Ann Sinsheimer

Ann Sinsheimer has extensive experience as a teacher and consultant of technical and legal writing, and of English as a second language. She has served as a lecturer, tutor, and consultant at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan's English Language Institute, teaching, among other courses, a summer program for international students entering the University of Michigan's Law School. She has also taught business English and technical communication to Japanese business executives both in the United States and in Japan. Before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in the United Kingdom.

Professor Sinsheimer co-authored with Professor Brostoff the textbook, Legal English: An Introduction to the Legal Language and Culture of the U.S. and has published scholarly articles on legal writing as a second language and other communication issues, and is co-author of a chapter in Sources of Noice in Collaborative Design.

Currently Teaching

• Legal Analysis and Writing (Fall 08 & Spring 09)

Selected Publications

Books:

• Teresa Brostoff & Ann Sinsheimer, LEGAL ENGLISH:  AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LEGAL LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF THE UNITED STATES (2000).

Scholarly Articles:

• Ann Sinsheimer, 'English Only' and Our Struggle to Understand the Concept of Language, 25 Language & Communication 61 (2005).
• Ann Sinsheimer, The Ten Commandments as Secular Historic Artifact or Sacred Religious Text:  Using Modrovich v. Allegheny County to Illustrate How Words Create Reality, 5 J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class (2005).
• Ann Sinsheimer, Individualized Instruction in Teaching the Law School Curriculum (Steven Friedland & Gerald F. Hess eds., Carolina Press 2004).
• T. Brostoff, M. Ford, & A. Sinsheimer, Practice and Procedure: English for Lawyers: A Preparatory Course for International Lawyers,, 7 Berkeley Women's L.J. 137 (2001).
• T. Brostoff, M. Ford, & A. Sinsheimer, English for Lawyers, 7 Legal Writing:  The J. Legal Writing Inst. 137 (2001).
• C. Feak, S. Reinhart, & A. Sinsheimer, A Preliminary Analysis of Law Review Notes, 19 English for Specific Purposes 19 (2000).  Horowitz Prize winner for the best article in the journal during 2000. 

Essays and Other Writing:

• Ann Sinsheimer, “Tradition and Change in Legal English by Christopher Williams” (Book review) Language in Society (2007), 36:473-474, Cambridge University Press.