Teresa Godwin Phelps
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OccupationAuthor
KnownforLegal Rhetoric Program Director,author of legal texts, advocacy for peace and human rights
SpouseDigger Phelps
Children3
Teresa Godwin Phelps | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Author |
| Known for | Legal Rhetoric Program Director,author of legal texts, advocacy for peace and human rights |
| Spouse | Digger Phelps |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Grenville Clark Award (1999) Legal Writing Institute's Courage Award (2009) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Notre Dame (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) Yale Law School (M.S.L.) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
| Institutions | University of Notre Dame Law School American University's Washington College of Law |
Teresa Godwin Phelps is an American author and professor of law. She taught at the University of Notre Dame Law School from 1980 until 2006. She also taught at American University's Washington College of Law where she was the Director of the Legal Rhetoric Program from 2006 until she retired in 2019. Phelps is the author of several books and over 30 articles.
Phelps earned a B.A. from University of Notre Dame in 1973. She earned an M.A. from the same institution in 1975 before completing a Ph.D. in English in 1980. She earned a M.S.L. from Yale Law School in 1989.[1]
