Jessica Sparks

Jessica Sparks is an Academic Counselor, Instructor of Law, and Coordinator of Legal Analysis and Writing at Southern University Law Center. She also serves as a Civil Law Bar Preparation Fellow. Her current teaching responsibilities include Legal Analysis and Writing I and II, Lawyering Process I and II, Family Law, and Torts II.

Education: Jessica earned a Bachelor of Arts in English, Liberal Arts (cum laude) from Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in 2007, and a J.D. from Southern University Law Center in 2011.

Research and Professional Contributions: Sparks previously served as a full-time assistant clinical education professor (2017–2019) in the Disaster Relief clinic, where she authored a disaster relief handbook addressing legal issues arising from natural disasters. Her work focuses on legal writing pedagogy, clinical legal education, and disaster law.

Responsibilities: As Coordinator of Legal Analysis and Writing since 2021, she oversees first-year legal writing course materials and curriculum development. She joined the law center’s adjunct faculty in 2015 and has taught legal writing courses continuously since then.

Affiliations: Sparks is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. No scientific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided text.