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AALS Poster Project: Judith FIscher’s Got Issues? An Empirical Study about Framing Them

Judith Fischer presented the poster Got Issues? An Empirical Study about Framing Them (Download Fischer Poster):

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Professor Fischer

 is a professor at the University of Lousiville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, where she teaches Basic Legal Skills and Women and the Law. Professor Fischer serves on the editorial boards of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute and Kentucky’s Bench and Bar Journal. She also has presented programs on legal writing at national conferences and has taught continuing legal education courses in Kentucky, California, and Ohio, and Oregon. 

Her publications include:

Framing Gender: Federal Appellate Judges’ Choices About Gender-Neutral Language, 43 U.S.F. L. Rev. 473 (2009);

Why George Orwell’s Ideas About Language Still Matter for Lawyers, 68 Mont. L. Rev. 129 (2007); and 

God and Caesar in the Twenty-First Century: What Recent Cases Say About Church-State Relations in England and the United States, 18 Fla. J. Int’l L. 485 (2006)

According to Professor Fischer, the poster is the result of empirical research she did on laywers’ issue statements.

-CM