Christine Nero Coughlin
Director, Legal Research & Writing Program
Professor of Legal Writing
Phone: 336.758.5504
Email: coughlcn@wfu.edu
Chris Nero Coughlin is the 2008 recipient of the Joseph Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching and a two-time recipient of the Graham Award for Excellence in Teaching Legal Research and Writing. She is the Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program at the Law School, and a core faculty member of the Wake Forest University Program in Bioethics, Health and Society, and the Master of Arts in Bioethics program that will start in 2009-10. In addition, Coughlin will have an appointment in the Translational Science Institute for the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where she frequently lectures and serves on several research ethics committees. Her teaching and scholarship are concentrated in the areas of legal writing, bioethics, and health care law. She is a co-author of the textbook, A Lawyer Writes, and her most recent journal article advocates looking toward medical education pedagogy to supplement the legal education model. When she is not teaching or writing, she spends her time with her husband, Rick, and their four children, Jacob, Jonathan, Addison and Isabelle.
