200+

10 63 140+

6 37

10+

years of combined teaching experience

books law review articles

total publications

Burton student awards

Scribes student awards

conferences hosted

writing electivesoffered per year

law.asu.edu/legalwriting

Legal Writing

12 full-time professors

The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University recognizes that security of position and status are necessary to foster excellence in all faculty members. Our legal writing faculty members begin on a clinical tenure track (continuing status) and once achieved, faculty members enjoy full security of position. This offers greater protection than 405(c) status and is not a contract position.

Faculty members are also eligible for promotion from Associate Clinical Professor to Clinical Professor. Legal writing faculty participate fully in law school governance and intellectual life and vote on all law school matters except for the hiring and promotion of tenure-track faculty. They serve on law school and university committees, and they receive sabbaticals, summer research grants, and professional development funds.

Faculty Status and Security

ASU Law offers 10+ writing elective courses for 2L and 3L students each year. These offerings include the following, with some courses offered in multiple sections per year.

• Advanced Legal Research

• Advanced Legal Writing: ADR

• Advanced Legal Writing: Litigation Practice

• Advanced Legal Writing: Persuasion

• Appellate Advocacy

• Contract Drafting and Negotiating

• Indian Legal Research

• Intensive Legal Research and Writing

• Writing for Judicial Clerks

• Writing for Law Practice

Upper-Level

Writing Elective

Courses

In 2016, the law school moved into the newly constructed Beus Center for Law and Society (BCLS). This $129 million, 280,000-square-foot building was conceived and developed with openness to the public in mind—a unique urban environment where society and the study and practice of law converge.

In addition to the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, the BCLS is also home to the Arizona Legal Center, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, the McCain Institute for International Leadership, Sandra Day O’Connor Institute, Arizona Voice for Crime Victims, and the Arizona Justice Project.

Beus Center for Law and Society

Faculty

• Professor and Alan Matheson Fellow in Law

• LegaL Method and Writing (8th ed. 2018) (with Kimberly Holst)

• Section Award, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research (2019)

• Member, American Law Institute (2007)

• ABA Spirit of Excellence Award (2011)

• Los Abogados Lifetime Achievement Award (2015)

• LaW SchooL and exaMS: PreParing and Writing to Win (3d ed. 2021)

• contractS: caSeS, text, and ProbLeMS (2d ed. 2020)

Charles Calleros

Faculty

• Distinguished Professorship in Legal Method

• Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing (2013)

• President, Association of Legal Writing Directors(2008-2009)

• Preemptive Dicta: The Problem Created by Judicial Efficiency, 54 LOYOLA L.A. L. ReV. __ (forthcoming 2021)

• exaMPLeS & exPLanationS: LegaL Writing (3d ed. 2019)(with Terrill Pollman)

• When Tribal Disenrollment Becomes Cruel and Unusual, 97 NEB. L. REV. 820 (2019)

• the tao of LegaL Writing (2009)

• Why Dicta Becomes Holding and Why It Matters, 76 brook. L. reV. 219 (2010)

• How LRW Faculty Can Best Position Themselves for Law School Administration, 30 Second draft 48 (2017)

• Rocky Mountain Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Region (2013)

Judy Stinson

Tamara Herrera

• Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

• W.P. Kay Fellow

• Secretary, Association of Legal Writing Directors(2016-2020)

• Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Region (2015)

• arizona LegaL reSearch (3d ed. 2017)

• Getting the Arizona Courts and Arizona Legislature on the Same (Drafting) Page, 47 ariz. St. L. reV. 367 (2015)

• Outstanding ASU Law Faculty Member (2014)

• Outstanding Faculty Advisor for Arizona State Law Journal (2015-2016 and 2005-2006)

• Monthly legal writing column for Maricopa Lawyer and member of its editorial board, 2005 – present

Faculty

• LaW 101: What LaW SchooL’S reaLLy Like (the book and documentary) (2015)

• the zen of LaW SchooL SucceSS (2012)

• the zen of PaSSing the bar exaM (2010)

• the arizona bar exaM: PaSS it noW (2011)

• Secretary, AALS Section on Balance in Legal Education (2020)

• Law School, One Breath at a Time, THE NATIONAL JURIST (Summer 2020)

• The Zen of Overcoming Procrastination, THE SECOND

DRAFT (Spring 2020)

• E=LS² (Energy = Law School Success), Student

LaWyer (April 2017)

• Memory and Remembering for Law Students, the

Learning curVe (March 2016)

• National lecturer for Barbri and The Zen of Passing the Bar Exam seminars

Chad Noreuil

Faculty

• Lead Article Editor, LEGAL COMMUNICATION & RHETORIC: JALWD, 2020 - present; Associate Editor, 2013-2020

• Capitol Drafting: Legislative Drafting Manuals in the Law School Classroom, 22 PerSP. 141 (2014), cited in O’Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy, 851 F.3d 69 (1st Cir. 2017)

• Conference Chair, Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference (2009)

• Member, Program Committee for LWI Biennial Conference (2011-2012)

• Committee on Cooperation Among Clinical, Extern, and Legal Writing Faculty, Legal Writing Institute(2007-2009)

Amy Langenfeld

Faculty

• From Clause A to Clause Z: Narrative Transportation and the Transactional Reader, 71 S. C. L. reV. 247(2019) (with Karen J. Sneddon)

