Stephen Horowitz

Background

About Stephen Horowitz

Legal English professor and online curriculum developer for 10+ years with experience and training in both law and applied linguistics/ESL. CURRENT ACTIVITIES *Legal English Professor at Georgetown Law in the 2-Year LLM Program *Ukraine Legal English Initiative (ULEI): https://legalenglish.georgetown.domains/ukraine-legal-english-initiative/*Keio University Law School Guest Lecturer *ABA Afghan Legal Professionals Scholarship & Mentoring Pilot Program *Co-founder and co-host of the USLawEssentials Law & Language Podcast helping foreign-educated lawyers and law students improve their legal English.*Editor of Georgetown Legal English Blog + Legal English Resources page *Long-term active leader in the Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Alumni Association PRESENTATIONS *"Ukraine Legal English Initiative" for Ling, Lit, Trans & Lang Teach in Times of War Conf 6/12/25 *"The Language of Analogy" for Tashkent State University of Law 05/11/2023 *"Some new-ish thoughts on post-pandemic Online Legal English (OLE)" for the International Legal Education Abroad and LLM Administrators' Conference (ILEAC) 2023 hosted by American University Washington College of Law 04/20/2023 (co-presenter Daniel Edelson)*"Online education for foreign-educated LLM students" for the NY Bar Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, 11/16/22 via Zoom (co-presenter Daniel Edelson)*"The Benefits of Extensive Reading & Listening in Studying Law in English" for Tashkent State University of Law, 11/29/2022 *"Supporting International Students in JD and LLM Programs" for Association of Academic Support Educators Conference, 5/24/22 via Zoom (co-presenters Marta Baffy & Daniel Edelson)*"Deconstructing Model Answers with LLM Students" for Academic Support Professionals Workshop at Brooklyn Law School, 4/13/18 *"International Learners and Legal Writing: Pitfalls and Promising Practices," Southeast Association of Law Schools Conference, 8/1/17 (co-presenters Kirsten Schaetzel, Marta Baffy & Catherine Schenker)*"The Power of Noticing in Teaching Legal Writing to LLMs" for the Global Legal Writing Skills Committee of the Legal Writing Institute, 05/01/2017 *"LLM Instructor Workshop Series" for St. John's Law on Assessment, Independent Learning Strategies, Corrective Written Feedback, Critical Reading, Grammar Topics, Syllabus Design and Learning Issues in Law School, 03/2017-05/2019 *"Comprehensible Input for Legal English: Resources, ideas & approaches" for TESOL International Conference, 3/21/17 *"Teaching Reading to Int'l Students with Language Support Needs" GLS, Chicago, 5/15/15