Rebecca C. Flanagan

200 Riverside Ave #330

New Bedford, MA 02746

Email: rcflanagan@alumni.unc.edu

Phone: 919-260-9220

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law

JD, May 2005

Dean’s List

Gressman Pollitt Award for Oral Advocacy, Honorable Mention

Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

MA, Education, May 2002

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

BA, Political Science and English, Magna Cum Laude, Spring 1999

Phi Beta Kappa, Honor’s Scholar graduate

EXPERIENCE

University of Massachusetts School of Law, Ass’t Professor of Law and Director of Teaching and Learning

Methods, July 2013-present

Teach Property to day and evening law students

Teach Academic Skills Lab to incoming law students

o Redesigned course for fall 2014 to focus on practice of academic skills.

Redesigned academic support program to reach all incoming students

o Supervise Staff Director of Academic Support

o Supervise Director of Bar Support

o Hold weekly office hours, open to all students

o Work with Orientation Committee to coordinate ASP sections of orientation

Worked with multiple stakeholders to redesign for-credit bar preparation course

University of Connecticut, Director, Pre-Law Center and Academic Success, March 2009-July 2013

Taught Advanced Legal Methods-Remedies course at UConn Law School as a part of their Academic

Success Program.

Taught Controversial Issues in Sports and Law, Developing a Pre-Professional Identity, and Introduction

to Lawyering courses to pre-law students.

Taught Pre-Law Prep Camp for students and alumni accepted to law school.

Created pre-law program for 16,000 undergraduates at top research university.

Developed professionalism initiative for all UConn students interested in etiquette and professional skills.

Directed the Special Program in Law for high-achieving undergraduates.

Advisor to UConn Mock Trial Team and UConn Law Society.

CLEO (Council on Legal Education Opportunity), Instructor, July 2011

Taught intensive introductory legal skills course to diverse students accepted to ABA-accredited law

schools.

Vermont Law School, Assistant Professor and Director of Academic Success, August 2007-May 2009

Responsible for redesigning Academic Success programs for targeted high-risk, first-year law students.

Delivered disability services in accordance with provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Taught Legal Methods course to second-semester law students at risk for academic dismissal.

Designed week-long pre-orientation program for 32 incoming law students with high-risk indicators.

Taught four workshops each semester on skills for academic success and personal development.

Designed curriculum for new course for advanced bar studies.

Supervised Assistant Director of Academic Success-Bar Studies and the Program Coordinator for

Academic Success-Disability Services.

Supervised six Academic Success Student Mentors working with law students on academic skills.

Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU, Director of Academic Support, July 2006-December 2007

Responsible for designing and implementing ASU’s first Academic Support Program.

Taught intensive Legal Skills course to incoming 1L students predicted to be academically at-risk.

Taught Legal Analysis I course to bottom 10% of spring 1L class.

Counseled students referred by Dean of Student Development due to academic or personal challenges.

Worked individually with 2L and 3L students on academic probation to return to good standing.

Designed bar preparation seminars and workshops for 3L class.

Liaison with Arizona Executive Committee of the Supreme Court for the Bar Exam.

National Bar Association, Instructor--Pre-Law Summer Program, June-August 2007

Designed introduction to law summer program for 10 incoming law students of color.

Taught lessons in first year law school subjects, critical reading, and essay exam writing.

Whittier Law School, Asst. Professor and Asst. Director of Academic Success, August 2005—June 2006

Responsible for overseeing 1L Academic Support curriculum and instruction for twelve classes.

Taught four small-section Academic Support classes for first-year law students.

Supervised four Academic Support instructors.

Work individually with twenty students on academic probation to return to good standing.

Implemented various programs for third-year law students planning to take the bar exam.

North Carolina Department of Justice-Education Division, Fall 2004

Drafted an advisory opinion for the Attorney General’s Office regarding the propriety of teachers assuming

elected positions on local boards of education.

Drafted memoranda, motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment, and prepared exhibits for

administrative hearings on tenure and dismissal cases.

UNC Law School, L.E.A.P. Counselor; Spring and Fall 2004

Directed a group of first-year law students through 5-week program enhancing legal and test-taking ability.

Organized bi-weekly meetings, graded sample exams, and provided written feedback on legal skills.

Johns Hopkins University--Center for Talented Youth, Instructor; Summers 2001, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2011,

2012

Taught intensive, college-level Geopolitics and Model United Nations to talented and gifted students.

Developed curriculum and daily lesson plans for three-week course covering political theory, game theory

in

political conflict and the development of the modern nation-state.

