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Publications | Presentations | Professional Memberships | Languages
Sonia Bychkov Green serves as associate director of Lawyering Skills. She coordinates the work of faculty teaching the Lawyering Skills sequence, and also teaches Lawyering Skills I.
While at the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Green was awarded a Ford Foundation Scholarship to study at the Hague Academy of International Law. She practiced in insurance and commercial litigation with McCullough, Campbell & Lane, and Bates Meckler Bulger & Tilson. Before joining the John Marshall faculty, she was assistant professor of legal research and writing at IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, and she has taught legal writing as an adjunct instructor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Professor Green, who emigrated from Russia to the United States as a young girl, has examined how legislatures and courts create and define laws about language use. Her article "Language of Lullabies: the Russification and de-Russifaction of the Baltic States" was published in 1997 by the Michigan Journal of International Law, and she now is researching bilingualism and English-only laws in the United States.
Full Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Against All Odds: The Journey of a Group of At-Risk Students to Success on the Bar Exam (co-author, with Professors Julie Spanbauer and Maureen Straub Kordesh) (completed and submitted for publication).
Interstate Intercourse: How Modern Assisted Reproductive Technologies Challenge the Traditional Realm of Conflicts of Law, __ Wisconsin J.L., Gender & Soc'y __ (2009 forthcoming), http://ssrn.com/abstract=1266790.
Sailing Against the Wind: How a Pre-Admission Program Can Prepare At-Risk Students for Success in the Journey Through Law School and Beyond (with Professors Maureen Straub Kordesh and Julie Spanbauer), __ U. Mem. L. Rev. __ (2008 forthcoming), http://ssrn.com/abstract=1260924.
A Montessori Journey: Lessons for the Legal Writing Classroom, 13 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 82 (Winter 2005)
And Now For Something Completely Different: Lessons Learned in Revising the Legal Writing Curriculum, 16(2) The Second Draft 6 (2002) (co-author, with Professor Maureen Straub Kordesh).
Presentations
Legal Writing Institute (LWI) 2008 Biennial Conference: Reality Bites or Does it?: Incorporating Learning Theory and Student Expectations into Problem Design for a First-Year Legal Writing Course (Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, Indiana, July 17, 2008)
The John Marshall Law School: Interstate Intercourse: How Modern Advances in Assisted Reproductive Technologies Challenge Traditional Conflicts of Law Methodologies (Chicago, Illinois, March 13, 2008)
Legal Writing Institute (LWI) 2006 Biennial Conference: A Chance to Succeed: Teaching Legal Writing and Analysis to At-Risk Law Students in a Summer Assessment Program (Atlanta, Georgia, July 2006)
Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) 2005 Biennial Conference: Teaching Lawyers of and for the 21st Century, Ready to Reason? Ready to Write? Teaching Logic and Eloquence to the Blogger Generation, (Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, July 22, 2005).
Professional Memberships
Legal Writing Institute: Currently on the Awards Committee. Served as Co-Chair of the Idea Bank Committee; served on the Website committee.
Association of Legal Writing Directors (member from 2001-2008): Served as Chair of the Listserv Committee; Member and "linkmaster" of the Website committee.
Languages
Russian: Native speaker
Hebrew: Oral and written proficiency
Spanish: Oral and written proficiency
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