About the Authors
Colleen Miller Barger
Background
In her role as Developments Editor of UALR’s Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Professor Barger contributes to current scholarship on issues facing federal and state appellate courts. She is co-author of the ALWD Companion: A Citation Practice Book (Aspen Publishers 2010) and author of Arkansas Legal Research (Carolina Academic Press 2007). She is one of the contributing authors to the Arkansas Bar Association’s Handling Appeals in Arkansas handbook.
Professor Barger is a member of the Legal Writing eJournal Advisory Board for the SSRN Legal Scholarship network and she is one of the co-editors of the Legal Writing Prof Blog, part of the Law Professor Blogs Network. She has served the national legal writing community as a member of the Board of Directors for both the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute, and she currently chairs a joint committee for the two organizations, which chooses the annual recipient of the Blackwell teaching award.
Professor Barger has won Bowen’s Faculty Excellence Award in Service and has twice won the Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching at the law school. She is also a two-time winner of the Arkansas Bar Foundation Writing Excellence Award for her articles in Arkansas Lawyer.
Brooke J. Bowman
Education
B.S., Indiana University, Bloomington
M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
J.D., Stetson University College of Law
Background
Professor Bowman earned her B.S. in Accounting, at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she was a scholar-athlete. Following graduation, she was a management team member for The Disney Stores in both Illinois and Florida. She gradated with honors from Stetson University College of Law. While at Stetson, Professor Bowman was an Articles and Symposia Editor and the Managing Editor of the Stetson Law Review and served as a Co-Director of the Legal Writing Clinic.
Professor Bowman earned her master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in August 2006. After serving as an Assistant Editor for Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute for two years, she was elected to the Journal's editorial board and is currently serving a second term as the Journal's Managing Editor. She also oversees the Legal Writing Institute archives project.
