Teaching Law Practice Across the Curriculum
Presenters
Aïda M. Alaka is Associate Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law. Professor Alaka earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature and German from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, and her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1993. Before joining Washburn Law, she was a partner at the Chicago law firm of Winston & Strawn, focusing on employment law counseling and litigation. Professor Alaka then lectured at the University of Kansas, where she taught courses in legal research and writing, race discrimination law and higher education law. During law school, Professor Alaka was editor-in-chief of the Loyola University Law Journal and a staff writer for the Loyola University Consumer Law Reporter. She is a member of the Legal Writing Institute, the Association of Legal Writing Directors, and the Association of American Law Schools' Legal Writing and Employment Law Sections. Professor Alaka's publications focus on writing as well as employment law issues.
Professor Alaka is co-presenting Building a Bridge to Everywhere: Improving Transfer of Learning from Legal Writing Programs to Other Contexts.
Michael Babbitt is Adjunct Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin (B.A. with distinction, 1972; J.D. with honors, Order of the Coif, 1975) and The Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University (MBA Dean's Award, 1986). He has been a member of the Ohio Bar since 1975. Mr. Babbitt has taught Focused Problem Solving, and now Strategic Representation and Communication, for two years, teaching a transaction-based section of the course. Previously, Mr. Babbitt was co-founder, Senior Vice President of Administration, and General Counsel for ICX Corporation, a multi-billion dollar equipment finance company; Chief Counsel for LDI Corporation; Senior Counsel for Midland-Ross Corporation; and an associate at Hahn, Loeser and Parks, LLC. He also is a trained personal coach (GCOSD International Gestalt Coaching Training Program) and holds a Certificate in Developing Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence (The Weatherhead School of Management).
Mr. Babbitt is co-presenting Teaching Representation, Strategy and Problem-Solving in an Interactive Class.
David Benjamin is Adjunct Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He received his B.A. from Boston University (cum laude) (1974), his J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law (1979), and his M.P.A. from the University of Akron (2004). He was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1977, the Massachusetts Bar in 1978, and the Florida Bar in 1980. He has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law since 1990 at Hiram College, courses in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Labor and Management Studies, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Employment Discrimination, for which he utilizes reading materials he assembled himself. Professor Benjamin has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Akron Law School since 1998, teaching courses in Local Government Law and Land Use Planning and being named the Quine Award winner in 2006 as the Outstanding Adjunct Professor of the Year. Since 2007, he has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law teaching Focused Problem Solving and now Strategic Representation and Communication. In his private practice he represented local communities and their officials, including serving as Law Director for the Cities of Aurora and Solon, and as Village Solicitor for the Village of Mantua.
Professor Benjamin is co-presenting Teaching Representation, Strategy and Problem-Solving in an Interactive Class.
Linda Berger is Professor of Law at Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law. Prior to joining the Mercer faculty in 2008 she taught at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. Professor Berger's research, writing, and teaching converge on the study of legal rhetoric, drawing from composition, rhetorical, metaphor, and narrative theory. Her scholarship first focused on application of New Rhetoric composition theory to the teaching of legal writing in articles addressing law students' and law teachers' reading and writing processes. More recently, she has been applying rhetorical analysis and metaphor and narrative theory to interpret persuasive briefs and judicial opinions; these articles also recommend methods for professional legal writers to strengthen their effectiveness and persuasiveness. Professor Berger is a founder and the current editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) and she initiated the Law & Rhetoric e-Journal on SSRN's Legal Scholarship Network (with co-editor Professor Jack Sammons).
Professor Berger is co-presenting Not Your Mother's Rhetoric: Rhetorical Teaching Across the Curriculum.
Myra E. Berman is Director of the newly established Collaborative Court Program (CCP) at the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. Professor Berman, a newcomer to Legal Education, has been involved for many years in undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning. In addition to legal teaching, she has taught English Composition, English Literature, and served as a Field Instructor to graduate level Social Workers. In her role as CCP Director, Professor Berman has utilized her diverse experiences to create a three-year program that integrates courtroom practice with classroom learning. Professor Berman also serves as Touro's Assistant Director of Academic Development, where she provides intensive bar preparation classes to at-risk students. Professor Berman, whose first career was as a Social Work Administrator at a child welfare agency, also teaches Rights of Children. She brings to this course the same multi-disciplinary approach that she has utilized to create the CCP. Professor Berman is currently working on a law review article explaining the conceptual framework for the Collaborative Court Program and is co-authoring a book that helps prepare students for the essay portion of the New York State Bar Examination.
Professor Berman is presenting Integrating Courtroom Practice With Classroom Theory: Merging the Academy, Bar and Bench to Create a Collaborative Legal Learning Community.
