
 

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WestGroup, Legal Research & Writing Advisory Board (2000-2007)
 

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Board of Directors, Legal Writing Institute (1999-2004)
 

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Board of Directors, Association of Legal Writing Directors (1999-2003)
 

Professor Coleen M. Barger  

bulletMember of UALR William H. Bowen School of Law faculty since 1992;
Professor of Law

 
bulletAcademic & Professional Publications: 

ALWD Citation Workbook (Aspen Publishers forthcoming)

Arkansas Legal Research (Carolina Academic Press 2007).

How to Make the Losing Oral Argument, Ark. Law 16 (Summer 2006).

EditingEssentials
(tutorials for law review editing) (TWEN) (2005) (co-authored with Judy Rosenbaum).

Book Review: Amicus Humoriae: An Anthology of Legal Humor, compiled by Robert M. Jarvis, Thomas E. Baker, & Andrew J. McClurg (Carolina Academic Press 2003), The Law Teacher 14 (Spring 2004).

On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Judge: Federal Appellate Courts' Use of Internet Sites, 4 J. App. Prac. & Process 417 (2002).

Preface, Expedited Appeals in Selected State Appellate Courts, 4 J. App. Prac. & Process 191-93 (2002).

Preface, Anastasoff, Unpublished Opinions, and "No Citation" Rules, 3 J. App. Prac. & Process 169-73 (2001) (issue exploring perspectives on constitutionality of judicial rules permitting or prohibiting citation of unpublished opinions).

Foreword, 2 J. App. Prac. & Process v-ix (2000) (issue devoted to technological developments in appellate courts and practice).

The Uncertain Status of Citation Reform: An Update for the Undecided, 1 J. App. Prac. & Process 59 (1999).

 Arkansas’s Putative Father Registry and Related Adoption Code Provisions: Inadequate Protection for Thwarted Putative Fathers, 1997 Ark. L. Notes 49 (co-authored with Kathryn A. Sampson & Kim Flanery Coates).

How to Write the Losing Brief, Ark. Law. 10 (Spring 1997).

Probate Law, Ark. Law. 16 (Jan. 1989) (co-authored with Jean D. Stockburger).

Debtor-Creditor Relations—Arkansas Fraudulent Transfer Act, 10 U. Ark. Little Rock L.J. 497 (1987-88).

bulletFaculty Excellence Award for Service, UALR School of Law 2000
 
bulletFaculty Excellence Award for Teaching, UALR School of Law 1996 & 2007
 
bulletEditor, JURIST Legal Research & Writing Subject Guide
 
bulletJURIST Dean’s List for Outstanding Law School Web Sites, 1998
 
bulletArkansas Bar Foundation Writing Excellence Award, for How to Write a Losing Brief, published in The Arkansas Lawyer, April 1996
 
bulletArkansas Bar Foundation Writing Excellence Award, for Probate Law, published in The Arkansas Lawyer, January 1989 (co-authored with Jean D. Stockburger)

 

 

bulletB.A., University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1973; J.D., University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1988
 
bulletLaw practice: Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,  Little Rock, AR, 1988-1992
 
bulletU.S. Coast Guard-licensed captain, 2005-present
 
bulletLong-distance boat cruising fanatic--see my web site, Voyages of the Calypso Poet