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Andrea McArdle, Professor and Director of Legal Writing, holds a J.D.
from NYU School of Law, an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, an M.A. in
literature from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and
is currently working on a dissertation,
Jersey Justice and Discourses of Power: Consumer Rights, Good-Mother
Citizenship, and the Cold War, toward a Ph.D. in American Studies at NYU
Graduate School of Arts & Science. As
Director of Legal Writing, she has shaped the development of the Law School’s
writing-intensive curriculum and is the LawSchool’s
liaison to the CUNY-wide Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the
Disciplines Initiative.
Before
joining the Law School faculty, she taught in the
Lawyering Program at the NYU School of Law. As Faculty
Coordinator, she guided development of NYU’s legal writing curriculum and, as
Coordinator of the NYU Lawyering Theory Workshop, developed an
interdisciplinary faculty workshop series to provide a framework for thinking
about how lawyers work. She has been a Senior Assistant County Attorney for WestchesterCounty and Counsel to the Mount Vernon
Urban Renewal Agency. She also worked in a community-based law practice,
concentrating on criminal defense work and general litigation.
Professor McArdle writes at the intersection of
sociolegal and cultural studies, law and literature, and pedagogy. She has
co-edited, and is a contributor to, the anthologies Uniform Behavior: Police Localism and National Politics (Palgrave
Macmillan 2006) and Zero Tolerance:
Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City (NYU Press,
2001).
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