Oversaw and trained teaching assistant.

Publications:

Do Med Schools Do It Better? Improving Law School Admissions by Adopting a Medical School Admissions Model,

Duquesne Law Review, Winter 2015.

The Kids Aren’t Alright: Rethinking the Law Student Skills Deficit, Brigham Young University Journal of Education

and Law, Spring 2015.

Writing Outside the (Law School) Box: Collaborating on Writing Projects, The Learning Curve (Journal of the

AALS Academic Support Section), Winter 2014

Leveraging Academic Support Programs for Innovative Teaching Methods Across the Curriculum in REFORMING

LEGAL EDUCATION: LAW SCHOOLS AT THE CROSSROADS (ed. David M. Moss and Debra Curtis Moss, Information

Age Publishing, 2012).

Partnering for the Benefit of All Students: Simple Ways to Incorporate ASP Techniques Across the Curriculum, The

Law Teacher (Journal of the Institute of Law Teaching and Learning), Fall 2012 (with Professor Louis Schulze).

It’s All About the John Wooden In Us: Using Optimistic Coaching in the Classroom, The Learning Curve (Journal

of the AALS Academic Support Section), Winter 2012.

Academic Success Does What? AALS Teaching Methods 2011 Newsletter, Winter 2011 (with Professor Louis

Schulze).

The Benefit of Integrated Programs Over Non-Integrated Programs: Remedies, The Learning Curve (Journal of the

AALS Academic Support Section), Fall 2009.

“Lucifer Goes to Law School”: Towards Explaining and Minimizing Law Student Peer-to-Peer Harassment and

Intimidation, Washburn Law Journal, Winter 2008.

Works-in-Progress:

Building a Better Law Student: Why Law Schools Need to Collaborate to Improve Legal Education

National Presentations:

Do Med Schools Do It Better? Better Law School Admission By Adopting a Medical School Model, Frontier

Colonial Legal Writing Conference, Dec. 6, 2014.

Pre-Law Students and Professionalism, NAPLA-Boston Connects, Northeastern University, Feb. 14, 2014

Shaping Our Students’ Future: Critical Issues from Admissions to the Practice of Law, AALS Student Services

Section, New York City, Jan. 5, 2014

ASP and The “New Normal”: Creating Value Added ASP Programs, AASE Conference, Las Vegas, May 30, 2013

(with Corie Rosen and Dr. Amy Jarmon)

Developing a Professional Identity: Professionalism for Pre-Professional Students, PLANC Quadrennial Meeting,

Washington, D.C., June 14, 2012.

Come on, Get Happy! Beyond Humanizing: Can – and Should – Law Schools Strive to Graduate Happy Students?

AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 5, 2011 (with Paula Manning, Corie Rosen, and Russell McClain).

Creating and Evaluating Hybrid Doctrinal/ASP Courses: A Case in Remedies, New York Academic Support

Workshop, New York Law School, Spring 2010.

“The Law” and Academic Skills, New York Academic Support Professionals Workshop, Brooklyn Law School,

November 14, 2008.

“Leaps of Faith”: Jumping into Interactive Teaching Methods, Gonzaga Law School, Institute of Law Teaching and

Learning Conference, June 2009 (with Kris Franklin).

Academic Support 101 and 202, St. Louis Law School, Law School Admissions Council, June 2009 (with Dr. Amy

Jarmon).

Advising, Counseling, and Conferencing with Students Before, During, and After Bar Results, Southwestern School

of Law, Law School Admissions Council Bar Passage Conference, September 19, 2008.

“What Did I Do Right, What Did I Do Wrong?” Giving Feedback on Student Exams, University of Maryland

School of Law, Law School Admissions Council New Academic Success Professors Conference, June 13, 2008.

“Lucifer Goes to Law School”: Towards Explaining and Minimizing Law Student Peer-to-Peer Harassment and

Intimidation, Washburn Law School, Humanizing Legal Education Symposium, October 19, 2007.

University Service

Member of Academic Standards and Faculty Development Committees, 2013-present

Member of Orientation Committee, 2013-present

Chair of Academic Support Committee, 2014-present

Professional Memberships:

Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE), Secretary 2014, Program Chair, 2015

American Association of Law Schools (AALS), Chair-Elect 2011, Academic Support Section

New England Consortium of Academic Support Professionals, Treasurer, 2012

NAPLA (Northeast Association of Pre-Law Advisors) and PLANC (Pre-Law Advisors National Council), member

2009-2013

Bar Memberships:

New York State Bar (retired, non-active)