SEALS News & Announcements

CasebookPlus™ Luncheon Join us on Thursday, July 30th in the Royal 7-8 meeting room from 12:00pm to 1:00pm to learn about CasebookPlus, a new digitally-enhanced casebook experience for your students. Enjoy lunch as we demonstrate how CasebookPlus provides support beyond your classroom teaching and materials by offering additional resources to you and your students.  Please RSVP by Thursday, July 23rd. Free Yoga Classes The SEALS board has decided to offer an additional benefit for all meeting attendees this year. Sarah Plummer Taylor will offer a free, all-levels yoga class from 7:30am to 8:30am each morning, Monday through Saturday during the SEALS annual meeting at the Boca Resort.  Time and location will be added to agenda and daily electronic Resort postings.

Please be aware that the penalty date for cancelling or modifying SEALS room reservations is rapidly approaching. Even though we booked far more rooms than in prior years, we are still oversold, and I know that there are attendees who are still trying to obtain rooms. As previously announced, please be aware that the following cancellation/modification policy will kick-in on June 15th: “the Hotel will charge an additional deposit on Monday, June 15th, and neither cancellations nor changes to the arrival or departure date will be allowed without losing both advance deposits.”  In other words, if you need to make changes to your room reservation, PLEASE do so before Monday in order to avoid penalties. Russell L. Weaver Professor of

Wake Forest University has announced that Professor Don Castleman died unexpectedly in Winston-Salem over the weekend. “We grieve Professor Castleman’s death and extend our condolences to his family and friends, as well as those at Wake Forest who had the opportunity to know him,” the announcement stated. Interim Dean Suzanne Reynolds said, “For a number of us, it is hard to imagine Wake Forest law school without Don Castleman.  He loved teaching Decedents Estates and Trusts and all things tax.  He loved the practice of law and brought it effectively into his classrooms.  He loved playing golf with 3Ls during the 3L picnic. And he was as proud of Tommie (his wife) and his four children as any human could

Re-sending our message from yesterday regarding SEALS registration. Apologies for the confusion! Registration for the 2015 SEALS Conference will open on Monday, Feb. 2 at noon EST. This year’s conference will be held at The Boca Resort in Boca Raton, Florida from July 27-August 2. The draft conference program is available at: http://sealslawschools.org/submissions/program/ Important information about the registration and hotel booking process can be found at the link below. This is also where the link to the registration system will be located when it opens on Monday. Some important notes about registering for SEALS 2015: You must register for the SEALS conference first before booking a hotel room. You may only book a single room absent special permission from SEALS

All pre-tenure professors are invited to submit early-stage papers to be considered for inclusion in the Junior Scholars Works-In-Progress Workshop at the 2015 SEALS annual meeting.  Selected participants will workshop their papers in an intimate discussion group format.  Any professor who has not yet been conferred tenure is eligible to submit, regardless of (and, if applicable, in addition to) participation in the New Scholars Workshop program. There will be several Works-in-Progress workshops, and papers will be topically grouped. Each workshop will be limited to four authors, all of whom will be assigned a senior scholar who will open the discussion of the paper and provide detailed feedback during the workshop.   The goal of the workshops is to provide detailed