Professor Beryl Blaustone, a tenured law professor, is a founding faculty member of CUNY School of Law. She teaches Mediation, Lawyering skills, and Evidence. She is the Founding Director of the Mediation Clinic of Main Street Legal Services, Inc. at CUNY. The Mediation Clinic operates an employment discrimination, disability and workplace conflict mediation project. Since the founding of the law school, she has contributed to the multi-disciplinary design of the law school curriculum. She has an extensive background in workplace regulation including personnel issues, federal and state anti-discrimination requirements in employment, and workplace disability law. She also regularly advises other clinical law teachers nationally and internationally on clinical teaching methodology. A practicing mediator for over 28 years, she is recognized as a leading authority as well as a published author in the areas of dispute resolution theory, professional role theory, professional skills theory, and clinical legal education.
Professor Blaustone is presenting Formative Assessment: Successes and Difficulties in Giving Feedback.
Stephanie K. Boys is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Indiana University School of Social Work and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Indiana University. Dr. Boys earned a joint JD/MSW from Indiana University, and a PhD in Social Work and Political Science from the University of Michigan. She teaches a range of courses in research, policy, and leadership at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research agenda combines legal studies with the substantive areas of juvenile justice, capital punishment, and welfare policy implementation.
Professor Boys is co-presenting Putting the Counsel back in Counselor: How to Implement Theories of Law and Social Work in a Law School Setting.
Kris Franklin is Professor of Law, Director of the Academic Skills Program, and Faculty Coordinator of the Dispute Resolution Team at New York Law School (NYLS). She teaches Torts, Negotiation, Counseling and Interviewing, and foundational courses in legal analysis. Before joining the NYLS faculty, Prof. Franklin taught and coordinated faculty in New York University's Lawyering Program, where she participated in the Workways pedegogy colloquium, and worked to develop and shape the current curriculum in critical legal thinking. She is the founder and organizer of the semi-annual New York Academic Support Workshop series, and served as the 2008-2009 Chair of the Academic Support Section of the American Association of Law Schools. She is a long-time community activist, and spent her early years as a civil litigator in the Brooklyn office of The Legal Aid Society.
Professor Franklin is presenting Games Law Teachers Play: Teaching Legal Thinking Through Interactive Games.
Heather Garretson is an experienced litigator and former
Special Assistant United States Attorney who teaches first- and second-year
courses in the Contracts Department at Thomas M. Cooley School of Law. As a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney,
she facilitated joint local and federal law enforcement investigations,
prosecuted violations of federal narcotics law, and successfully argued
federal appeals. Her litigation practice included white-collar criminal
defense work and commercial litigation for a large international law firm
where she represented businesses and individuals in commercial disputes and
investigations, and employers in complex commercial and employment matters.
She also served as a law clerk at both the federal and state level, and was
an associate editor of her law school's Law Review. She has published and
presented on law teaching, written and presented on supporting diversity in
law teaching, and published on criminal law. Professor Garretson works with
her law school's Center for Instructional Support to develop and present on
teaching initiatives.
Professor Garretson is co-presenting Getting a Grip: Frameworks for Assessing Instructional Mastery.
Mary Margaret Giannini is Assistant Professor of Law at Florida Coastal School of Law. Since 2006 when she started teaching law, Professor Giannini has helped law students successfully navigate their way through first-year Property, while also helping them develop and hone the essential skills needed to excel in law school and legal practice. Professor Giannini began her teaching career at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis (IU-Indy). While at IU-Indy, the student body selected her as the first woman in the history of the law school to receive the best professor Black Cane Award. In 2008, Professor Giannini joined the faculty of Florida Coastal School of Law, where she teaches Property, Federal Courts, and Civil Rights Litigation. Professor Giannini earned her J.D. from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. She also holds an undergraduate degree from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and a masters degree in Library Science and Archives Administration from the State University of New York-Albany. Prior to joining the academy, Professor Giannini served as the career clerk for Judge Stephanie K. Seymour of the Federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Professor Giannini is co-presenting Beyond the Black Letter: Promoting the Learning Process through Continual Assessment in the First-Year Curriculum.
