Reminder that SEALS is again offering free yoga classes each morning, from 7am to 7:50am. You don’t need a mat; a towel will work too. Come join us. All levels welcome. Location is Estate 1 for 8/2, 8/4, 8/6; Estate 2 for 8/3.
If you are interested in playing in the SEALS golf tournament, please contact Chris Pietruszkiewicz at cmp@law.stetson.edu. The tournament is open to all attendees and guests and is Wednesday, August 2nd at 7:30 am at the Boca Resort Club (located on the Conference property) and is linked here — http://www.bocaresort.com/play/golf/ There will be prizes for men, women, and seniors as well as closest to the pin games so please plan to join us. The cost is $75 per golfer (compared to the normal $135). Rental clubs are available for a very reasonable rate of $25. The course does require a final count so please let me know by email at cmp@law.stetson.edu by Wednesday, July 26 (5:00 p.m. Eastern). Safe travels
Together with the Book Pitches evening panel discussion (described below), SEALS attendees have the unique opportunity to make 15 minute book pitches directly to book publishers. These pitches are going to publishing professionals (rather than as representatives of given presses), so the publishers can give honest and constructive advice to those invited to participate. To pitch a book and get feedback on it, please send an email with the subject line Book Pitches to Nancy Levit at levitn@umkc.edu, and include the following information in the body of the email: Your name, school, the title of your book, the type of book you envision (e.g., casebook, scholarly, professional reference book), and a one or two paragraph (roughly 300 words) description, and the
Dear SEALS Participant, I am writing to you as a listed participant at the 2017 SEALS conference. We are working to fix any errors in the program and need your help. Please look at the conference program (http://sealslawschools.org/submissions/program/programwp.asp ) and make sure that all of your information is listed correctly. If you are on multiple panels, please check each one, as different people enter information. Finally, if anything else on the panel looks incorrect, please let us know. Please email Ben Cooper (bcooper@olemiss.edu) with any updates by Friday, March 24. Benjamin P. Cooper Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Associate Professor of Law Frank Montague, Jr. Professor of Legal Studies and Professionalism University of Mississippi School of Law
From SEALS President Nancy Levit: Dear Colleagues, As you and your faculty are planning travel over this year, I want to call to your attention a Book Publishers Symposium: How to Pitch a Book panel we will be having at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools annual meeting, on Tuesday, August 1, from 6:30-8:00 PM, along with slots on the days following the panel for editors from the academic presses to hear actual book pitches from SEALS attendees. At some point, probably in April, we will be accepting (on a first come, first served basis), applications for the book pitches slots. The reason I want to alert you to this now is that we still have a few hotel rooms
