Anne E. Ralph, B.A., J.D.
Education
- BA, University of Notre Dame
- JD, University of Virginia School of Law
Biography
Anne Ralph is the Morgan E. Shipman Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
A leading voice in the national conversation on legal writing, Dean Ralph’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and narrative. Her work has appeared in Boston College Law Review, Washington Law Review, Nevada Law Journal, and the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Her article “Narrative-Erasing Procedure” won the 2018 Penny Pether Award for Law and Language Scholarship.
She teaches Civil Procedure, Advanced Legal Writing, Legal Analysis and Writing (LAW) I and II, and Pretrial Litigation. In 2020, she received The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Dean Ralph is a member of the Core Faculty of Ohio State’s Project Narrrative and a Senior Fellow of Election Law at Ohio State. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving legal communication.
Before joining the Moritz faculty, Dean Ralph clerked for Judge Kenneth F. Ripple of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She also practiced with law firms in Washington, D.C. and Columbus, focusing on copyright, civil rights, complex business litigation, and appeals.
Qualified Immunity, Legal Narrative, and the Denial of Knowledge, 65 B.C. L. Rev. 1317 (2024)
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The Story of a Class: Uses of Narrative in Public Interest Class Actions Before Certification, 95 Wash. L. Rev. 259 (2020)
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Narrative-Erasing Procedure, 18 Nev. L.J. 573 (2018)
Links: SSRN
Not the Same Old Story: Using Narrative to Understand and Overcome the Plausibility Pleading Standard, 26 Yale J.L. & Human. 1 (2014)
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