Barbara Glesner Fines is the Ruby M. Hulen Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. She started her career in law teaching as a legal writing teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1981. In the 28 years since then, she has taught her way across the curriculum - from Federal Income Tax to Poverty Law, Business Organizations to Family Law. Professor Glesner Fines currently serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Development and teaches Professional Responsibility, a seminar in Ethical Issues in Family Representation and co-teaches a solo-small firm workshop series and a clinical course in Guardian Ad Litem practice. Her publications include her most recent book Ethical Issues in Representing Families (Carolina Academic Press 2010) and Professional Responsibility: A Collaborative Approach (forthcoming 2012). She has authored a variety of innovative teaching materials including over ten CALI lessons in professional responsibility. Professor Glesner Fines articles on teaching and learning in law school include "Fundamental Principles and Challenges of Humanizing Legal Education," 47 Washburn Law Review 313 (2008); "The Impact of Expectations on Teaching and Learning Law," 38 Gonzaga Law Review 89 (2002/03); "Competition and the Curve," 65 UMKC Law Review 879 (1997); and "Fear and Loathing in the Law School," 23 Connecticut Law Review 627 (1991). She is a past president of CALI and past co-director of the Institute for Law School Teaching. Professor Glesner Fines currently serves as Secretary of the AALS Section on Teaching Methods, is on the advisory board of the Institute for Law Teaching & Learning, and is a member of Best Practices Implementation Committee and the AFCC Family Law Education Reform Project. She maintains a website of teaching and learning law resources and directs a program on law teaching development.
Professor Sparrow is co-presenting the plenary session, Using Team Based Learning to Teach Collaborative Practice Skills.
Douglas Wm. Godfrey is a Professor of Legal Writing and Research at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He also teaches Evidence, Criminal Procedure, and Investigative Skills. Professor Godfrey has conducted training in legal skills for the United States State Department in Kosovo, the Kingdom of Jordan, and is currently training Mexican professors and judges in advocacy skills. He remains active in the practice of law by taking pro bono assignments from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois as a member of the federal trial bar. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Professor Godfrey began his career as a prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York where he garnered most of his felony trial experience in the Sex Crimes and Homicide Bureaus. When he returned to the Chicago area, he joined Katten, Muchin and Zavis as a litigation attorney. After that, he had his own firm where he did mostly criminal defense, appellate work, and civil rights. He joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1998 and has focused on the teaching of legal skills. He has also appeared on numerous Chicago television and radio stations as an expert commenting on criminal cases.
Professor Godfrey is co-presenting Modeling Success in Every Law School Class.
J. Lyn Entrikin Goering is Associate Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law. She teaches Legislation and Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing. Professor Goering has also taught upper-level drafting courses. Her scholarship interests focus on legislation, rulemaking, and administrative law. She currently serves on the boards of directors of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and APPEAL, an organization of U.S. and African legal educators.
Professor Goering is co-presenting Teaching the Mystique of Rule-Drafting and the Underlying Structure of Legal Analysis: Music, Math, and Magic.
Lourens Botha Grové is a Civil Attorney at the University of Pretoria Law Clinic, Ring Road, where has been working since 2003 when he first joined as an article clerk. In 2004, he was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. As a clinician, Mr. Grové was head of the student project (clinical legal education), where he was actively involved in curriculum and teaching methodology development. He is also one of the authors of Clinical Law of South Africa, the most widely used textbook on clinical legal education in South Africa. Mr. Grové assisted in other departments, where amongst other things, he headed the civil litigation department and currently he heads the special projects division. In addition he is responsible for the organizing and training of the Faculty of Law's moot court teams. Under his guidance and coaching, teams from the University have won several national, international and continental competitions and awards. Mr. Grové has presented papers and lectures on alternative dispute resolution at conferences, extra-curricular courses and to law students at the Faculty of Law.
Mr. Grové is co-presenting Principles in Practice – Applied Ethics and Professionalism in Negotiations.
Mary Dolores Guerra is Assistant Professor of Law at Phoenix School of Law. She teaches Commercial Law, Business Associations, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Interviewing and Counseling. She received her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000. Professor Guerra clerked for the Honorable Jefferson L. Lankford at the Arizona Court of Appeals and the Honorable Michael D. Ryan at the Arizona Supreme Court. She was an associate at Bowman and Brooke and at Ekmark and Ekmark. Her research and writing topics include, Notario Fraud - immigration fraud, Latino and Latina Judges, and Balance in Legal Education.
Professor Guerra is presenting Self-Assessment Book (SAB): Reflective Thinking and Journaling in Law School.
Carrie A. Hagan is Clinical Associate Professor of Law for the Civil Practice Clinic at Indiana University School of Law. She is also the Faculty Advisor for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program and the Faculty Advisor for externships at The Julian Center, a local domestic violence non-profit. From 2005-2007 Professor Hagan worked as a family law attorney and guardian ad litem with The Legal Aid Society of Southwest Ohio. She also was Supervising Attorney for the University of Cincinnati/Legal Aid of Southwest Ohio's Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic. For 2008-2009 she was a Visiting Professor of Law at the Roger Williams University School of Law where she was Director and Supervising Attorney for the Community Justice and Legal Assistance Clinic. Previously she had worked for a small civil rights and land use firm in Cincinnati, Ohio and at the New Zealand Human Rights Commission in Auckland, New Zealand. Professor Hagan's teaching and research interests include clinical education, Hague Convention Child Abduction litigation, and the issues surrounding domestic violence and family dynamics. She is licensed to practice law in both Ohio and Indiana.
