Assistant Professor of Law

B.A., J.D.

Email: ksampson@uark.edu
Phone: (479) 575-2928
 

Professor Kathryn Sampson joined the School of Law's Legal Research & Writing faculty in 1993 after teaching in a similar capacity at Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Ga., from 1990 to 1993. Prior to that, she clerked for the Second Judicial District of Iowa from 1989 to 1990. She is a 1989 graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law and earned her B.A. in English and journalism in 1982 from University of Northern Iowa.

Professor Sampson has been teaching composition, rhetoric, and analysis since 1980 in various capacities - as a student writing specialist, language arts teacher, and faculty member in two research and writing programs. Since 1993, she has coached the Arkansas team for the National Moot Court Competition sponsored by the Bar of the City of New York and, from 2000 to 2007, she coached the Jessup International Law Moot Court team. She teaches Legal Research & Writing, insurance law, and short courses in guardianship and insurance subrogation.

Since 1999, Professor Sampson has served as chair or co-chair of the University of Arkansas Distinguished Lectures Committee, and as the Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished Lectures representative on that committee. In these capacities, she has been involved in planning campus visits from nationally and internationally known speakers, including Salman Rushdie, Ehud Barak, James Earl Jones, Robert Redford, Buzz Aldrin, Isabel Allende, W. S. Merwin, and Howard Zinn.

Professor Sampson has published several articles on topics ranging from will contest litigation to ethics in legal research and writing. Her most recent publication is "The Legal News Portfolio: Building Professionalism through Student Engagement in 'Off-Topic' Course Content," Vol. 15, No. 3, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing (Spring 2007).

Links

Professor Sampson's Web site