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Emily B. Zimmerman
Associate Professor of Law
Email: Emily.B.Zimmerman@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4713
Office: Earle
Mack School of Law, Room 231
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Education
J.D., Yale
Law School
A.B., summa cum laude, Bryn Mawr College
Emily Zimmerman is an experienced law professor with expertise
in legal methods and criminal procedure.
Professor Zimmerman came to Drexel from Villanova University
School of Law, where she was an associate professor of legal
writing. As an academic visitor at the School of Law of the City
University of Hong Kong, she was course leader for a legal writing
and drafting course in the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws program.
She has given presentations at numerous regional, national and
international conferences, including a seminar on teaching legal
methods in Pidgirtsi, Ukraine for the American Bar Association
Rule of Law Initiative, a conference on the pedagogy of legal
writing in Nairobi, Kenya and a conference on global legal skills
in Monterrey, Mexico.
Professor Zimmerman has served on the Professional Development
Committee of the Legal Writing Institute, on the board of Academics
Promoting the Pedagogy of Effective Advocacy in Law and as co-editor
of the Legal Writing Journal of the Social Science Research Network.
Before teaching, Professor
Zimmerman was the chief of the Civil and Exceptional Litigation
Unit for the Philadelphia District
Attorney’s Office, where she had also supervised the Municipal
Court Unit and worked as a trial prosecutor.
Her publications focus
on the teaching of legal writing and legal methods. Published
articles include “Toto, I Don’t
Think We’re in Practice Anymore: Making the Transition
from Editing as a Practitioner to Giving Feedback as a Legal
Writing Professor,” in Perspectives, and “The Proverbial
Tree Falling in the Legal Writing Forest: Ensuring that Students
Receive and Read Our Feedback on Their Final Assignments,” in Perspectives.
Professor Zimmerman clerked in the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit after graduating from Yale Law School.
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