• Telling Tales: The Transactional Lawyer as Storyteller, 15 LEGAL COMMUNICATION & RHETORIC: JALWD 119(2018) (with Karen J. Sneddon)

• Tales from a Form Book: Stock Stories and Transactional Documents, 78 Mont. L. reV. 501 (2017)(with Karen J. Sneddon)

• Once Upon a Transaction: Narrative Techniques and Drafting, 68 okLa. L. reV. 263 (2016) (with Karen J. Sneddon)

• Measuring Student Progress: Assessing and Providing Feedback, 14 tranSactionS: tenn. J. buS. L. (SPeciaL

rePort) 489 (2013) (with Karen J. Sneddon)

• Member and Mentor, Scholarship Grants Committee, Association of Legal Writing Directors, 2016-present

• Co-chair, LWI Biennial Conference Program Committee, 2018-2020

Susan Chesler

Faculty

• Legal Writing Institute Board of Directors (2014-2022); President (2020-2022), President-elect (2018-2020), Secretary (2016-2018), Board Member (2014-2018)

• AALS Section on Legal Reasoning, Writing, and Research, Section Chair (2014-2015)

• JournaL of the LegaL Writing inStitute (2012-2020), Associate Editor-in-Chief Social Media (2017-2020), Co-Managing Editor (2014-2016)

• Do Muddy Waters Shift Burdens?, 76 U. MD. L. REV. 629 (2017) (with Carrie Sperling)

• Commentary on Bradwell v. Illinois in feMiniStS

JudgMentS: reWritten oPinionS of the united StateS SuPreMe court (2016)

• LegaL Method and Writing (8th ed. 2018) (withCharles Calleros)

• LWI Sirico Scholars Governing Board (2014-2018)

• AALS Section on Teaching Methods, Chair (2020)

Kim Holst

Faculty

• Good Cops, Bad Cops & The Future of the Exclusionary Rule, 23 U. Pa. J. of conSt. L. __ (2021)(forthcoming)

• The Case for Plagiarism, 9 U.C. IRVINE L. REV. 531(2019)

• Editorial Board, LWi MonograPh SerieS, 2018 – present

• Associate Editor, LEGAL COMMUNICATION & RHETORIC: JALWD (2013-2018)

• The Reader’s Limited Capacity: A Working Memory Theory for the Legal Writer, 11 LegaL coMM. & rhetoric

31 (2014)

• Co-Chair, Program Committee, Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, 2013, 2015, 2017

• Age Matters: The Case for a Constitutionalized Infancy Defense, 54 U. kan. L. reV. 687 (2006)

Andrew Carter

Faculty

• JournaL of the LegaL Writing inStitute, Editorial Board Member (2018-present), Managing Editor (2019-2020)

• Editorial Board, LWi MonograPh SerieS, 2018–2020

• Have You Ever . . . ? How State Bar Association Inquiries into Mental Health Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, 80 brook. L. reV. 677 (2015)

• The Care and Feeding of Law Student Research Assistants, 25 PerSP. 101 (2017) (with Rachel H. Smith)

• Teach Them to Fish: Giving Junior Attorneys Feedback on Their Writing, WaSh. LaW. 30 (2015)

• AALS Section on Legal Reasoning, Writing, and Research Executive Committee, 2018

Alyssa Dragnich

Faculty

• Legal Writing Institute Board of Directors (2014-2022); Communications and Public Relations Co-Officer (2020-2022)

• Co-Chair of Legal Writing Institute’s Professional Status Committee (2015-present)

• Engaging First-Year Law Students through ProBono Collaborations, 62 J. LEGAL EDUC. 586 (2013)(reprinted in Volume 9 of the Legal Writing Institute’s Monograph Series)

• Legal Writing As Office Housework? 69 J. LEGAL EDUC. __ (forthcoming 2020)

• Cracking Student Silos: Linking Legal Writing and Clinical Learning through Transference, 25 CLINICAL L. REV. 269 (2019) (with Lisa Ellen Brodoff)

Mary Bowman

Faculty

• Coach, National Veterans Law Moot Court Competition

• Volunteer Appellate Counsel, The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program

• Co-Chair, Military & Veterans Network, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

• Faculty, State Bar of Arizona Course on Professionalism

• From the Dojo to the Classroom: Applying Martial Arts Coaching Skills to Teaching Legal Writing, the Second draft, Fall 2020

• Assistant Editor, LegaL Writing: the JournaL of the LegaL Writing inStitute

Ann Ching

Faculty

• Screen Time Limits: Reconsidering Presentation Software for the Law School Classroom, 23 J. LEGAL

WRITING 173 (2019)

• “What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Communicate”: The Plain Writing Act of 2010, 40 J. LEGIS. 280 (2014)

• JournaL of the LegaL Writing inStitute, EditorialBoard Member (2018-present), Managing Editor(2020-present)

• Making the Most out of Court Observations in the 1L Year, 33 the Second draft 40 (Spring 2020)

Rachel Stabler

Faculty

law.asu.edu/legalwriting

Legal Writing Faculty

Mary Bowman

Charles Calleros

Andrew Carter

Susan Chesler

Ann Ching

Alyssa Dragnich

Tamara Herrera

Kim Holst

Amy Langenfeld

Chad Noreuil

Rachel Stabler

Judy Stinson

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