Elizabeth Inglehart
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 Research
- Legal Writing
PUBLICATIONS
Representative Publications
- "The Real World": Creating a Compelling Appellate Brief Assignment Based on a Real-World Case, in 17 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING 128 (2009) (Co-authored by: Martha Kanter)
- Teaching U.S. Legal Research Skills to International LL.M. Students: What and How, in PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING 180-185 (2007)
- From Cooperative Learning to Collaborative Writing in the Legal Writing Classroom, in LEGAL WRITING: THE JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL WRITING INSTITUTE 185-226 (2003) (Co-authored by: Kathleen Dillon Narko and Clifford S. Zimmerman)
- Expert Testimony, in Criminal Investigation Handbook (Matthew Bender 2008)
- The Voluntariness Standard, in Criminal Law Advocacy (Matthew Bender 2008)
Recent Publications
- “The Real World”: Creating a Compelling Appellate Brief Assignment Based on a Real-World Case , 17 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING 128, 2009
- “The Real World”: Creating a Compelling Appellate Brief Assignment Based on a Real-World Case
- Expert Testimony, Criminal Investigation Handbook , 2008
- Evidence and the Witness Examination Process, Criminal Law Advocacy , 2008
- The Voluntariness Standard, Criminal Law Advocacy , 2008
EDUCATION
- BA, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan
- JD, University of Michigan
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Associate, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
- Legal Editor, Matthew Bender & Co.

