Resume

• 1994

  Michigan Court of Appeals

  Tampa/St. Petersburg

  Florida Area

  Teach: Evidence

  Research & Writing

  Advocacy

  Appellate Advocacy

  Advanced Writing

  Moot Court.

  Professor

  Western Michigan University Cooley Law School

  Oversaw six-member legal writing faculty

  coordinating lesson plans and research and writing assignments

  training new faculty and facilitating school-wide appellate advocacy competition. Collaborated with faculty to facilitate cross-curricular writing assignments.

  Ave Maria School of Law

  Assistant Professor of Research

  Writing and Advocacy

  Taught year-long legal research

  writing and advocacy course to first year law students

  and one-semester litigation writing course to upper-class students. Consistently received outstanding student and administrative evaluations for teaching.

  Ave Maria School of Law

  Director of Academic Support

  Created and facilitated the Academic Support Program for the inaugural class at the law school under the supervision of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Identified at-risk students and developed and implemented a practical skills program to ensure their academic success.

  Ave Maria School of Law

  WMU Cooley Law School

  Tampa Bay Campus

  Teach Research & Writing

  Appellate Advocacy/Moot Court

  Advanced Writing

  Associate Professor

  Michigan Court of Appeals

  Thomas M. Cooley Law School

  Teach introductory legal research and writing course.

  Visiting Professor

  Tampa/St. Petersburg

  Florida Area

  Solo appellate research and brief writing practice. Advised clients on post-judgment and appellate strategy; comprehensive research; and the production of clear

  concisely written appellate briefs.

  Barbara A. Kalinowski

  PLLC

  State Bar of Michigan Character and Fitness Committee

  Member

  Member

  State Bar of Michigan Publications and Website Advisory Committee

  Hillsborough County Bar Association

• 1990

  English

  Polish

  J.D.

  Law

• 1986

  BA

  History

• Barbara Anna Kalinowski

  Associate Professor | Thomas M. Cooley Law School

  Professor Barbara Kalinowski joined the full-time faculty at Cooley Law School in 2014. She previously served as a Visiting Professor

  teaching Research and Writing and Appellate Advocacy (Moot Court)

  and as an Adjunct Professor

  teaching Advanced Writing.

  Legal Writing

  Legal Research

  Moot Court

  Advocacy

  Evidence

  Logic Ab Initio: a Functional Approach to Improve Law Students' Critical Thinking Skills

  Abstract\nLaw professors are increasingly frustrated by students’ lack of critical-thinking skills. Students entering law school are

  generally speaking

  less academically prepared than previous cohorts due to educational

  technological

  and social trends that discourage the type of “deep thinking” necessary for law-school success. By introducing basic

  “functional” logic training early on in law school and reinforcing logic principles throughout the curriculum

  however

  legal educators can not only improve the classroom learning dynamic

  but actually help students strengthen the neurological circuitry responsible for critical thinking. Research on brain plasticity suggests that replacing students’ heuristic thinking habits with functional logic processes — and reinforcing them throughout the curriculum — actually builds and strengthens the brain’s neural connections related to reasoning and analysis. In other words

  teaching logic could begin to remediate critical-thinking deficits.\n\nThis article bridges the body of scholarly works promoting the use of logic principles in law school classes and scholarship discussing the “crisis” in legal education caused by real or perceived deficits in students’ critical thinking skills. It examines some of the reasons for the trend away from “deep thinking

  ” explaining how that trend manifests itself in the law school classroom. And by describing law-school competencies enhanced by functional logic training

  it demonstrates that the effects of that trend can be alleviated — at least in part — by integrating logic throughout the law-school curriculum.

  Logic Ab Initio: a Functional Approach to Improve Law Students' Critical Thinking Skills

  Lawyers and Prepositional Phrases: What's Of Got to Do With It?

  Barbara A.

  Kalinowski

  Western Michigan University Cooley Law School

  Ave Maria School of Law

  Barbara A. Kalinowski

  PLLC

  WMU Cooley Law School