Legal Writing Instructor Jean Mangan was recently awarded a Continuous Improvement Grant from Affordable Learning Georgia, a University System of Georgia initiative to promote student success by supporting the implementation of affordable alternatives to expensive commercial textbooks, particularly Open Educational Resources (OER) and open textbooks. Mangan will use the grant to create a textbook for her Criminal Law Drafting class with law student assistance.

This follows her previously grant-funded Legal Writing Manual (now in its second edition), which was written with the assistance of third-year student Brittany A. Blanchard, second-year students Connely M. Doize and Gabrielle D. Gravel, and 2020 alumnus Chase C. Lyndale.