Tessa L. Dysart

Assistant Director of Legal Writing

Assistant Director of Legal Writing & Associate Clinical Professor of Law

2017 - Current

Associate Clinical Professor of Law, July 2017–Present

Assistant Professor

Regent University School of Law, Virginia Beach, Virginia

2012 - 2017

Adjunct Professor, January 2011–December 2011

Associate Counsel

AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE, Washington, D.C.; Virginia Beach, Virginia

2009 - 2012

Counsel

UNITED STATES SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, Washington, D.C.

2008 - 2009

Counsel

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, OFFICE OF LEGAL POLICY, Washington, D.C.

2006 - 2008

Judicial Clerk to Hon. Dennis W. Shedd

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, Columbia, South Carolina

2005 - 2006

Harvard Law School

J.D. (2005)

2002 - 2005

Activities: Co-managing Editor (2004–2005), Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy

Willamette University

B.A. (2001) | Majors: History & Russian

Honors: magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa

Oregon State Bar

Member (inactive)

Current

Muscogee (Creek) Nation

TRIBAL MEMBERSHIP

Current

District of Columbia Bar

Member

Current

Moot Court Committee, Legal Writing Institute

Committee Member

2018 - Current

Nominations Committee, AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research

Committee Member

2018 - Current

Appellate Advocacy Blog (http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/appellate_advocacy/ )

Managing Editor

2016 - Current