Welcome to Professor Michael Smith
This fall, Marquette University Law School is fortunate to have Professor Michael R. Smith as a Robert E. Boden Visiting Professor of Law. Professor Smith is visiting from the University of Wyoming College of Law, where he is the Winston S. Howard Distinguished Professor of Law and the Director of Legal Writing. Professor Smith’s work in legal writing and written advocacy is nationally renowned. He has published a book on persuasive legal writing entitled Advanced Legal Writing: Theories and Strategies in Persuasive Writing (Aspen 2002). This book has received such interest and acclaim that the release of the second edition was the impetus for a 2008 conference, A Dialogue About Persuasion in Legal Writing & Lawyering, which was held at Rutgers Law School-Camden.