Bryan A. Garner, a noted speaker, writer, and consultant regarding legal writing and drafting, regularly teaches a seminar on Advanced Legal Writing at the law school. He is the editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary, beginning with its seventh edition in 1999, and is the author of Garner’s Modern American Usage (Oxford Univ. Press, 1^st ed. 1998, 2d ed. 2003); The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style (West Group, 1^st ed. 2002, 2^nd ed. 2006); Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges (with Justice Antonin Scalia, West, 2008); and The Elements of Legal Style (Oxford Univ. Press, 1^st ed. 1991, 2^nd ed. 2002); along with many other books. Prof. Garner received an Honorary LL.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 2000; a J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, where he was an Associate Editor of the Texas Law Review; and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980, with Special Honors in Plan II. He is President of LawProse, Inc., the foremost provider of CLE training in legal writing, editing, and drafting. His many professional activities include service on the Board of Directors of the Texas Law Review Association and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of The Copy Editor and The Green Bag, and as a consultant to the Oxford Dictionary Department in Oxford, England. Prof. Garner has received the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award in Plain Legal Language, the 2000 Scribes Book Award for Research and Writing (for Black’s Law Dictionary, 7^th ed.), and the 1998 Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award, as well as many other honors and awards.

Bryan A. Garner taught Advanced Legal Writing in Spring 2011 and is teaching the same course in Spring 2012.