Kathryn M. Stanchi
Kathy is a Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Berger Award is ALWD’s highest award recognizing scholarship in the field of legal writing. This award recognizes lifetime dedication to and advancement of legal writing scholarship. It celebrates those who have written influential articles, books, or essays or otherwise had a major impact on scholarship, perhaps through making presentations, mentoring, serving on editorial boards of various publications, sponsoring scholarship workshops and fora.
Kathy exemplifies everything this award honors. Here are just a few excerpts from her nominators:
[Kathy’s] lifetime dedication to the advancement of legal writing scholarship is unsurpassed. She is a renowned scholar but, equally important, she has worked tirelessly to build the discipline of LRW scholarship in myriad ways and she has mentored many, many members of the LRW community. Kathy’s work is unique in that it has continuously built connections between the legal writing community and others in the academy, both nationally and internationally.
[Kathy] has published books and articles prolifically for over 20 years. Her four books—including two by Cambridge University Press—are insightful, well written (of course), and provocative in the best ways. Her 20 articles have been published in mainline journals, in specialty journals dedicated to gender and human rights issues, and in legal writing and legal education journals. She reaches wide audiences and is regarded as one of the leading scholars from the legal writing discipline.
[As] the leader of the United States Feminist Judgments project, a project that reimagines and rewrites major judicial opinions from a feminist perspective, [Kathy’s] efforts have had a world-wide impact as the series has expanded internationally. . . . She advocated for the project to include legal writing and clinical professors, and her effort has given over 30 LRW and clinical professors the opportunity to publish with the Cambridge University Press on a project that blurs lines between doctrine, theory, and skills.
We look forward to honoring Kathy at the Awards Ceremony during the ALWD Biennial Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, on Friday, May 31.
Kathy’s colleagues at Temple had the pleasure of surprising Kathy with this award and were kind enough to share pictures of the surprise. From all of us to you, Kathy: Congratulations!
