Legal Writing

Scaffolding the New Social Literacies for K-12
My Multimedia and Internet @ Schools Pipeline Column for the Mar. / Apr. 2008 issue addresses some of the questions around teaching K-12 learners how to handle the social world online...

"Financial Literacy" Including Insurance.
Financial literacy is absolutely necessary in the United States to our survival as a nation, there can be no doubt. The idea of adding the teaching of the basics of finance, "financial literacy," to the core curriculum at some level...

Predicting Adult Literacy in Canada
A new report on literacy in Canada was released by the Canadian Council on Learning on June 12th. ?Reading the Future is the first report of its kind in Canada. It provides: Canada's first projections of adult literacy levels, through to 2031; an unprecedented look?more detailed than ever before?at the ?face? of low literacy; and effective approaches to improve literacy among six identified groups...

Most Read Legal Literacy Blog Posts of 2008
It will be 2009 before you know it and I want to take this opportunity to thank my growing list of Legal Literacy fans.  As you can see by the map in the lower right hand corner of this page, Legal Literacy’s reach is growing daily...

BLAWG REVIEW #176
Today, September 8th, is International Literacy Day.  We typically think of the 3 Rs (reading, writing and ‘rithmetic) as a minimum requirement for literacy yet millions of people throughout the world are still denied this basic education...

Willis on Financial Literacy Education
Lauren E. Willis (Loyola Law School Los Angeles) has posted Evidence and Ideology in Assessing the Effectiveness of Financial Literacy Education (Journal of Consumer Affairs, Vol. 42, May 2008) on SSRN...

Apple Inc.
allegedly maintained an illegal monopoly on the digital music market.

Media/Telecom
consumer rights involving print, radio, television, video, DVD, video games, and mobile telephones.