Megan E. Boyd
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Externship Program- Education
J.D., magna cum laude Walter F. George School of Law 2008
Jesse Mercer Scholar
Member, Mercer Law Review
-Eleventh Circuit Survey EditorStudent Editor, Journal of Southern Legal History
CALI Awards
-Advanced Strategies in Legal Argument
-Poverty LawB.B.A., summa cum laude Mercer University 2005
-Member, Phi Kappa Phi
-Member, Beta Gamma Sigma
-Teaching Assistant, Women and Gender Studies
-Study Abroad, St. Peter’s College, Oxford, England
- Specializations
Civil Procedure
Legal Writing
- Biography
Boyd joined the Georgia State University College of Law in 2014 as an adjunct instructor in the Lawyering: Foundations program. She is now an assistant clinical professor of law, working with Externship Director Kendall Kerew in the College of Law’s Externship Program. Boyd also teaches Civil Procedure: Rules, Professional Responsibility, Advanced Strategies in Legal Argument, and Animal Law.
Before joining the College of Law, Boyd served as a law clerk and worked as a litigator at an Atlanta law firm, where she focused on bad faith and coverage defense and served as the co-chairperson of the firm's appellate practice group. She has represented clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts.
Boyd is the editor of the Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, which publishes cutting edge, first-rate legal writing scholarship. Boyd is also the author of Show, Don’t Tell: Legal Writing for the Real World (co-written with Adam Lamparello). She has written numerous articles on legal writing and animal law and has spoken on these topics at conferences and seminars across the country.
Boyd is pursuing a PhD in English Literature, where her research focuses on the role of law in children's literature, specifically the works of Lewis Carroll.
- Publications
Books
Adam Lamparello & Megan E. Boyd, Show, Don't Tell: Legal Writing for the Real World (2014).
Articles
Megan E. Boyd, From the Editor, 21 Scribes J. Legal Writing iii (2024).
Megan E. Boyd, Book Review, 19 Scribes J. Legal Writing 198 (2020) (reviewing Antonio Gidi & Henry Weihofen, Legal Writing Style (3d ed. 2020)).
Megan E. Boyd, Book Review, Legal Writing Lessons From American Presidents, 15 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric 287 (2018) (reviewing Julie Oseid, Communicators-in-Chief: Lessons in Persuasion From Five Eloquent American Presidents (2017)).
Megan E. Boyd, Fact Statements Part II: More than "Just the Facts", Ga. B.J., Oct. 2017, at 60.
Megan E. Boyd, Fact Statements Part I: More than "Just the Facts", Ga. B. J., Aug. 2017, at 76.
Megan E. Boyd, On Point, 13 Leg. Comm. & Rhetoric: JAWLD 231 (2016) (reviewing Ross Guberman, Point Taken: How to Write Like the World's Best Judges (2015)).
Megan E. Boyd, Blogging for Lawyers 101, Verdict, Winter 2016, at 11.
Megan E. Boyd, More Writing for Judges, Sidebar, Summer 2014, at 7.
Megan E. Boyd, Using Legal Writing and Research Skills to Win at Summary Judgment, Ga. B.J., Apr. 2013, at 60.
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