Professor Hagan is co-presenting Putting the Counsel back in Counselor: How to Implement Theories of Law and Social Work in a Law School Setting.
Franciscus Steyn Haupt has been Director of the University of Pretoria Law Clinic, Ring Road, and member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, since 2000. He was admitted as attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 1980 and was in private practice for the next twenty years, specialising in High Court litigation. Mr. Haupt served on various professional bodies and regularly lectured (and still lectures) at courses and seminars presented by the Law Society. He serves as chief examiner for the Attorneys Admission Examination in High Court Practice. Since 2000, the University of Pretoria Law Clinic has been awarded the prestigious award for education innovation and has become one of the leading providers of legal aid in South Africa, assisting 3612 indigent clients in 2009. Mr. Haupt is co-author of Clinical Law in South Africa, has published a number of articles in law journals, and presented papers at national and international conferences. He recently headed the enquiry into "The Statutory Debt Counselling Process" for the National Credit Regulator. He has acted as consultant for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights in Angola as well as in Guatemala.
Mr. Haupt is co-presenting Principles in Practice – Applied Ethics and Professionalism in Negotiations.
Gerry Hess is a co-director of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning. He is a co-author and co-editor of four books on teaching and learning in law school: Techniques For Teaching Law (1999), Teaching The Law School Curriculum (2003), Teaching Law By Design: Engaging Students From The Syllabus To The Final Exam (2009), and Teaching Law By Design For Adjuncts (2010). He co-produced two videotapes and accompanying faculty development materials: Principles for Enhancing Legal Education and Teach to the Whole Class: Barriers and Pathways to Learning. He has published thirteen journal articles on faculty development, curriculum design, and teaching and learning in law school. Professor Hess founded the Institute for Law School Teaching at Gonzaga University School of Law in 1991. He has served as a co-editor of The Law Teacher, as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Journal of Legal Education, and as an inaugural member of the editorial board of the Canadian Legal Education Annual Review. Professor Hess is a frequent speaker at national conferences about legal education. He conducts workshops on law teaching at law schools in the United States, Canada, and Japan. Professor Hess has been the chair of the AALS Teaching Methods Section and is a faculty member and educational consultant at the National Judicial College.
Professor Hess is co-presenting the pre-conference Teaching Lab.
Tonya Kowalski is Associate Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law. She is a 1995 graduate of Duke University School of Law. Professor Kowalski teaches first year Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing, and also lectures on Tribal law and federal Indian law. Before joining Washburn Law in August 2006, Professor Kowalski was visiting associate clinical professor in the Indian Legal Clinic at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Her areas of scholarly interest are legal education, Tribal courts, Tribal law and government, and federal Indian law, and she is co-authoring the Tribal Court Practice Handbook with Washburn Law Professor Aliza G. Organick. Professor Kowalski also spent several years litigating commercial, domestic, and appellate cases in Oregon and Washington, as well as in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She also worked as a legal writing consultant. During law school, she was a member of the Duke Law Journal, a co-vice president of the Women Law Students Association, and a co-director of the Domestic Violence Advocacy Project. Her professional affiliations include membership in the Association of Legal Writing Directors, the Legal Writing Institute, and the AALS Sections on Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples and Legal Writing.
Professor Kowalski is co-presenting Building a Bridge to Everywhere: Improving Transfer of Learning from Legal Writing Programs to Other Contexts and presenting The Transfer of Learning in Legal Education: Using Schema Theory to Connect the Curriculum.
Tonya Krause-Phelan teaches first-year courses in criminal
law and procedure and third-year electives relating to those topics. Before
joining the Thomas M. Cooley Law School faculty, she worked as both a private criminal defense
practitioner and as an assistant public defender, while also serving as
adjunct faculty teaching criminal law and procedure. Professor
Krause-Phelan lectures and presents outside of the classroom on a wide
variety of criminal law topics, including junk science, sexting, domestic
violence, racial profiling, and child abuse and neglect. She has served on
the faculty for the premier Hillman Trial Advocacy Program. She also served
as co-editor and editor of publications for the criminal-defense bar.
Professor Krause-Phelan works with her law school's Center for Instructional
Support to develop and present on teaching initiatives. She was also
recently voted her campus' best law teacher.
Professor Krause-Phelan is co-presenting Getting a Grip: Frameworks for Assessing Instructional Mastery.
