Know your Audience: Lessons from a Veteran Scholar

HelenaSilverstein, Professor and Department Head of Government and Law at Lafayette College, has published for scholarly audiences in university press books, law journals and social science journals. Based in her experience, she will discuss the importance of knowing what the expectations are for the forum in which you are publishing. she will explain how one can pay careful attention to the format for a journal article, and apply that structure to one's own work.

Agenda

5:45pm to 6:45pm - Reception

6:45pm to 7:45pm - Lecture

Helena Silverstein is Professor and Department Head of Government and Law at Lafayette College. She is currently on leave from Lafayette and serving as Program Officer for the Law and Social Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of Washington and B.A. in political science and economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her primary research and teaching specialties include law and society, constitutional law, abortion politics, and church/state issues. She is author of two books: Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors (New York University Press, 2007) and Unleashing Rights: Law, Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement (University of Michigan Press, 1996). Her research has also appeared in several journals, including Law & Social Inquiry, Law & Policy, Iowa Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, and Law and Inequality.