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Melissa Hanson serves as Clinical Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, teaching first-year Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing alongside upper-level courses including Electronic Discovery. She is an active member of the Legal Writing Faculty and Resident Faculty of the Program on Negotiation & Dispute Resolution.
Her academic credentials include a J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law (graduating second in class, Law Review member, Order of the Coif inductee) and a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Hanson specializes in practical legal education with research interests spanning:
- Legal Writing pedagogy
- Employment and Labor Law litigation
- Federal Court procedures
- Electronic Discovery protocols
- Pre-Trial and Federal Litigation strategies
- Negotiation techniques in legal contexts
Her expertise stems from 11 years as a federal law clerk (Magistrate Judge Monte C. Richardson and Judge Brian J. Davis, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida) and 7 years in private practice at Foley & Lardner focusing on labor and employment litigation.
She received Florida State University's university-wide Graduate Teaching Award in 2017, becoming the first Legal Writing professor to earn this distinction.
Professor Hanson previously taught Legal Writing, Federal Courts, Employment Law, and Employment Discrimination at Florida State University College of Law before joining Duke, where she now instructs courses including Pre-Trial Litigation (421), Negotiation for Lawyers (460), Writing: Federal Litigation (789), and Judicial Writing (791).
