Judith Bernstein Tracy received her B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan in 1968 and her J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1971. She was a litigation associate in a Chicago law firm and then served for ten years with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, first as the associate director of the Chicago office and then as the executive director of the Boston office.

Professor Tracy was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College from 1983-1985, where she studied the role of the courts in overseeing complex remedial decrees in law reform cases, and she designed a course in equitable remedies, which she taught at Northeastern University School of Law. From 1985 to 1991, Professor Tracy was an assistant general counsel at the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, where she presided as a hearing officer in the administrative adjudication of disciplinary cases against physicians.

Since 1991, Professor Tracy has been teaching a variety of courses at Boston College Law School, including Introduction to Lawyering and Professional Responsibility, Advanced Legal Writing , and Legal Reasoning, Research & Writing. She was appointed Associate Professor of Legal Reasoning, Research & Writing in 1999, and received the Emil Slizewski Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001.

EDUCATION

B.A., University of Michigan; J.D., University of Chicago.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Presentations: With Joan A. Shear, “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child; It Takes Two Professionals to Successfully Teach Research and Analysis—A Simulated Class Reflecting a Truly Integrated First-Year Legal Research and Writing Curriculum,” Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Atlanta, GA, in June 2006."Creative Use of Samples to Teach the Conversion of Objective Writing to Persuasive Writing," a basic workshop for new legal writing teachers at the Tenth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Knoxville, Tennessee, in May. With Dan Barnett, "Designing Legal Writing Problems: Balancing Pedagogy with the Realities of Law Practice," at the Legal Writing Institute Conference in Seattle, Washington, in July 2000.

Activities: Participated in a conference of the New England Legal Writing Consortium, at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire, in June. Participated in a meeting of the New England Legal Writing Consortium, hosted by Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, in March 2002. With department colleagues, developed original materials for and hosted the winter meeting of the consortium at Boston College in December 2001.

Other: Professor Tracy was presented with the Emil Slizewski Excellence in Teaching Award as part of the 2001 commencement ceremonies by the class of 2001.

COURSES

Fall '07: Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing
Spring '08: Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing

• With Elisabeth Keller. "Hidden in Plain Sight: Achieving More Just Results in Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Cases by Re-Examining Supreme Court Precedent."  Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 15: issue 1 (January 2008): 247-274.
  
• ""I See and I Remember; I Do and Understand": Teaching Fundamental Structure in Legal Writing Through the Use of Samples." Touro Law Review 21: no.2 (2005): 297-348.
  
  
• "Constructing an Analytical Framework That Captures and Verifies Implicit Reasoning." The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 14:no.2 (May 2000): 6-7.
  
  
• "Technology in the Classroom: Writing Labs." The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 13:no.2 (May 1999): 5-7.
  
  
• With Jane Gionfriddo and E. Joan Blum, editors. The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 13-14 (1999-2000).