PROFESSOR BLASIE ACCEPTED TO PRESENT AT 2021 SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS (SEALS) WORK-IN-PROGRESS PROGRAM
January 2020 — Professor Michael Blasie’s law review article was recently accepted into the 2021 Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Work-in-Progress Program. The article, tentatively titled The Laws, Policies, Effects, and Risks That Mandate Versatile Writing, examines the migration of legal writing from soft skills advice to codified and empirically verified standards.
The SEALS program is part of an annual conference that draws law school professors from across the country. Building on his decade of litigation experience and prior publications on persuasive writing, Professor Blasie’s workshop presentation provides a chance to present in an academic setting while adding contextual legal writing insights he initially acquired when teaching practitioners.
Professor Michael Blasie brings his decade of litigation experience in trial and appellate courts to researching and teaching legal writing. His scholarship focuses on persuasive writing and the phrasing of legal standards. He has authored a seventeen-part legal writing series for practitioners, co-authored the treatise on Colorado Appellate Law and Practice, and published his scholarship in the New York University Annual Survey of American Law and the DePaul Law Review.