About the Author
Mary Beth Beazley
Education:
B.A., Bowling Green State University, 1979 (cum laude)
J.D., University of Notre Dame, 1983
Background:
Professor Beazley came to The Ohio State University in 1988 after serving as co-director of the Legal Research, Writing, and Reasoning Program at Vermont Law School and as a research and writing instructor at the University of Toledo. She teaches Writing and Analysis, Appellate Advocacy, and Advanced Legal Writing, and she has coached the National Moot Court Team for many years.
She served as the president of the Legal Writing Institute from 1998-00; she has also served as editor-in-chief and as a member of the editorial board of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. She is currently the chair of the ABA's Communications Skills Committee. She will serve as president-elect of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) during 2008-09, and as its president during 2009-10.
Books:
A Practical Guide to Appellate Advocacy, (Aspen, 2006)
A Practical Guide to Appellate Advocacy, (Aspen, 2002)
Articles:
Better Writing, Better Thinking: Using Legal Writing Pedagogy in the "Casebook" Classroom
(without Grading Papers), 10 Legal Writing 23 (2004).
“Riddikulus!”: Tenure-Track Legal Writing Faculty and the Boggart in the Wardrobe, 7 Scribes J. LEGAL WRITING 79 (2000)
How to Read a Writing Sample, 87 Illinois Bar J. 6 (1999).
The Process and the Product: A Bibliography of Scholarship about Legal Scholarship, 49 MERCER
L. REV. 741 (1998).
The Self-Graded Draft: Teaching Students to Revise Using Guided Self-Critique, 3 LEGAL
WRITING 175 (1997).
Teaching Students How to 'Think Like Lawyers': Integrating Socratic Method with the Writing
Process, 64 TEMP. L. REV. 885 (1991).
