Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court – Editors

Linda Berger
Linda Berger is Family Foundation Professor of Law at UNLV Boyd School of Law. Her research, writing, and teaching focus on the study and practice of legal rhetoric. Professor Berger will serve as President of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) from 2014-16. Professor Berger was a founder and the long-time editor of Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD; she initiated and continues to co-edit the Law & Rhetoric e-Journal on SSRN’s Legal Scholarship Network. Professor Berger’s articles blend persuasion science with rhetorical analysis, applying theory and research results from analogy, metaphor, and narrative studies to examine persuasive briefs and judicial opinions.
Bridget Crawford
Bridget Crawford is a Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law. She teaches courses in Feminist Legal Theory; Federal Income Taxation; and Wills, Trusts and Estates. She is a past chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education and an editor of the Feminist Law Professors blog (feministlawprofessors.com). Professor Crawford joined the academy in 2003, after more than six years of law practice at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
Kathy Stanchi
Kathy Stanchi is the E.L. Cord Professor of Law at the UNLV Boyd School of Law. She is the author of numerous articles on persuasion, rhetoric, feminist theory and writing, as well as two books on writing and persuasion, Legal Persuasion: A Rhetorical Approach to the Science (with Linda Berger) and Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing (with Richard Neumann and Ellie Margolis). Professor Stanchi has lectured nationally and internationally, and in 2014, she was a Fulbright Specialist at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.