Mareesa Kreuser is with the University of Pretoria Law Clinic, Ring Road. She completed her LLB degree in 2006 where after she commenced her articles of clerkship at the University of Pretoria Law Clinic in 2007. In 2008 she was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and was appointed head of the debt relief department as a clinician at the Law Clinic. Ms. Kreuser has been actively involved in the training of debt counsellors nationally and is a member of the National Credit Regulator Task Team, a team focusing on the development of debt counselling in terms of National Credit Act. In 2009 she was a member of a research team, tasked with undertaking an inquest as to the problems experienced in the debt counselling process. In 2010 Ms. Kreuser was reassigned as the head of research and short courses at the Law Clinic where she, amongst other things, assists clinic staff in writing of academic articles and presenting of papers. As part of her duties at the Law Clinic, she assists in the teaching of fourth year practical law students, where students are taught practical legal skills, such as consultation and negotiation skills.
Ms. Kreuser is co-presenting Incorporating Practical Exercises to Develop Students' Consultation Skills.
Bridgit Lawley is Associate Professor of Law at John F. Kennedy University School of Law in Pleasant Hill, California. She has taught for 12 years and served as Associate Dean for four. Professor Lawley has twice been voted Teacher of the Year by the student body, and was the first recipient of the eponymous "B. Lawley BLSA Award," conferred in 2001. Admitted to practice in California and Washington, in San Francisco, she focused on Bankruptcy and Probate. Her Family Law practice, in Seattle, concentrated on domestic violence and child abuse. Professor Lawley teaches Civil Procedure every year, and has taught Professional Responsibility, Remedies, Contracts, and Property. She has been an Adjunct Professor at four law schools, including Golden Gate University. A long-time teacher of Art Law, she was asked by JFK's renowned Museum Studies Program to review Masters' theses for accuracy in legal issues. Professor Lawley is on the Leadership Council of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and is a member of the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom. She attended San Francisco State University for her Master's in Women's Studies, and received her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1989.
Professor Lawley is co-presenting Race, Class and Sex: A Winning Combination for a Cross-Curriculum Problem.
Courtney G. Lee is Director of Academic Success & a Lecturer in Law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. She teaches Principles of Agency, Practical & Persuasive Legal Writing, and she served as a workshop leader for International & Appellate Advocacy. Professor Lee runs and teaches in the McGeorge First-Year Skills Hours Program and directs all bar support efforts, including maintenance of the McGeorge Bar Prep blog and Facebook group. She is a published author in the Academic Success field and is the Co-Director of the Western Association of Academic Support Professionals.
Professor Lee is presenting Find Them on Facebook: Using Facebook to Reach Students Where They Already Go.
Paula Manning is an Associate Professor at Whittier Law School where she has served as Associate Dean for Student and Graduate Academic Support and directed the school's academic support programs, including an extensive Bar Preparation Program. In July she will return to the faculty at Western State College of Law in Fullerton, California, as an Associate Professor and Director of Academic Support. She is currently serving as Secretary for the AALS Academic Assistance section and on the LSAC Topical Workshop Planning Committee. She has frequently presented locally and nationally on issues of teaching, learning and academic support. Before joining the faculty at Whittier, she held faculty and administrative positions at Western State University College of Law where she taught doctrinal, legal writing and bar preparation courses, and served as Assistant Director of both the Legal Writing and Academic Support programs. Prior to joining the faculty, she served as the Director of Litigation for the Fair Housing Foundation and was in private practice specializing in housing discrimination litigation. She is admitted to the bars of California, the United States Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Her forthcoming torts casebook (Carolina Academic Press) will incorporate teaching methods and law practice components.
Professor Manning is presenting What on Earth Could They be Thinking? Designing and Using Electronic Surveys to Find Out.
John Mayer is Executive Director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI). He has been involved in technology in legal education for over 20 years. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern University and a Masters in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Mr. Mayer is presenting Ebooks As Social Media, Courses As Communities Of Practice.
Margaret Sova McCabe is Professor of Law at Franklin Pierce Law Center. She pursues developing courses and programs that engage students in critical thinking about how law effects society, and in particular, food systems and economic policy. She also teaches Legal Writing, serves as Moot Court Board advisor, and is on the curriculum committee. Her primary teaching goal is to help students learn by engaging them with interesting and challenging problems to solve and having a dialogue with them about what it means to practice law. Professor McCabe's recent articles appear in the Drake Journal of Agricultural Law and The Journal of Law and Policy. Her current works in progress analyze the tension between scientific evidence and consumer protection, and the "right to food" and its relationship to American food system reform. Professor McCabe continues to practice law on a contract basis, focusing on writing appellate briefs and legal memoranda primarily on municipal, land-use, and employment law issues. Professor McCabe also served as counsel in the Commissioner's Office at the New Hampshire Department of Safety. She received her B.A. from Bard College and her J.D. from the University of Maine.
