"The teaching, support, helpful comments, and availability in office hours transformed us from the students we were in August.  It is the most essential class in the first -year curriculum because lawyers must analyze and communicate effectively."
-- Excerpt from course evaluations after 1L year

(Full list available at individual faculty websites provided below)

DANIEL BARNETT

With Jane Kent Gionfriddo and E. Joan Blum, A Methodology for Mentoring Writing in Law Practice: Using Textual Clues to Provide Effective and Efficient Feedback, 27 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 171 (2009).

“Form Ever Follows Function”: Using Technology to Improve Feedback in Law Student Writing, 42 Val. U. L. Rev. 755 (2008).

Triage in the Trenches of the Legal Writing Course: The Theory and Methodology of Analytical Critique, 38 U. Tol. L. Rev. 651 (2007).

In Vitro Fertilization: Third Party Motherhood and the Changing Definition of Legal Parent, 17 Pac. L. J. 231 (1985).

http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/barnettd.html

E. JOAN BLUM

Massachusetts Legal Research, Carolina Press (forthcoming 2010).

With Kathleen Elliott Vinson, Teaching in Practice: Legal Writing Faculty as Expert Writing Consultants to Law Firms, 60 Mercer L. Rev. no.2, 790 (Winter 2009).

With Jane Kent Gionfriddo and Daniel L. Barnett, A Methodology for Mentoring Writing in Law Practice: Using Textual Clues to Provide Effective and Efficient Feedback, 27 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 171 (2009).

Clarifying the Law on Post-Employment Covenants, 178 New Jersey Law Journal 765 (November 22, 2004).

Why You Should Use a Course Web Page, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 10: no.1, 15 (Fall 2001).

Writing Labs: Commenting on Student Work-In-Progress, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 14, no.1, 11 (November 1999).

Teaching Case Synthesis in Living Color, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 12, no.1, 7 (November 1997).

With Jane Kent Gionfriddo, editors, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute (1994-2000).

http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/blumj.html

MARY ANN CHIRBA-MARTIN

Drawing Lines in Shifting Sands: The U.S. Supreme Court's Mixed Messages on ERISA Preemption Imperil Health Care Reform, Notre Dame J. of Leg. (forthcoming 2009).

Avoiding the Avoidable: Why State Laws Need to Protect Kids from Airbags, 7 Indiana Health L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009).

Legal Issues in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics. 4th ed. William Carey, et al., editors, Philadelphia, PA: Saunders/Elsevier (2009).

With Andres Torres, Universal Health Care in Massachusetts: Setting the Standard for National Reform, 35 Fordham Urb. L. J., no. 3, 409 (April 2008).

With Carolyn M. Welshhans. An Uncertain Risk and an Uncertain Future: Assessing the Legal Implications of Mercury Amalgam Fillings, 14 Health Matrix 293 (2004).

With Frederick Anderson, E. Donald Elliott, Cynthia Farina [and others], Regulatory Improvement Legislation: Risk Assessment, Cost benefit Analysis, and Judicial Review, 21 Duke Env. L. & Policy Rev. 89 (2000).

Editor and Co-author, Report: Regulatory Improvement Legislation: Judicial Review of Provisions Regarding Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis. Boston, MA: Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health (1999).

With Troyen A. Brennan, Managing the Competition: Massachusetts Initiatives in Workers' Compensation, in Workers' Compensation Medical Care: Effective Measurement of Outcomes, edited by Kate Kimpan, Cambridge, MA: Workers Compensation Research Institute (1996).

With Troyen A. Brennan. The Critical Role of ERISA in State Health Reform, 13 Health Affairs 142 (1994).

Videotaping Testimony of Child Witnesses in Sexual Offense Cases, 71 Mass. L. Rev. 200 (Winter 1986).

Employers' Indirect Discrimination: DeGrace v. Rumsfeld, 22 B. C. L. Rev. 149 (1980).

Seniority Systems: California Brewers Association v. Bryant, 22 B. C. L. Rev. 149 (1980).

The Scope of Federal Habeas Corpus Review: Rose v. Mitchell, 21  B. C. L. Rev. 948 (1980).

 http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/chirba-martinm.html

JANE KENT GIONFRIDDO

 Editor-in-Chief, Monograph Series of the Legal Writing Institute, 2008 to present.

With Daniel Barnett and E. Joan Blum, A Methodology for Mentoring Writing in Law Practice: Using Textual Clues to Provide Effective and Efficient Feedback, 27 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 171 (2009).

Thinking Like a Lawyer: The Heuristics of Case Synthesis, 40 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 1 (2007).

Contributing author, Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs 2nd ed. General editor, Eric B. Easton. [Chicago]: American Bar Association (2006).

The 'Reasonable Zone of Right Answers': Analytical Feedback on Student Writing, 40 Gonz. L. Rev. 427 (2004/2005).

The President's Column, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 16, no.1, 2 (December 2001).

President's Opening Remarks on the Status of Legal Writing, LWI 2000 Conference, Thursday July 20, 2000. Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 7, vii-ix (2001).

The President's Column. The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 15, no.1, 1 (January 2001).

Reading Critically is the Foundation for Legal Analysis, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 14, no.2, 2 (May 2000).

Using Fruit to Teach Analogy, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 12, no.1. 4 (November 1997).

Dangerous! Our Focus Should Be Analysis Not Formulas Like IRAC, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 10, no.1, 2 (November 1995).

With E. Joan Blum, editors. The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute (1994-2000).

 http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/gionfriddoj.html

ELISABETH KELLER

With Judith B. Tracy. Hidden in Plain Sight: Achieving More Just Results in Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Cases by Re-Examining Supreme Court Precedent, Duke J. 15 Duke J. Gender L. Pol’y 247 (2008). 

Audiotaped Critiques of Written Work, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 14, no.1, 13 (November 1999).

Consensual Relationships and Institutional Policy, 76 Academe: Bulletin of the Association of University Professors 29 (January-February 1990).

Consensual Amorous Relationships Between Faculty and Students: The Constitutional Right to Privacy, 15 Journal of College and University Law 21 (Summer 1988).  [Also appears in Sexual Harassment on Campus: A Legal Compendium, edited by Elsa Kircher Cole. 2nd ed., 81-102. Washington, D.C.: National Association of College and University Attorneys (1990).  An abstract of the article appears in the first edition of this work (1988)].

With Gregory A. Gehlmann, Introductory Comment: A Historical Introduction to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1933, 49 Ohio St. L. J. 329 (Summer 1988).

With Jane Kent Gionfriddo, E. Joan Blum and Judith B. Tracy, editors, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute (1999-2000).

 http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/kellere.html

JUDITH B. TRACY

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 J. 15 Duke J. Gender L. Pol’y 247 (2008).

“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, 297 (2005).

Constructing an Analytical Framework That Captures and Verifies Implicit Reasoning, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 14, no.2, 6 (May 2000).

Technology in the Classroom: Writing Labs, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute 13, no.2, 5 (May 1999).

With Jane Kent Gionfriddo, E. Joan Blum and Elisabeth Keller, editors, The Second Draft: Bulletin of the Legal Writing Institute (1999-2000).

 http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/tracyj.html

"I can't thank you enough for how well LRR&W prepared me for what I do.  It affected my selection for my present position at the Pentagon where I will be required to do a lot of research and writing.  I have been complimented on my legal writing consistently throughout my time in the JAG Corps, and I absolutely credit BC's program for that."
-- Excerpt from from alumnae/i feedback

"LRR&W is a gem in the 1L curriculum because over the course of a year, students gain valuable, practical skills that are essential to professional life as an attorney."
-- Excerpt from alumnae/i feedback