Teresa Godwin Phelps

Teresa Godwin Phelps is an American author and professor of law. She teaches at the Washington College of Law and the director of the legal rhetoric program. Phelps is the author of the book Shattered Voices.

Phelps completed a bachelor of arts from University of Notre Dame in 1973. She earned a master of arts from the same institution in 1975 before completing a Ph.D. in English in 1980. She earned a M.S.L. from Yale Law School in 1989.

Phelps began teaching legal writing at Notre Dame Law School in 1980. She started at Washington College of Law in 2006 as a professor of law and the director of the legal rhetoric program.

Articles

• Phelps, Teresa Godwin (1986). "The New Legal Rhetoric". Southwestern Law Journal. 40 (4): 1089–1102.

Books

• Phelps, Teresa Godwin (1990). Problems and cases for legal writing (Rev. 2nd ed.). National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Notre Dame Law School. ISBN 978-1-55681-225-5.
• Phelps, Teresa Godwin (2004). Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-0327-1.
• Phelps, Teresa Godwin (2007). Después de la violencia y la opresión: es posible crear justicia (in Spanish). Universidad Iberoamericana. ISBN 9789685123372.