Dr. Cecilia Silver

Biography

Cecilia Silver is a Lecturer and the inaugural Director of Legal Research Writing at Yale Law School. She is also a Senior Research Scholar in Law. Cecilia is responsible for developing and leading an innovative legal research writing program, drawing on her extensive teaching and litigation experience. Before joining Yale, she served as an Assistant Professor of Legal Writing at Brooklyn Law School, where she designed the progression of the first-year legal writing curriculum and created the Gateway Lawyering course. From 2013 to 2019, Cecilia was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she played a crucial role in revamping the first-year Legal Practice Skills course. Additionally, Cecilia has experience as an adjunct faculty member at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law while serving as Senior Counsel in the New York City Law Department’s Special Federal Litigation Division. Her legal practice includes significant involvement in complex commercial and intellectual property litigation. Cecilia is dedicated to increasing access to the legal profession and actively engages in mentorship through programs like Yale Law School’s Access to Law School Launchpad Scholars. She regularly presents at legal writing conferences and contributes to legal writing scholarship, focusing on pedagogy and multimodal communication.

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