BRIEFS is the newsletter of the Midwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors. It is currently co-edited by edited by Adekemi Faleti-Dosunmu, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and RJ Holmes, of Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA. For more information
or to contribute to the newsletter, contact either of them - contact Adekemi Faleti-Dosunmu at afaleti@uic.edu or contact RJ Holmes at rholmes@cornellcollege.edu.
BRIEFS is sent to all MAPLA members. We intend to post articles
from past issues on this site, which is currently:
Two samples of the many excellent articles that have appeared in BRIEFS are currently available, in two formats. Note that one is an image of the published article in a web page and the other is an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file, which requires the Adobe Reader (version 5 or later), which is available gratis at:
Setting Up a Moot Court Team
The first sample is an article by Mark Weaver, Professor of Political Science and Coach of the Wooster Moot Court Team, on Setting Up a Moot Court Team. Along with it is an article by one of his students, describing Moot Court: A Student's Perspective.
BRIEFS (Winter 2004) The second sample is a complete edition of BRIEFS (Winter 2004) that features three articles, including:Parents! A Survival Guide, by Kathy Uradnik, Associate Professor of Political Science at St. Cloud
University; The Personal Statement: One Person's View, by Collins Byrd, now the Assistant Dean of Admissions at The University of Iowa College of Law; and finally, an article on The ABC's of IP or, Pre-Law Advising in the Information and Technology Age, by Professor Thomas J. Field, Jr. of the Franklin Pierce Law Center.
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