Two College of Law Faculty Elected to Serve on National Boards

Heather Baxter, Professor of Law and Director of Legal Research and Writing, was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) for a four-year term beginning in 2022. LWI is the second-largest organization of law professors in the United States with nearly 3000 members. According to its website, LWI is “dedicated to improving legal communication, building the discipline of legal writing, and improving the status of legal writing faculty across the country.”

Prof. Baxter has been very active in the legal writing community, including formerly chairing LWI’s Teaching Resources Committee and ALWD’s Blackwell Award Reception Committee. She currently serves on the ALWD Leadership and Development Committee, and the Diversity Committee of the Legal Writing, Research and Reasoning (LWRR) Sectionof AALS. In addition to legal writing, Prof. Baxter also teaches Criminal Procedure and Appellate Advocacy, and she serves as Nova’s Moot Court Faculty Adviser.

Jane Ellen Cross, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Diversity Inclusion, & Public Impact and Director of the Caribbean Law Program, has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD). ALWD is one of the preeminent national professional associations for lawyering skills and legal writing professors.

Prof. Cross been actively involved in ALWD as the Chair of the Innovative Programming Committee for the ALWD 2021 Conference and currently serves as the co-chair of the ALWD Diversity Committee. She is also on the Governing Board of the Legal Writing Institute’s Sirico Scholars’ Workshop and serves as the 2022 Program Coordinator.  Finally, Prof. Cross was selected to serve on the Program Committee for the Legal Writing, Research and Reasoning (LWRR) Section of AALS.

Posted 06/05/22