Lisa McElroy’s interests and expertise focus on legal methods and the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Coming to Drexel from the Southern New England School of Law, Professor McElroy has
extensive experience teaching legal writing, legal research and interviewing techniques,
as well as leading delegations of students to the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Congress.
Previously, Professor McElroy was a professor of legal writing at Roger Williams
University School of Law, where she also directed annual student visits to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
A frequent commentator on Court TV (now part of CNN), Professor McElroy also appeared
regularly for two years as the Satellite Sister, Esq. on the nationally syndicated
Satellite Sisters radio program before the show went off the air in Fall 2008.
Professor McElroy is a regular contributor to Parenting magazine and has written numerous
books for children about Supreme Court justices and prominent elected officials.
Her books have been featured and reviewed in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune,
Legal Times and local newspapers.
Her scholarly publications include “Using an Attorney Mastery Scale” and “My Best Class:
Saving the Astronauts,” in The Second Draft: The Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute
and “From Grimm to Glory: Simulated Oral Argument as a Component of Legal
Education's Signature Pedagogy,” forthcoming in the Indiana Law Journal.
After earning her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, she worked as a litigation
associate at the Boston law firms of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault and Gadsby &
Hannah, LLP.
