Linda Edwards | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Linda Edwards
		Visiting Professor of Law, 2008-09


		Phone: 702-895-2319 Email: linda.edwards@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A., Florida State University, 1970 J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law, 1976

	Professor Edwards joins UNLV Law as a Visiting Professor of Law for 2008-09. A leader in the field of Legal Writing and Research, Professor Edwards is the Macon Professor of Law and the Director of the Legal Writing Program at Mercer University School of Law. She is a founding member of the Persuasion Institute of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and is active in many ABA and AALS sections. After practicing law for 11 years, Professor Edwards began law teaching at the New York University School of Law in 1987, where she served as the Coordinator of the Lawyering Program. She has authored three books and numerous articles on legal research and writing and property law. Professor Edwards will teach Property I, Property II, and Wills, Trusts and Estates at UNLV.

	Areas of Expertise: Estates and Future Interests Law and Rhetoric Property Law

	Selected Publications: BOOKS Briefs That Changed the World: Advanced Strategies in Legal Argument (forthcoming 2009). Legal Writing and Analysis, 2d. ed., (Aspen Law and Business, 2007)(1st. ed., 2003). Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization, 4th. ed., (Aspen Law and Business, 2006) (3d. ed. 2002) (2d. ed. 1999) (1st. ed., 1996). Estates In Land And Future Interests: A Step-By-Step Guide, 2d. ed., Aspen Law and Business (2005)(1st ed., 2002). LAW REVIEW AND OTHER ARTICLES Scholarship By Legal Writing Professors: New Voices In the Legal Academy , 11 J. Leg. Writing 3 (2006) Lexis Westlaw The Process and the Product: A Bibliography of Scholarship About Legal Scholarship, 49 Mercer L. Rev. 741 (1998). The Convergence of Analogical and Dialectic Imaginations in Legal Discourse, 20 Legal Stud. F. 7 (1996) (lead article). Honoring the Law in Communities of Force: Wildman and Terrell's Teleology of Practice, 41 Emory L.J. 489 (1992) (with Jack Sammons). Civil Rights In Employment: The New Generation, 67 Den. U.L. Rev. 1 (1990) (lead article). Watson v. Ft. Worth Bank and Trust: The Changing Face of Disparate Impact. 66 Den. U.L. Rev. 179 (1989). Atonio v. Wards Cove Packing Co., Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases, (Feb. 9, 1989). Book Review, Bowker's Legal Publishing Preview. Vol. 1, No. 2, reviewing Modjeska, Employment Discrimination Law (March 1989).

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