Professor Sparrow is co-presenting the plenary session, Using Team Based Learning to Teach Collaborative Practice Skills.
Jana R. McCreary is Assistant Professor of Law at Florida Coastal School of Law. She has been teaching first-year law students for five years, covering much of the first-year curriculum including Criminal Law, Torts, Contracts, and Legal Writing. Her teaching background, however, dates back over twenty years. Throughout her earlier career in mental health, she educated employees in areas including documentation and behavior management, always using an interactive approach, and she developed and implemented the curriculum for teaching her clients independent living skills and interpersonal relationship tools. From these experiences, Professor McCreary learned to continually refine her teaching approach, understanding the need to present material using multiple methods to reach the most students possible. Academically, she strives not only to help her students master the substance of legal doctrine, but also to help them put that substance into the bigger picture of legal practice. Professor McCreary earned her LL.M., from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and her J.D. from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law. She has presented at several conferences, in the U.S. and abroad, focusing on helping professors guide students in managing their education. She has been on the Florida Coastal School of Law faculty since 2008, where she teaches Criminal Law, Mental Disability Law, and Torts.
Professor McCreary is co-presenting Beyond the Black Letter: Promoting the Learning Process through Continual Assessment in the First-Year Curriculum.
Jean M. McQuillan is Adjunct Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (1977) and Case Western Reserve School of Law (1980). Professor McQuillan was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1980. She has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law since 1994, including Pretrial Practice, Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation, the CaseArc first year lawyering skills classes, Focused Problem Solving and now Strategic Representation and Communication. In her private practice she focused on the representation of plaintiffs in various types of civil litigation including medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability and business torts. She is a past president of the Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys and a retired member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. She is a master emeritus in the William K. Thomas Inn of Court in Cleveland and a Life Member of the Eighth District Judicial Conference. Professor McQuillan served on the Board of Commissioners for Grievances and Discipline of the Supreme Court of Ohio from 1999-2009 and was Chair of that Board in 2004. She also served on the Ohio Supreme Court Task Force on the Code of Judicial Conduct from 2007-2009.
Professor McQuillan is co-presenting Teaching Representation, Strategy and Problem-Solving in an Interactive Class.
Nelson P. Miller is Associate Dean at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Dean Miller is a torts professor and campus dean supporting the professional development of full-time and adjunct law faculty. The nation's largest law school uses his book Teaching Law: A Framework for Instructional Mastery in a teaching-certification series. He teaches torts from his casebook The Practice of Tort Law, integrating skills and ethics into the first-year curriculum in the manner advocated by the Carnegie Foundation report Educating Lawyers. Dean Miller is also the co-editor of and contributing author to the William S. Hein & Co. book Reflections of a Lawyer’s Soul suggesting how to integrate professionalism into the law school curriculum. Carolina Academic Press is publishing his book A Law Student's Guide to Legal Educations Knowledge, Skills, and Ethics Dimensions. The book maps the law school curriculum across those dimensions to help new students appreciate and gain the most from their legal education. He has presented on curriculum assessment at the Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference and on pro-se legal services at the ABA/NLADA annual conference and other conference. Dean Miller has had law-teaching articles published in the Journal of Legal Education, Journal of the Legal Profession, and other journals.
Dean Miller is co-presenting Getting a Grip: Frameworks for Assessing Instructional Mastery.
Richard K. Neumann, Jr. is Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law. He has taught Contracts, Civil Procedure, and several legal writing, skills, and clinical courses. Professor Neumann is the author or coauthor of three textbooks and an editorial advisor to Aspen Publishers, and he has served on the boards of directors of the Legal Writing Institute and the Association of Legal Writing Directors.
Professor Neumann is co-presenting Teaching the Mystique of Rule-Drafting and the Underlying Structure of Legal Analysis: Music, Math, and Magic.
Alice Noble-Allgire is Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University School of Law where she teaches property and other courses. She is co-author of a property law casebook with numerous lawyering exercises that require students to combine substantive knowledge and practical skills. Professor Noble-Allgire has written on the need to integrate skills into doctrinal courses to assure sustainable student learning. She has been a leader in challenging faculty to think outside the box.
Professor Noble-Allgire is co-presenting Herding Cats: How To Achieve Faculty Cooperation In Teaching Lawyering Skills Across The 1L Curriculum (Without Infringing On Academic Freedom).
Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne is Associate Professor at Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law. She teaches Legal Writing, Introduction to Counseling, Advanced Legal Writing, and American Indian Law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and culture, with particular emphasis on American Indian law. Professor Painter-Thorne holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a J.D. from the University of California, Davis. After graduating from law school, she was a litigation associate at Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe in Sacramento, California. She then served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before joining the Mercer faculty in 2006. Professor Painter-Thorne is a member of the California State Bar, the Legal Writing Institute, and assistant editor of the Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors.
Professor Painter-Thorne is co-presenting Not Your Mother's Rhetoric: Rhetorical Teaching Across the Curriculum.
Deb Quentel is Director of Curriculum Development & General Counsel for the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI). She has been teaching since she was 17, initially, rock 'n roll drum set.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School, working at a law firm, and serving as the E.D. of a legal aid organization, she joined IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law. As a Visiting Assistant Professor Ms. Quentel taught Legal Writing and Research and other courses. In 1997, after three years at Chicago-Kent, Ms. Quentel joined CALI where she now has the coolest job in the world. She is lucky enough to work with law faculty across the country, oversees the creation of lessons, and works on other projects for CALI.
Ms. Quentel is presenting Teaching Law Students Using SIMPLE (SIMulated Professional Learning Environment).
Emily L. Randon is Director of Academic Success at UC Davis School of Law. She provides support to all students in meeting their academic goals and strives to assist every law student in being active, engaged, and successful. She teaches an upper division legal writing course, and conducts programs to help students achieve success in their law school classes and on the bar exam. Professor Randon obtained a Masters in Education from CSU Sacramento in 2008 and focused her coursework and thesis on Appreciative Inquiry Evaluation in Education, diversity and pipeline programs, and law school academic support programs. Prior to joining the UC Davis School of Law faculty in 2008, she taught both doctrinal and skills courses at Pacific McGeorge School of Law School, and served as Director of Educational Outreach (to increase diversity in law school) and Director of Academic Success. Professor Randon began her legal career as an associate and later a named partner in Tennant, Ingram & Randon in Sacramento, where she handled insurance defense and civil rights litigation cases. Her passions in life include creating educational opportunities for all, helping people see their own greatness, and, sadly, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Professor Randon is presenting Appreciative Inquiry: Discovering and Learning From Our Strengths as Teachers.
R.J. Robertson, Jr. is Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University School of Law where he teaches contracts and commercial law courses. He has chaired or been a member of the Curriculum Committee for many years. Professor Robertson presents the annual introduction of 1L students to the Socratic method during orientation. He is the co-author of a casebook on remedies.
Professor Robertson is co-presenting Herding Cats: How To Achieve Faculty Cooperation In Teaching Lawyering Skills Across The 1L Curriculum (Without Infringing On Academic Freedom).
Suzanne J. Schmitz is Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Academic Success Program at Southern Illinois University School of Law. She previously worked in the Alternative Dispute Resolution clinic as a clinician and has written on Universal Educational Design as a means of reaching the whole class.
Professor Schmitz is co-presenting Herding Cats: How To Achieve Faculty Cooperation In Teaching Lawyering Skills Across The 1L Curriculum (Without Infringing On Academic Freedom).
Michael Hunter Schwartz is a co-director of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning and the Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Development at Washburn University School of Law. Professor Schwartz is the author of five books (including Teaching Law By Design: Engaging Students From The Syllabus To The Final Exam (Carolina Academic Press, 2009), two law review articles, and four shorter works addressing a wide variety of teaching and learning topics, and he was a named contributing author to Best Practices For Legal Education (CLEA, 2007). He is under contract to publish two additional books addressing teaching and learning topics: Techniques For Teaching Law II (forthcoming 2010, Carolina Academic Press), and What The Best Law Teachers Do (forthcoming 2012, Harvard University Press). Professor Schwartz is also the designer and editor of a series of casebooks (for which he already has published a contracts text and will be publishing a remedies text) designed to implement instructional design principles and the recommendations of the recent Carnegie and Best Practices studies of legal education. Professor Schwartz has spoken about a wide variety of law teaching, learning and curriculum design topics on approximately 100 occasions as a conference presenter and as an invited speaker at various law schools.
Professor Schwartz is co-presenting the pre-conference Teaching Lab.
Sandra Simpson joined the Gonzaga University School of Law faculty as an assistant professor of Legal Research and Writing in August 2007. Prior to joining the law faculty at Gonzaga University School of Law, she spent three years teaching various classes, including American National Politics, Constitutional Law, Modern Congress, and Introduction to Law, at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. Before entering the teaching field, Professor Simpson spent two years in general practice in Iowa City, Iowa, and five years as an employment defense litigator for Workland and Witherspoon, P.L.L.C., in Spokane, Washington. In addition to teaching, Professor Simpson is actively pursuing her passion and commitment to respecting all human life from conception to natural death. To this end, she is doing research in the area of the death penalty and institutional racism. She also continues to do research in the area of employment law. Professor Simpson is the author of "Everyone Else is Doing It, Why Can't We? A New Look at the Use of Statistical Data in Death Penalty Cases," Iowa Journal of Gender, Race, & Justice, 2008.
