Stephen A. Saltzburg Stephen A. Saltzburg, the Howrey Professor of Trial Advocacy, Litigation, and Professional Responsibility at George Washington University Law School, has received ALI-ABA’s 2000 Francis Rawle Award for outstanding achievement in post-admission legal education. The presentation was made on Sunday, July 9, in New York during a 5:00 p.m. ALI-ABA Committee reception honoring its lecturers and authors. The ALI-ABA reception was held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association. Professor Saltzburg has played an invaluable role in courses of study on trial evidence, civil practice, and effective litigation techniques for ALI-ABA, the American Bar Association, and the Federal Judicial Center, as well as at Circuit Judicial Conferences. He also created the University of Virginia Trial Advocacy Institute, an intensive nine-day course of study that includes hands-on trial practice exercises, lectures, and demonstrations by prominent judges and lawyers. He replicated that success at George Washington University with a spring program that blossomed into an innovative Masters Degree program in Litigation and Dispute Resolution. As a result he now single-handedly coordinates two major continuing legal education practice programs for practitioners at two separate law schools. A leading authority in the law of evidence in the United States today, Professor Saltzburg is also a preeminent expert in the fields of Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Trial Advocacy Education, and Professionalism. He has published more than 20 books on procedure, advocacy, evidence, jury instructions, and international human rights, and he has written more than 70 articles in these areas. In addition to the presentation of the Rawle Award, Professor Ronald L. Carlson of the University of Georgia School of Law and William G. Young, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, received Harrison Tweed Awards for Special Merit in CLE at the July 9 reception. |