Ellen B. Zweibel

Professor and Co-Founding Director, uOttawa Legal Writing Academy

Ellen B. Zweibel, Professor and Co-Founding Director of the Legal Writing Academy at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Ellen has a LL.M Tax Law ( Denver University, 1981); J.D., cum laude ( Booklyn Law School,1974) and B.A. English, cum laude ( SUNY at Stony Brook,1970). She received the 2013 Desire2Learn Innovation in Teaching Award; 2011 University of Ottawa Excellence in Education Prize and the 2007 Sharing the Flame Award: Recognizing Excellence in Learning Award by the Canadian Council of Learning- Health and Learning category. Ellen exercises her left-brain teaching Introduction to Income Tax and her right-brain directing and teaching a required experiential learning program for all first year law students, Dispute Resolution and Professional Responsibility. The Writing Academy occupies both her left and right brain continuously.