Suzanne Rowe

Director, Legal Research and Writing
Associate Professor of Law

Suzanne Rowe is the director of Oregon Law's Legal Research and Writing Program and a 2008-2010 Luvaas Faculty Fellow. She is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Stone Scholar. Professor Rowe clerked for the Honorable Rudi M. Brewster in the Southern District of California and then practiced law as a tax associate in Washington, D.C., before joining the faculty at Oregon. She previously taught at the University of San Diego and Florida State University.

Professor Rowe is the author of five books on legal research, and she is the editor of the Legal Research Series published by Carolina Academic Press.

She has held leadership positions with the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research; the Association of Legal Writing Directors; and the Legal Writing Institute. She is currently on the LWI Board of Directors. She is the 2009-2011 chair of the Communication Skills Committee of the American Bar Association.

Professor Rowe writes a monthly column, The Legal Writer, in the Oregon State Bar Bulletin, which takes a fresh look at writing problems.