Professor Simpsone is co-presenting the pre-conference Teaching Lab.
Anneke Smit is with the University of Pretoria Law Clinic, Ring Road. She obtained her LLB degree from UNISA in 2001 and started working at Newtons Incorporated in 2002 where she completed her articles. In 2004 Ms. Smit was admitted as attorney of the High Court of South Africa. During 2005 she accepted a position at the Law Clinic of the University of Pretoria where she headed their debt relief department. In September 2007 she moved to New Zealand for two years where she worked at a maritime law firm. Ms. Smit received her master's degree in mercantile law from UNISA in 2009. She returned to South Africa in October 2009 and was again appointed as the head of the debt relief department at the Law Clinic. The Law Clinic, which forms part of the Procedural Law Department, provides clinical legal education to final year law students and legal services to the indigent. The Law Clinic is the largest facilitator of the National Credit Regulator Debt Counselling Course for which Ms. Smit is one of the presenters. Apart from acting as a clinician, she is also involved in various research projects, lecturing of students and has presented a paper at the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa Conference in 2006.
Ms. Smit is co-presenting Incorporating Practical Exercises to Develop Students' Consultation Skills.
Karen J. Sneddon is Associate Professor at Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law. She teaches Legal Writing, Introduction to Counseling, and Trusts and Estates drafting. Professor Sneddon graduated summa cum laude from Tulane Law School. She practiced law in the area of trusts and estates at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York City, and she was a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School before joining the Mercer Faculty in 2006. Professor Sneddon co-authors a regular column entitled "Writing Matters" in the Georgia Bar Journal. In addition to writing in the area of legal writing, she writes in the area of trusts and estates. She is currently a co-chair of the Legal Writing Institute Professional Development Committee.
Professor Sneddon is co-presenting Not Your Mother's Rhetoric: Rhetorical Teaching Across the Curriculum.
Nancy Soonpaa is Professor of Law and Director of the Legal Practice Program at Texas Tech University School of Law. She has been at Texas Tech since 2001 and also teaches Health Law, Negotiating, and Family Law. Professor Soonpaa began teaching undergraduate writing courses at the University of North Dakota, taught for three years at the University of Puget Sound School of Law, and taught in the Lawyering Program at Albany Law School for six years. Her articles about legal writing often focus on effective pedagogical choices and learning theory and have appeared in several professional journals; she has also published an empirical study on law students and stress. She is one of the editor-authors of the second edition of the ABA's Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs. In addition, she has presented at numerous professional conferences, including those of the Association of American Law Schools, the Legal Writing Institute, the Association of Legal Writing Directors, and the Institute for Law School Teaching. She also teaches CLE's on writing skills. Professor Soonpaa also co-coaches Texas Tech's negotiation teams, one of which won the International Negotiation Competition in 2005, and is on the International Negotiation Competition judging committee. She teaches CLE's and training workshops for other professional groups on negotiation skills.
Professor Soonpaa is presenting Best Intentions, Worst Results: The Pitfalls and Rewards of Innovative Teaching.
Sophie Sparrow is Professor of Law at Franklin Pierce Law Center. She is the co-author of Teaching Law By Design (2009) and has conducted more than 60 workshops and presentations on teaching, professionalism, assessment, and writing to professors, judges, and lawyers. In 2004 she won the Inaugural Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Professionalism and in 2008 became an approved candidate on the Fulbright Specialists Roster. She previously directed Franklin Pierce's legal writing program, helped design New Hampshire's alternative to the bar exam, and served as one of the founding members of Phoenix School of Law. She learned about the transformative strategy of team-based learning a few years ago, and now uses it in her Torts, Remedies, and Legal Writing courses.
Professor Sparrow is co-presenting the plenary session, Using Team Based Learning to Teach Collaborative Practice Skills.
Mary Rose Strubbe is a Professor of Legal Research and Writing, the Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program, and the Assistant Director of the Institute for Law and the Workplace at Chicago-Kent College of Law. She received her J.D. with high honors from Chicago-Kent, and thereafter practiced in the Chicago area for a number of years. Much of her work involved representing employees in employment-related matters. She has taught various skills courses for nearly 20 years to American and international audiences, including Chinese lawyers in Beijing and Shanghai. She also teaches employment law. She is a frequent presenter on both employment law and skills training topics.
Professor Strubbe is co-presenting Modeling Success in Every Law School Class.
