Lindsey Kurtz
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Adjunct Professor of Law, LL.M. Legal Writing Location: University Park
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814-865-7391About Kurtz
Lindsey Kurtz is Director of Legal English Certificate Programs and Language Specialist in the Master of Laws Program at Penn State Law. Prior to joining Penn State Law, she worked at Peking University School of Transnational Law as Director of the Center for Academic Legal English. In both her teaching and scholarship, Dr. Kurtz seeks to understand how concepts from linguistic theories can assist multilingual students in their study of U.S. law. In doing so, she draws from diverse linguistic and pedagogical theories, including cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and Vygotskian sociocultural theory. Additionally, Dr. Kurtz is interested in English for Specific Purposes, dynamic assessment, and technology-assisted language learning. She has previously taught English and lived in China, Japan, and Mexico.
Education
Ph.D., Penn State University
M.A., Iowa State University
B.A., Loras College
Course
LL.M. Legal Analysis, Writing and Research
Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law are reunifying to operate as Penn State University’s single law school, which will be known as Penn State Dickinson Law. While ABA approval for the reunification is pending, both schools are currently fully accredited. We submitted an application for acquiescence to operate as a single law school in July 2024 and plan to enroll a unified class in Fall 2025. Once reunification is complete, the separate faculties of each school will be members of the reunified Penn State Dickinson Law faculty.