Brian Foley joins Drexel Law as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law. He is currently an Associate Professor of Law at Florida Coastal School of Law. Professor Foley graduated from Boalt Hall where he served as an Associate Editor of the California Law Review. He then clerked for Judge Edmund Ludwig of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. After practicing with Dechert, Price & Rhoads and Connolly Epstein Chicco Foxman Engelmyer & Ewing, he taught at Rutgers School of Law, in Camden, Widener University School of Law, and Touro College Law Center. He has developed and taught continuing legal education programs for lawyers and law firms about legal writing and persuasion, including using storytelling techniques in briefs, and has served as an arbitrator in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. His most recent article, “Guantanamo and Beyond: Dangers of Rigging the Rules,” will appear in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. He does pro bono criminal defense work for the Defender Association of Philadelphia and is currently involved in litigation seeking to have life-without-possibility-of-parole sentences ruled unconstitutional when applied to juveniles. Professor Foley will be teaching Evidence and Criminal Procedure at Drexel Law.
Articles
Guantanamo and Beyond: Dangers of Rigging the Rules, The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (2008)
Supporters of the U.S. antiterrorism policy of indefinitely imprisoning “enemy combatants” captured in the “War...
Fiction 101: A Primer For Lawyers On How To Use Fiction Writing (with Ruth Anne Robbins), Rutgers Law Journal (2001)
This article talks about how to build a story in legal writing using fiction-writing concepts...