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FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Samantha A. Moppett |
Professor of Legal Writing
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Upon graduating from law school, Professor Moppett clerked for the Justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. Subsequently, she worked as a litigation associate in Boston, Massachusetts. Professor Moppett began her teaching career at Suffolk University Law School. She taught at Suffolk from 1997-1999. Prior to returning to Suffolk University Law School in 2002, she was a Legal Writing Professor at Arizona State University College of Law in Tempe, Arizona, where she taught the first-year Legal Research and Writing course, Appellate Advocacy, Advanced Legal Writing, and Intensive Legal Research and Writing. She has also visited at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, where she taught Advanced Appellate Advocacy, and at Arizona State University College of Law where she taught Intensive Legal Research and Writing.
Degrees:
BA, Bucknell University; JD, Suffolk University
Bar Admittance:
MA; Federal District Court of MA
Subjects:
Legal Practice Skills
Professional Activities:
Editorial Board Member of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, July 2006-July 2010; Editor, The Second Draft; Member, Website Committee, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, 2007-2008; Member, Nominating Committee, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, 2006-2007; Member, Legal Writing Institute; Member, New England Legal Writing Consortium; Member, Scribes - The American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects; Member, Society of American Law Teachers; Assistant Editor, Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, July 2004-July 2006.
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NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LEGAL RESEARCH ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB (2000 ) (with Herb Ramy)
Wikis While You Work: Incorporating Wikis in the Classroom, 23 :2 THE SECOND DRAFT 12 (2009)
Research Diagnostics: An Interactive Assessment Tool, 22 :2 SECOND DRAFT: BULLETIN OF THE LEGAL WRITING INSTITUTE (2008)
Library Research Labs: A Hands-On Approach to Taking the First Step with Your Students to Reflect Good Practice in Legal Education, 14 :2 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING 1 (2006) (with Rick Buckingham)
Three Views of Visiting, 18:2 THE SECOND DRAFT 1 (2004) (with James Levy and Terrill Pollman)
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act Preempts State Regulation of Public Employees on the Basis of Age, 28 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 865 (1994)
Warrantless Airport Luggage Search Constitutional When Conducted Subsequent to Establishment of Probable Cause and Continual Disclaimer of Ownership, 28 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 872 (1994)
Extending Eighth Amendment Protections to Prisoners Involuntarily Exposed to Unreasonable Levels of Environmental Tobacco Smoke, 28 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 200 (1994)
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Prof. Samantha A. Moppett
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
, Suite 370-D
Boston, MA 02108-4977
t. 617.573-8135
f. 617.305.3091
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