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.
Articles
See One, Do One, Teach One: Dissecting the Use of Medical Education’s Signature Pedagogy in the Law School Curriculum (forthcoming 2010) (with Christine N. Coughlin and Sandy Patrick), Georgia State University Law Review (2010)
With the recent publication of the Best Practices in Legal Education, and the Carnegie Report...
Sex on the Brain: Adolescent Psychosocial Science and Sanctions for Risky Sex (forthcoming 2010), NYU Review of Law & Social Change (2010)
The Other Side of the Story: Using Graphic Organizers as Cognitive Learning Tools to Teach Students to Construct Effective Counter-Analysis (forthcoming 2010) (with Christine N. Coughlin), University of Baltimore Law Review (2010)
In law school, it is critical for students to look at issues from both sides,...