Names in the News

Gail Stephenson, Southern University Law Center director of legal writing, was a plenary speaker at the Lone Star Legal Writing Conference, held June 1 in Fort Worth, Texas. Stephenson presented on the topic, "Keeping It Real: Developing A Culturally and Personally Relevant Legal Writing Curriculum."

She moderated a panel discussion on Integrating Equity Pedagogy in the Classroom at the Association of Legal Writing Directors 2007 Biennial Conference on Best Practices in Teaching, Management, and Scholarship, June 16, in Denver, Colorado. On July 13, Stephenson spoke on legal writing at the Baton Rouge Bar Association's Sizzlin' Summer CLE in Baton Rouge

Brenda Wesley Jackson, director of Title III programs at Southern University, New Orleans, has been elected vice president of the National Association of HBCU Title III Administrators for 2007-09. Title III refers to a category of federal programs designed to aid historically black colleges and universities, as well as colleges for Native Americans, Alaskans and Hawaiians.