Assistant Professor of Law

B.A., J.D.

Email: kkoch01@uark.edu
Phone: (479) 575-3059

Professor Karen Koch teaches legal research and writing I, II, and III. She brings expertise and experience from a wide variety of educational and professional areas to her teaching. She has been teaching legal research and writing at Hamline University School of Law for the past four years and is the author of A Multidisciplinary Comparison of Rules-Driven Writing: Similarities in Legal Writing, Biology Research Articles, and Computer Programming, 55 J. Legal Educ. 234 (2005).

Professor Koch holds a master's certificate in learning technologies and an arbitrator certification. For the past three years, she has been a legal writing consultant and coach at Leonard, Street & Deinard in Minneapolis, Minn., where she worked with the law firm to develop legal writing programs for second-year law student associates, summer associates, and first- to fourth-year associates.

Before joining the Hamline faculty, Professor Koch served as a judicial clerk to Judge Sharon L. Hall in the 10th Judicial District of Minnesota. She has also worked as a reference attorney for West Publishing and was co-partner in a law office technology consulting firm. Prior to attending law school, she worked at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center doing basic and clinical research on immune cell topics.