Professor Marcia Ziegler is the director of legal writing. Previously, she was the chair of legal studies at Ivy Tech Community College from 2010 to 2023. From 2000 to 2009, she was a trial court prosecutor in Indiana and in Virginia, where she prosecuted all levels of felonies and cases in juvenile, district and circuit courts as well as some criminal appeals. She has been a visiting professor of lawyering skills at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, and an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville and the Concord School of Law at Purdue Global.
Professor Ziegler holds a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, a bachelor’s degree with highest honors from Hope College in Holland, Mich., and an associate’s degree summa cum laude from Northwestern Michigan College. She was an articles editor of the Dickinson Law Review, a member of the Woolsack Honors Society, and winner of the Kalodner Memorial Award in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. Her research interests are in qualified immunity and police accountability.
Kentucky Personal Injury, (Matthew Bender & Co. 2025).
Mental Health Response to 911 Calls: Defunding the Police, Now With All of the Danger and None of the Protection, 27 U.D.C. L. Rev. (2024).
Persuasive Punctuation: A Silent Advocate in Legal Writing, Kentucky Bench & Bar, September/October 2025
Using an Informal Tone in Legal Writing: An Informal Approach, Kentucky Bench & Bar, March 2025.
A Lifetime of Advocating in Plain English, Kentucky Bench & Bar, September 2024.
Persuasion in Everyday Legal Writing, Kentucky Bench & Bar, March/April 2024
Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Inelegance: The Truly Robotic Nature of AI in Legal Writing, Kentucky Bench & Bar,
September/October 2023.
Don't Zoom In: Virtual Scan of Student’s Residence May Violate Fourth Amendment, in Common Sense, Winter/Spring 2023
Hey Siri: Draft my Contract. May (or Should) Lawyers Use Artificial Intelligence in Legal Writing?, Kentucky Bar Association Bench & Bar, March/April, 2023
Effective Editing: Less is More, Kentucky Bar Association Bench & Bar, September/October
From the Courtroom to the Classroom: Reflecting on the Transition from Practice to Professor, University of Oregon School of Law Proceedings, Spring 2022
Knowing Your Purpose: Key Differences Between Objective and Persuasive Writing and How to Do Both Well, Kentucky Bar Association Bench & Bar, March-April 2022
32 Shots in the Dark: How Local Governments Can Increase Police Accountability When States Refuse To, 74 Mercer L. Rev. 1155 (2023)
We Can And We Should: The Case for Original Research in Legal Academia, Stetson Law Review (forthcoming).
Panelist, ABA Panel on Policing and Health in Underserved Neighborhoods, December, 2021, University of Louisville.
Host, LWI One Day Workshop, December 2021, University of Louisville.
Mental Health and Professional Identity, LWI Biennial Conference, July 2022 (co-presenter), Washington, D.C.
Panelist, The Law Goes Pop, October 2023, University of Louisville.
Presenter: The Case for Original Research in Legal Academia, LWI One-Day Workshop, December 2023.
Host, LWI One-Day Workshop, December 2023, Northern Kentucky University.
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