 Carol
McCrehan Parker
Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Writing
B.S., 1975 Northwestern University
M.A., 1977 Northwestern University
J.D., 1984 University of Illinois
Intellectual Property, Law and Medicine, Legal Process
Parker@libra.law.utk.edu
Professor Parker helps students master the complex skill of legal writing
as director of writing and also as coordinator of UT’s academic support
program. She was director of the writing programs at DePaul University
and Indiana University before joining the UT faculty in 1994. She has
written articles on legal writing and torts and has served as chair of
the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning
and Research. Professor Parker has received the Carden Award for Outstanding
Service to the Institution and the Forrest W. Lacey Award. She has also
worked in private practice in Chicago.
Publications
Books & Chapters:
Building Persuasive Arguments, in Family
Law, Tennessee
Bar Association
Continuing Legal
Education Seminars
(1995).
DePaul Legal
Writing Manual,
(1988-89 & 1989-90).
Articles & Other Publications:
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).
Thinking Like a Reader, Second Draft,
Nov. 1997.
Co-author with Judy Cornett, Bibliography of readings on Law and Narrative,
published in the AALS Newsletter for the Section
on Legal Writing,
Reasoning, and Research,
Spring 1995.
Recent Professional Presentations and Service
Speaker, Plenary Panel Presentation on Site Evaluation of Writing Programs
and the New ABA Standards, Association of Legal Writing Directors Annual
Meeting, Ann Arbor, Mich., July 1998.
“Above the Din: Student Voices in Legal Scholarship,” Speaker, University
of Tulsa Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, Tulsa, March 1998.
“Writing Across the Curriculum: Why Law Students Should Write in Non-Writing
Classes,” Speaker, Biennial Conference of the Association of Legal Writing
Directors, Chicago, July 1997.
“Autonomy, Interdependence and Informed Consent,” Speaker, Centripetals
presentation, UTK, October 1996.
“Applying Modern Communications Theory to Legal Writing: Improving Your
Writing Process,” Speaker, Legal Education Seminar, “The Challenge of
Legal Writing in the Technological Age: The Tradition of the Quill in
the Era of the Keyboard,” Indiana University Law School, Bloomington,
Ind., September 1996.
“Who Cares About Legal Writing?,” Speaker, Conference of the Association
of Legal Writing Directors, San Diego, July 1995; revised version of the
speech published in Proceedings of the
Conference of the Association
of Legal Writing
Directors, West Publishing Co.,
1996.
“Serving Multiple Clients while Preserving Undivided Loyalty,” Speaker,
Ethical Issues in Intellectual Property Law Symposium, Tennessee Intellectual
Property Lawyers Association, November 1995.
“Legal Writing Throughout the Law School Curriculum,” Speaker, UTK College
of Law Faculty Forum, June 1996.
“Teaching Effectively Using In-Class Exercises” and “Classroom Communication:
Dealing with Difficult Students,” Speaker, Legal Writing Institute Conference,
Seattle, Wash., July 1996.
“Legal Writing Workshop,” Speaker, presentation for Tennessee Bar Association
Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville,
March 1995.
“Writing in Large Classes,” Speaker, UTK College of Law Teaching Luncheon
presentation, December 1994.
Immediate past chair, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research,
1998.
Selected Achievements and Affiliations
Chair, AALS Section on Legal Reasoning, Writing, and Research, 1997.
Chair-elect, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research,
1996.
Group facilitator for Legal Writing Institute conference, Chicago, Illinois,
July 1994.
Secretary, Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, American
Association of Law Schools, 1995; Chair, 1997.
Works in Progress
Peck’s Writing
Persuasive Briefs,
textbook for course on written advocacy based on practitioner’s
text, to be published by Little Brown & Company (co-author).
Family Secrets: Does Informed Consent to Genetic Testing Require Knowledge
of Implications Genetic Information May Have Concerning Family Members?
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