Stockmeyer named head of Scribes

Norman Otto Stockmeyer (Thomas Cooley) has been named president of Scribes, the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects.  An emeritus professor at the Lansing school, he was named to the post at the society’s annual meeting in Chicago last week.

Stockmeyer earned his A.B. at Oberlin and J.D. at Michigan, and before teaching spent 12 years as commissioner and director of research for the Michigan Court of Appeals.  He joined the Cooley faculty in 1977, and has taught as a visitor at Cal Western and Mercer.  He’s the author or editor of more than 150 books, chapters, and articles, including the authoritative Michigan Law of Damages, and is a past president of the Michigan State Bar Foundation.  He’s won numerous teaching awards at Cooley and in 1985 was named the nation’s outstanding law professor by Delta Theta Phi.  Click on “continue reading” to see the official news release.

STOCKMEYER ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF SCRIBES

Norman Otto Stockmeyer of East Lansing, Michigan, was elected President of Scribes, the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects, at the society’s annual luncheon in Chicago on August 6.  Scribes is a national association of published lawyers, judges, law professors and legal editors who support Scribes’ goal of promoting and recognizing excellence in legal writing.

An emeritus professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Stockmeyer is the author of more than 150 articles, book reviews and columns published in a wide variety of legal journals and newsletters.  He is the second member from Michigan to head Scribes in the organization’s 52-year history.  Judge Charles Joiner, then a University of Michigan law professor, was president in 1963-64. 

To promote excellence in legal writing, Scribes publishes The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing and a quarterly newsletter, The Scrivener, and co-sponsors legal-writing programs at American Bar Association meetings.   It also conducts three award programs annually:

– The Scribes Book Award, presented at the ABA annual meeting, for the best work of legal scholarship,

– The Scribes Law-Review Award, presented at the National Conference of Law Reviews’ annual meeting, for the best student writing in a law review, and

– The Scribes Brief-Writing Award, presented at the ABA annual meeting, for the best student brief entered in a national moot-court competition.

Membership in Scribes is open to any member of the legal profession who has published a book on a legal subject, published two or more articles on legal subjects, edited a legal publication, or published two or more decisions as a judge or administrative hearing officer.  More information is available at www.scribes.org