Carol McCrehan Parker

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law
B.S., 1975 Northwestern University
M.A., 1977 Northwestern University
J.D., 1984 University of Illinois
Location: Room 278
Phone Number: 865-974-6700
Email: cparker4@utk.edu
Courses Taught: Intellectual Property, Law and Medicine, Legal Process, Torts, Health Care Policy, Copyright Law
Additional Information: Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Biography

Publications of Carol McCrehan Parker

Professor Parker has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs since 2008. She joined the faculty in 1994 as Director of Legal Writing. Prior to coming to Tennessee, she taught in and directed legal writing programs at Indiana University and DePaul University and practiced law with Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago. She currently teaches Legal Process, Torts, and Health Care Policy, and has also taught Intellectual Property, Copyright Law, and Law and Medicine and has served as coordinator of the College of Law’s academic support program.. She has written articles on legal writing, legal education, and torts and is a co-author of a book on Tennessee legal research. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and has served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, and as a member of the board of directors of the Legal Writing Institute. She received the Carden Award for Outstanding Service to the Institution in 1996, 2002, and 2009 and the Forest W. Lacey Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Moot Court Program in 1998 and 2010.

Publications

Biography of Carol McCrehan Parker

Books

Tennessee Legal Research, (Carolina Press 2007) (coauthored with Sibyl Marshall) & and accompanying teacher’s manual (Carolina Press 2008).

Articles

The Signature Pedagogy of Legal Writing, 16 Leg. Writing 463 (2010).

Plenary I: Scholarship (Nov. 6, 2009) in Symposium, The Legal Writing Institute: Celebrating 25 Years of Teaching and Scholarship, 61 Mercer L. Rev. 782, 792 (2010)(with Marilyn R. Walter and M.H. Sam Jacobson – transcript of panel presentation.).

What Will I Do on Monday – and Why Aren’t We Doing It Already?: Reflecting on the Value of Expressive Writing in the Law School Curriculum, 15 Leg. Writing 287 (2009).

Violence on Campus: Practical Recommendations for Legal Educators, 33 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 443 (2008)((coauthored with Helen Smith and Sandra P. Thomas), .

Writing is Everybody’s Business: Theoretical and Practical Justifications for Teaching Writing Across the Law School Curriculum, 12 Leg. Writing 175 (2006)(part of a symposium issue entitled, "Teaching Writing and Teaching Doctrine: A Symbiotic Relationship?").

A Liberal Education in Law: Engaging the Legal Imagination Through Research and Writing Beyond the Curriculum, 1 ALWD 129 (2002).

Camping Trips and Family Trees: Must Tennessee Physicians Warn Their Patients’ Relatives of Genetic Risks?, 65 Tenn. L. Rev. 585 (1998).

Writing Throughout the Curriculum: Why Law Schools Need It and How to Achieve It, 76 Neb L. Rev. , 561 (1997).

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