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University of Florida Levin College of Law - Legal Research and Writing
University of Florida Levin College of Law has refined our legal writing and research programs as we seek to develop our students’ writing and research skills throughout all three years of law school. New and longstanding legal skills professors develop, implement, and write about cutting-edge pedagogical techniques and practices designed to meet the needs of our students. You may learn more about our professors’ presentations and scholarship below.
LEGAL WRITING WORKSHOP | DECEMBER 10, 2022
The Florida Law Legal Writing and Drafting Program will host our second annual Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop on December 10, 2022. This year’s workshop theme is “Identifying Law Students’ Educational Needs and Developing Inclusive and Effective Teaching Strategies to Meet Them.”  In addition to our own faculty’s presentations and panels, legal and writing professors from across the country will come to our campus to present their research, best practices, and pedagogical techniques.  For more information and to register for the workshop, click here.
RECENT FACULTY PRESENTATIONS AND SCHOLARSHIP
Mary Adkins
Master Legal Skills Professor
  • Discussant, “Writing Connections Workshop: One By One: Developing Student Professional Identity through Individual Outreach,” SEALS Conference, Destin, Florida, August 2022.
  • Presenter, “How Florida’s Judicial System Works,” Democratic Women’s Club of the Lake Area, Melrose, Florida, June 2022. 
  • Presenter, “Amending the Florida Constitution,” Democratic Women’s Clubs of Florida Convention, Orlando, Florida, April 2022. 
  • Author-Presenter, “Chesterfield Smith, America’s Lawyer,” And The Women Gather, Deland, Florida, March 2022.  
  • Presenter, “A ‘Fundamental Value’? How Florida’s Constitution Has, or Has Not, Protected Public Schools since 1968,” Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting, St. Leo, Florida, February 2022.
  • Speaker, Florida Lecture Series, “Chesterfield Smith, America’s Lawyer,” Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, January 2022.
  • Presenter, “Writing, But Not About Writing: Scholarship Outside the Legal Writing Field,” Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, University of Florida Levin College of Law, December 2021.
  • Florida Constitutional Law: Cases in Context (2021) (with Tim McLendon and Jon L. Mills).
Sara Bensley
Legal Research Professor; Emerging Legal Technology Specialist
  • Robotics, AI and the Future of Law, 112 L. Libr. J. 39 (2020) (book review).
Lisa DeSanctis
Legal Skills Professor
  • Presenter, “Holdings as Hypotheses: Enhancing Engagement Through Contextual Understanding,” Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, October 2022.  
  • Presenter, “Self-Assessment and the Ghost of Christmas Past,” Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, University of Florida Levin College of Law, December 2021.
Ben Fernandez
Senior Legal Skills Professor
  • Presenter, “Grading, Assessment, and Feedback That Promote Inclusive Learning,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, July 2022.
  • Presenter, “Beyond Conventions in Legal Drafting,” Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, University of Florida Levin College of Law, December 2021.
  • “Should Students Read and Apply Cases in a Contract Drafting Class?,” 34 The Second Draft (December 2021).
  • Legal Writing I & II: Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice (2021).
  • Transactional Drafting: Introduction to Contract Drafting and Transactional Practice (2021).
Kristen Hardy
Legal Skills Professor
  • Panelist, “Faculty Life at an R1 Institution,” Preparing Future Faculty Program, University of Florida, March 2022.
  • Presenter, “Demystifying Legal Writing: Using the Orientation Process to Familiarize 1Ls With Legal Writing,” Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, University of Florida Levin College of Law, December 2021.
Elizabeth Hilkin
Legal Research Professor; Assistant Director for Public Services
  • Justice on the Brink: A Requiem for the Supreme Court, 114 L. Libr. J. (forthcoming) (book review).
  • A Century of Citation in the Florida Supreme Court, in The Role of Citation in the Law: A Yale Law School Symposium 613 (Michael Chiorazzi ed., 2020) (with Jane O'Connell).  
Sabrina Lopez
Legal Skills Professor; Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives; Director of Legal Writing and Drafting
  • Panelist, “An Uneven Playing Field: Demystifying the Lawyering Skills Classroom for First Generation and Other Non-Traditional Students,” Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, July 2022.
  • Panelist, “Teaching Evaluations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, July 2022.
  • Panelist, “Should the Exchange of Feedback be a Learning Outcome?,” AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, May 2022.
  • Moderator, “Research, Writing and First-Generation Students,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, August 2022.
  • Panelist, “Collaboration and Creativity; First Year Legal Research in 2022,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, July 2022.
  • Coordinator and Panelist, “Your One Best Thing,” Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, University of Florida Levin College of Law, December 2021.
  • Presenter, “Beyond Conventions in Legal Drafting,” Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, University of Florida Levin College of Law, December 2021.
Tim McLendon
Legal Skills Professor
  • Florida Constitutional Law: Cases in Context (2021) (with Mary Adkins and Jon L. Mills).
Silvia Menendez
Master Legal Skills Professor; Associate Dean for Experiential Learning
  • Presenter, “Beyond Conventions in Legal Drafting,” Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, University of Florida Levin College of Law, December 2021.
Jane O’Connell
Senior Legal Skills Professor; Associate Dean for Legal Information
  • A Century of Citation in the Florida Supreme Court, in The Role of Citation in the Law: A Yale Law School Symposium 613 (Michael Chiorazzi ed., 2022) (with Elizabeth Hilkin).
  • Tracking Giants: Professor Hovenkamp and Impact Metrics, in Herbert Hovenkamp Liber Amicorum 25 (Nicolas Charbit & Sébastien Gachot eds., Concurrences 2021) (with Barak Orbach and D. Daniel Sokol).
Paige Snelgro
Legal Skills Professor
  • Moderator and Panelist, “Should the Exchange of Feedback be a Learning Outcome?,” AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, May 2022.
Avery Vinson
Legal Research Professor; Student Services Specialist
  • Presenter, “Addressing Unique Issues Confronting Older Victims During COVID and Beyond,” National Crime Victim Law Institute Conference, October 2021.
  • Presenter, “Protecting Older Adults from Disaster Scams,” Equal Justice Works Webinar, June 2021.
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