Legal Writing Instructors

Catherine Bramble (2023)

Catherine Bramble is an associate professor at BYU Law School who teaches courses in advanced legal writing. Bramble first joined BYU Law in 2011 as a member of the Rex E. Lee Advocacy faculty teaching first-year legal writing. In 2019, she was appointed the first Director of Academic Development at BYU Law and worked in that capacity until 2022. During her time as director, she taught courses for second- and third-year law students in legal analysis and created a program that resulted in historically high Bar pass rates for BYU Law. For the 2022–23 academic year, Bramble was a visiting assistant professor at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. Bramble graduated summa cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School in 2005 where she served as an editor of the BYU Law Review. Following graduation, Professor Bramble worked for eight years as a practicing attorney. Her research interests focus on legal pedagogy and attorney licensure reform.

Jacqueline Carney (2024)

Jacqueline Carney is an assistant teaching professor in the Legal Writing Program at Notre Dame Law School. Before joining Notre Dame, Carney clerked for Judge Thomas Hardiman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and worked as a litigation and appellate associate for the Washington, D.C., office of Latham & Watkins. She earned her BA, magna cum laude, in international studies from Boston College in 2016, and her JD, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 2021.

Mary O. Jensen (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

Mary O. Jensen has been teaching legal writing at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School for more than 20 years and also teaches online courses at the University of Tulsa College of Law and Concord Law School where she has designed course curricula. She has published in law journals and lectured and presented at legal writing conferences. Jensen maintains an active private law practice and writes fiction (under pseudonyms) when there is time.

Denise Posse-Blanco Lindberg served as a full-time judge in the U.S. state of Utah’s Third District Court (1998–2015) and now serves as a Senior District Judge with the State of Utah Judiciary. After earning a JD, magna cum laude, from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University (BYU), she clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit for Judge Monroe G. McKay. Prior to her judicial appointment, she practiced appellate and healthcare law in Washington, D.C., and Salt Lake City, Utah. A native of Havana, Cuba, Lindberg received her primary and secondary education in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the United States. She earned a BA from BYU and master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Utah. She is a Senior Fellow with BYU’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies. She also serves on the executive committee of the Latin American Consortium for Religious Liberty. Lindberg has participated as speaker or moderator at events throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on topics including judicial independence, the rule of law, mediation, religious freedom, peace-building, and human dignity.

Jane H. Wise (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

Jane Wise served as an Associate Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School from 2017 to January 2022. In that capacity, she founded the Young Scholars Fellowship writing and teaching programs at Oxford. For 20 years she was an adjunct professor at BYU Law School, where she taught legal writing, lawyering skills, and law and literature courses. She helped develop the Law School’s highly ranked legal writing program and developed curricula for the American legal academy, including materials for English-as-a-second-language law students. Jane edited all print publications at BYU Law School for more than 15 years and was editor of its alumni magazine. She is the coeditor of two books and author of three book chapters and numerous articles, films, and presentations. Wise has been a commentator on Public Radio International and National Public Radio, a featured newspaper and magazine columnist, and an essayist for “Music and the Spoken Word,” the Sunday morning radio and television broadcast of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. She holds BA/BFA and JD degrees from the University of Utah. Prior to entering academia, Wise clerked for the Utah Supreme Court and maintained a general practice of law.

Casebook Teaching Professors

Pasquale Annicchino | University of Foggia, Italy (2022, 2025)

I Ketut Ardhana | Universitas Udayana, Bali, Indonesia (2022)

Nicholas Aroney | University of Queensland, Australia (2019, 2025)

Kristina Arriaga | Intrinsic, United States (2018, 2019, 2024)

Carmen Asiaín Pereira | Parliament of Uruguay (2025)

Renae Barker | University of Western Australia (2023, 2024, 2025)

Thomas C. Berg | University of St. Thomas, United States (2025)

Eugene Kheng Boon Tan | Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore (2019)

Zachary R. Calo | Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, United States (2019)

Yaron Catane | Bar Ilan University, Israel (2023, 2024)

Elizabeth A. Clark | ICLRS, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, United States (2025)

Joseph E. David | Sapir Academic College Law School, Israel (2018, 2019)

W. Cole Durham, Jr. | ICLRS, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, United States (2024)

Sir Malcolm Evans | Regent’s Park College, Oxford, England (2025)

Ján Figel’ | Forum for Religious Freedom–Europe (FOREF), Slovakia (2018)

Nazila Ghanea | University of Oxford, England (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

Judge Thomas B. Griffith (retired) | U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2025)

Jeremy Gunn | International University of Rabat, Morocco (2019)

Joel Harrison | University of Sydney Law School, Australia (2018)

Robert Heimberger | Cardiff University, Wales (2019)

Mark Hill KC | Notre Dame London Law Programme, England (2018, 2022, 2023, 2024)

Sagy Watemburg Izraeli | Åbo Akademi University, Finland; Bar Ilan University, Israel (2025)

David Kirkham | Brigham Young University, United States (2018)

Kishan Manocha (deceased) | OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (2018, 2019)

Paul Martens | Baylor University, United States (2022, 2023, 2024)

David Moore | J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, United States (2022)

Jaclyn Neo | National University of Singapore (2019)

Ewelina Ochab | International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute; Coalition for Genocide Response, England (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

Preeti Oza | University of the Pacific, United States (2022)

Fatih Öztürk | Istanbul University, Turkey (2022)

Eugenia Relaño Pastor | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany (2019)

Peter Petkoff | Regent’s Park College, Oxford, England (2018, 2025)

Andrea Pin | University of Padua, Italy (2022, 2023, 2024)

Thiago Alves Pinto | University of Oxford, England (2022, 2025)

Dorjana Bojanovska Popovska | Central European University Democracy Institute, Hungary (2024, 2025)

Judge Ann Power-Forde | European Court of Human Rights (2018)

Frank S. Ravitch | Michigan State University College of Law, United States (2025)

Brett G. Scharffs | ICLRS, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, United States (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

Haim Shapira | Bar Ilan University, Israel (2018, 2019)

Dicky Sofjan | Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia (2018, 2022, 2023, 2024)

Michalyn Steele | J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, United States (2024)

Brandon Reece Taylorian | University of Central Lancashire, England (2025)

Jeroen Temperman | Erasmus University, the Netherlands (2025)

Renáta Uitz | University of London, England (2018, 2024, 2025)

Marco Ventura | University of Siena, Italy (2022, 2025)

Dmytro Vovk | Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, United States (2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

John W. (Jack) Welch | J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, United States (2025)

Paul Yowell | University of Oxford, England (2018)