Megan E. Boyd

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.