Robin Boyle-Laisure is Professor of Legal Writing at St. John’s University School of Law, Queens, NY, since 1994. She teaches first-year legal research and writing and upper-level contract drafting and scholarly writing. She is the Immediate Past Editor in Chief of Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing. She is the co-author of Becoming a Legal Writer (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed. 2025); Persuasive Advocacy in Action (Carolina Academic Press 2025); and author of Teaching Contract Drafting (Edward Elgar 2023) and Taken No More: Protect Your Children Against Traffickers and Cults (Bloomsbury 2025). Prior to entering academia full-time, she was a bankruptcy associate at the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, a law clerk for a bankruptcy judge in the SDNY, and a corporate associate at (the former firm of) Dewey Ballantine. She and her husband, Paul Skip Laisure, a criminal defense attorney, live on Long Island. More information can be found at her website: www.robinboylelaisure.com. She is the recipient of the SJU President’s Faculty Outstanding Achievement Medal.
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