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FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Samantha A. Moppett |
Professor of Legal Writing
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| S H O R T B I O G R A P H Y |
Upon graduating from law school, Professor Moppett clerked for the Justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. Subsequently, she worked as a litigation associate in Boston, Massachusetts. Professor Moppett began her teaching career at Suffolk University Law School. She taught at Suffolk from 1997-1999. Prior to returning to Suffolk University Law School in 2002, she was a Legal Writing Professor at Arizona State University College of Law in Tempe, Arizona, where she taught the first-year Legal Research and Writing course, Appellate Advocacy, Advanced Legal Writing, and Intensive Legal Research and Writing. She has also visited at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, where she taught Advanced Appellate Advocacy, and at Arizona State University College of Law where she taught Intensive Legal Research and Writing.
Degrees:
BA, Bucknell University; JD, Suffolk University
Bar Admittance:
MA; Federal District Court of MA
Subjects:
Legal Practice Skills
Professional Activities:
Co chair, Program Committee, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research, 2012 2013 Member, Program Committee, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research, 2011 2012 Member, Poster Committee, AALS Section on Teaching Methods, 2011 2012 Chair, Poster Committee, AALS Section on Teaching Methods, 2010 2011 Chair, Poster Committee, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research, 2010 2011 Member, Awards Committee, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research, 2009 2010 Member, Nominations Committee, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research, 2009 2010 Chair, Poster Committee, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research, 2008 2009.
| S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S |
NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LEGAL RESEARCH ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB (2000) (with Herb Ramy)
Control-Alt-Incomplete? Using Technology to Assess "Digital Natives", CHI. KENT J. INTELL. PROP. L. (forthcoming 2013)
Think It, Draft It, Post It: Creating Legal Poster Presentations, 18 LEGAL WRITING: J. LEGAL WRITING INST. (forthcoming 2013)
Lawyering Outside the Box: Confronting the Creativity Crisis, 37 S. ILL. U. L.J. 253 (2013)
Acknowledging America's First Sovereign: Incorporating Tribal Justice Systems into the Legal Research and Writing Curriculum, 35 OKLA. CITY U.L. REV. 267 (2010)
Heading the Reader in the Write Direction, MASS. LAW. WKLY. 21 (2009) (May 4)
Wikis While You Work: Incorporating Wikis in the Classroom, 23 :2 THE SECOND DRAFT 12 (2009)
Research Diagnostics: An Interactive Assessment Tool, 22 :2 SECOND DRAFT: BULLETIN OF THE LEGAL WRITING INSTITUTE (2008)
Library Research Labs: A Hands-On Approach to Taking the First Step with Your Students to Reflect Good Practice in Legal Education, 14 :2 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING 1 (2006) (with Rick Buckingham)
Three Views of Visiting, 18:2 THE SECOND DRAFT 1 (2004) (with James Levy and Terrill Pollman)
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act Preempts State Regulation of Public Employees on the Basis of Age, 28 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 865 (1994)
Warrantless Airport Luggage Search Constitutional When Conducted Subsequent to Establishment of Probable Cause and Continual Disclaimer of Ownership, 28 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 872 (1994)
Extending Eighth Amendment Protections to Prisoners Involuntarily Exposed to Unreasonable Levels of Environmental Tobacco Smoke, 28 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 200 (1994)
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Prof. Samantha A. Moppett
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
, Suite 370-D
Boston, MA 02108-4977
t. 617-573-8135
f. 617-305-3091
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