In recognition of her great work, she was invited (and accepted) to co-chair the FDW Committee for LatCrit XVI in 2011, which will be held in San Diego. At LatCrit she spoke on two panels, one directed at diversifying the legal academy and the other directed at status issues affecting critical, progressive, and social justice oriented scholars and law teachers along multiple axes.

And most recently, she served on the Junior Faculty Development Workshop Committee for the 15th Annual LatCrit Conference, which took place at the University of Denver in early October. In September, she spoke at the 2010 National People of Color Conference about paths to academia for under-represented groups. non-originalism and advances more substantive discussions about constitutional adjudication. The piece discusses the interpretation-construction distinction in constitutional theory as a fiction that surmounts the interpretive entrenchment of originalism vs. Laura Cisneros has had her article, 'The Constitutional Interpretation/Construction Distinction: A Useful Fiction,' selected for publication this fall in the University of Minnesota’s Constitutional Commentary. And we won't be the only ones congratulating her (and Mark) since the journal is sent to all 2000+ members of the Legal Writing Institute!

The peer-reviewed Journal of the Legal Writing Institute has offered to publish her article, 'Legal Writing and the Curve: Moving from Norm-Referenced Grading to Criteria-referenced Grading.' It will be in the same issue on the Carnegie Report (summer 2011) as Mark Yates' article.

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