Elizabeth Inglehart

Inglehart, Elizabeth

Clinical Assistant Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-0472
E-mail: e-inglehart@law.northwestern.edu

| Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Elizabeth Inglehart, a native Chicagoan, has been a lawyer since 1991. After law school, she practiced commercial litigation as an associate with Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York City for three and a half years. She then became a legal editor with the legal publisher Matthew Bender & Co. in New York, working in the areas of criminal law, civil procedure, and torts. She joined the Northwestern Faculty in 1997. She continues to write in the areas of commercial law, criminal law, and federal civil procedure.

Areas of Expertise

  • Legal Writing
  • Legal Research

Courses

Selected Publications

  • “The Real World”: Creating a Compelling Appellate Brief Assignment Based on a Real-World Case in 17 perspectives: teaching legal research & writing 128 (2009). (with Martha Kanter )
  • Expert Testimony in Criminal Investigation Handbook (Matthew Bender , 2008).
  • From Cooperative Learning to Collaborative Writing in the Legal Writing Classroom in legal writing: the journal of the legal writing institute 185-226 (2003). (with Kathleen Dillon Narko, and Clifford S. Zimmerman)
  • Teaching U.S. Legal Research Skills to International LL.M. Students: What and How in perspectives: teaching legal research and writing 180-185 (2007).
  • The Voluntariness Standard in Criminal Law Advocacy (Matthew Bender , 2008).

Education

  • BA Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan
  • JD, University of Michigan

Prior Appointments

  • Associate, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
  • Legal Editor, Matthew Bender & Co.