BRIEFS is the newsletter of the Midwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors. It is edited by
Dr. Consuelo Lopez-Springfield, of the University of Wisconsin - Madison. For more information
or to contribute to the newsletter, contact her at Editor, MAPLA BRIEFS,
1155 Observatory Drive, 25 Ingraham Hall, Madison, WI 53711
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.
- 
