MACON – Mercer Law School Professor Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb has become named the 2018 recipient of the Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Communication through the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI). The selection committee recognized and unanimously recommended McMurtry-Chubb’s article, “The Rhetoric of Race, Redemption, and Will Contests: Inheritance as Reparations in John Grisham’s Sycamore Row,” published in Vol. 48 of the Memphis Law Review in 2018.
One nominator wrote that this text efficaciously “juxtapose[s] will contests, property, and inheritance rights against the complicated and frequently ‘difficult to have’ discussion about race in America.” The nominator also stated, “Teri’s specific fashion of mixing genres in her criminal conversation disrupts capacity perceptions of criminal writing professors while keeping our field as a recognized subject worth looking at.”
McMurtry-Chubb teaches and writes within the regions of discourse analysis, genre analysis, and legal records. Likewise, she is the author of Legal Writing within the Disciplines: A Guide to Legal Writing Mastery, published through Carolina Academic Press in 2012. She has lectured nationally on a structural place of business discrimination, disproportionate sentencing for African Americans, racial and gender inequalities in submit-secondary schooling, and African diasporic cultural bureaucracy. During these 12 months, she might be a Visiting Distinguished Professor of Law at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, coaching criminal writing and a seminar on Critical Race Feminism.
The Phelps Award honors and attracts attention to personal works of superb scholarship unique to the legal writing discipline, which might be posted in any calendar year. The award is meant to set aspirational requirements for others writing within the area. In making the award, the selection committee and the LWI Board consciousness solely on whether an individual work is particular to the size of prison writing and whether it contributes to the site.
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