Faculty of Legal Writing Program

Leadership

Professor Heidi Gilchrist
Professor Gilchrist joined the faculty in fall 2015. She is a Professor of Legal Writing, is the Co-Director of Legal Research and Writing, and teaches Gateway to Lawyering and National Security Law. Professor Gilchrist's scholarship focuses on national security law issues and the intersection of national security with civil rights and human rights law. In addition to law review articles, her commentary has been published in The Washington Post, Miami Herald, Just Security, and Jurist, among others. Previously, she served in the federal government as an analyst at the CIA and subsequently as a liaison to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York City. She practiced law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, where she focused on securities law and international law. She clerked in the S.D.N.Y. for the Honorable Robert P. Patterson. Professor Gilchrist received her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Kent Scholar and an Articles/Submissions Editor at the Journal of Transnational Law. After graduating from Yale, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study Arabic literature and Islamic law in Damascus, Syria. She is proficient in Arabic, Italian, and French.

Professor Maria Termini
Professor Termini joined the Brooklyn Law School faculty in the fall of 2014. She is a Professor of Legal Writing, is the Co-Director of Legal Research and Writing, and also teaches in the Law School’s externship program. Her scholarship interests relate to legal education pedagogy with a focus on helping students develop the legal reasoning skills needed for effective legal writing and advocacy. Before joining the Law School faculty, Professor Termini was a litigator, practicing in federal and state court. She worked in the Appeals Division of the New York City Housing Authority and as a litigation associate at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. While in law school, Professor Termini was a member of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. Before practicing law, she taught high school mathematics and was an adjunct professor of education. Professor Termini holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, an M.A. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Mississippi, and a B.A. in mathematics from Smith College.