Mary Beth Beazley has taught at the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University since 1988. She teaches courses in Writing & Analysis, Advanced Legal Writing, and Appellate Advocacy. Prior to teaching at Ohio State, she was Co-director of the Legal Research, Writing and Reasoning Program at Vermont Law School and a Research and Writing Instructor at the University of Toledo College of Law.

Mary Beth is the author of A Practical Guide to Appellate Advocacy (Aspen 2002) and several notable law review articles, including Teaching Students How to ‘Think Like Lawyers': Integrating Socratic Method with the Writing Process, 64 Temple L. Rev. 885 (1991) (with Mary Kate Kearney), The Self-Graded Draft: Teaching Students to Revise Using Guided Self-Critique, 3 Legal Writing 175 (1977), and "Riddikulus!": Tenure-Track Legal Writing Faculty and the Boggart in the Wardrobe, 7 Scribes J. Legal Writing 21 (2000).

Mary Beth has been a member of the ALWD Board, Chair of the Elections Committee, the Scholarship Committee, and a member of the Tenure-Track Committee. She was President of the Legal Writing Institute (1998-2000) and a member of the Board (1996-2004). She has also been a member, Vice-Chair and Chair of the American Bar Association Communications Skills Committee. Additionally, she was a member of the ALWD Citation Oversight Committee in 1999.