Robin A. Boyle

Robin Boyle Laisure, St. John’s University School of Law, Queens, NY:

Professor of Legal Writing; Director of Academic Support Program; Assistant Director of the Writing Center.  B.A., Vassar College, 1980; J.D., Fordham University School of Law, Evening Division, 1989.

Recipient of 2005 Faculty Outstanding Achievement award from the President of St. John’s University.

Prof. Boyle has been teaching Legal Research and Writing to first-year students since 1994.  She additionally teaches Legal Writing Seminar to upper-level students, covering contract drafting and litigation documents, and Contracts to Summer Institute students. 

Her articles, essays, and book chapters appear in both legal and other academic publications.  Recently, her co-written article on the learning styles of law faculty and students was published in the June 2006 issue of the Journal of Legal Education.

Prof. Boyle presents regularly at national and international conferences on topics concerning legal writing, academic support, and learning styles. At the 2008 Association of American Law School annual meeting, she moderated the panel for the Section on Academic Support and presented on the panel for the Section on Teaching Methods. 

She currently serves in the following capacities:

  • AALS Section on Academic Support, Board Member;
  • AALS Section on Academic Support, Co-chair for the Program Committee (January 2009 annual meeting);
  • The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, Member of Editorial Board (July 2008-July 2012);
  • Legal Writing Institute, Member of Board of Directors (July 2008-July 2012);
  • Legal Writing Institute, Scholarship Outreach Committee, Chair (2006-2008);
  • SSRN, Legal Writing Journal, Advisory Board Member (Since 2008).

Prof. Boyle serves as a liaison between the law school and the Bronx School of Law, Government and Justice.  Annually since 1997, she has organized and moderated a Law School Admissions Council program as part of National Minority Recruitment Month.

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