Elizabeth Inglehart
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Phone
(312) 503-0472
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Assistant
Shona Bonds
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-4852
Assistant Email
shona-bonds@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Professor Inglehart teaches Communication and Legal Reasoning and Common Law Reasoning. Prior to joining the Northwestern Pritzker Law faculty, she practiced law with Willkie Farr and Gallagher in New York, concentrating in commercial litigation. She was also active in pro bono litigation, including special education law and political asylum cases. After law practice, she was a legal editor with the legal publisher Matthew Bender & Co. in New York, working in the areas of criminal law, civil procedure, and torts. Her current research interests include collaboration and learning theory and the pedagogy of teaching legal analysis and writing. She writes in these areas and in the areas of commercial law, criminal law, and criminal and civil procedure.
Areas of Expertise
- Legal Writing
- Legal Research
Selected Publications
- "The Real World": Creating a Compelling Appellate Brief Assignment Based on a Real-World Case, 17 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 128 (2009) (Co-authored by: Martha Kanter).
- Teaching U.S. Legal Research Skills to International LL.M. Students: What and How, 15 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 180 (2007).
- From Cooperative Learning to Collaborative Writing in the Legal Writing Classroom, 9 Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 185 (2003) (Co-authored by: Kathleen Dillon Narko & Clifford S. Zimmerman).
- Medical Discovery, in LexisNexis Practice Guide Pennsylvania Civil Discovery (
2010 ). - Seeking or Opposing Motion to Compel Disclosure of ESI, in LexisNexis Practice Guide: New York e-Discovery and Evidence (
2009 ). - Defendants Who Refuse to Admit Guilt: Nolo Contendere Pleas and Alford Pleas, in Criminal Law Advocacy (
2011 ).
Education
- BA Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan
- JD, University of Michigan
Prior Appointments
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
- Associate, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
- Legal Editor, Matthew Bender & Co.