I am interested in teaching students to write using legal texts, and literature about law, as the basis for their writing. As a writing teacher, I like to use electronic media to help students to develop, and sometimes to collaborate on ideas for writing about law. As a practicing attorney, I find myself exploring the connections between law and the writing judges, lawyers, and mediators must do to solve legal problems for litigants and for participants in mediation. I try to lead students to make connections between essays, stories and legal decisions we read and write about and their own lives as participants in a society governed by laws, some unchanging, and some in flux. Wellesley College Courses: The Wire and the American City (Fall 2008) Supreme Court Watchers (Fall 2008) Law, Literature and Film (Spring 2009) ** Clip from presentation by Dr. Maureen Strafford and attorney Alex MacDonald to Law, Literature and Film course (Spring 2004). The topic of the presentation is tort reform and malpractice cases. American Muckrakers: Investigative Journalism from The Jungle to Fast Food Nation (Spring 2009) Contemporary Issues in Law & Society (Fall 2006) Crime and Punishment (Spring 2009) Nixon: An American Icon (Spring 2006) Privacy and the Law (Fall 2007)   **Movie clip can only be viewed from computers on the Wellesley College campus.
	Created by: Amy Barao '01 || Modified by: Tiffany Mok '06 || Date created: August 1, 2001 || Date modified: September 2, 2008 || Maintained by: Lynne Viti || Expires:August 31, 2009