Legal Research and Writing

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U.S. News & World Report ranks Stetson’s Legal Research and Writing Program third among law schools across the country. Stetson educates students to be ethical, self-motivated and excellent legal communicators. The faculty works to develop legal writing as an academic discipline on a local, national, and international level.

Leading the Way

  • Full-time tenured and tenure-track legal writing professors with substantial practice, teaching, publication, and leadership experience
  • Seven credits of legal research and writing courses required in the first year
  • Individualized attention including office conferences, oral arguments and small classes for first-year legal writing students
  • Specialized moot court training in Stetson’s award-winning advocacy program
  • 2009 host of the Southeast Regional Legal Writing Conference
  • 2010 host of Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop for Legal Writing Faculty
  • Three academic law journals: Stetson Law Review, Journal of International Aging Law and Policy, and Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy
  • Project for Excellence in Legal Communication produces legal writing programs and materials
  • Scholarly Writing Series for students in seminars and independent research courses
  • Frequent awards for student writing excellence, including two consecutive Burton Legal Writing Award winners
  • Host of Virtual Legal Writing Conference Webinars

Director's Message
media/kirsten_davis_tn.jpg“At Stetson, our mission is to lead the way in legal research and writing. Through a robust curriculum that is centered on assessment and feedback, we empower students to be both effective and ethical communicators in the legal profession. And through our leadership and scholarship in the legal communication discipline, we collaborate with our colleagues around the world to improve our knowledge and mastery of legal research and writing. I invite you to join us on our journey."

Kirsten K. Davis
Director of Legal Research and Writing
and Associate Professor of Law

NEXT WEBINAR:
The Pedagogical Method of
Live Commenting/Grading
Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012
12:00-1:00 p.m. EST 

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