Christopher Trudeau Email & Phone Number

Dewitt, Mi, Us

Detroit, Michigan, Us

This role allows me to bring my unique legal drafting and legal teaching skills back to future lawyers of my home state: Michigan. As I have been for the past 18 years, I'll be teaching legal writing, research, and analysis to first-year law schools in the schools Applied Legal & Analysis program. I'll also be teaching Property 1 & 2, and I look forward to teaching Legal Drafting and Health Law in future years. This move back to Michigan, will also allow me to focus my research and community services efforts on helping to create more accessible healthcare and clinical research opportunities for Michigander's.

Little Rock, Arkansas, Us

Courses taught: Research, Writing, and Analysis I & II; Contract DraftingMy responsibilities at the UALR Bowen School of Law are engaging in high-quality teaching and scholarship and developing interprofessional collaborative activities with UAMS. Regarding teaching, in the 2017-2018 academic year, I taught Research, Writing, and Analysis I & II to first-year law students, and I taught Drafting Contracts to upper-level law students. Regarding scholarship, I collaboratively researched and published two articles with UAMS faculty members, and I conducted an international study on the public’s perception of legal communication with a co-author from the U.K. The article is currently in press and will be published later in 2018.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Courses taught: Law & Medicine; Introduction to Health Literacy, Interprofessional Education Modules (related to health law and health literacy). My role at UAMS has two parts: (1) as an Associate Professor of Medical Humanities & Bioethics, teaching law and health electives to students in the College of Medicine and the College of Physician Assistant Studies, and (2) using my expertise in health literacy, health law, and plain language to aid the development of UAMS’s Center for Health Literacy.At the Center for Health Literacy, I am responsible for the Center’s health policy activities, and I play a significant role in the Center’s programming and research activities. Specifically, I conduct empirical, grant-funded research on improving patient understanding of informed consent; I develop clear health documents for hospitals, health systems, and government organizations that contract with the Center; and I engage in consulting efforts with community partners to support the Center’s program development activities.I also work collaboratively with UAMS’s Interprofessional Education (IPE) Program, where I became a certified IPE educator in Fall 2017. I teach clear health communication modules as part of this program. Also, I developed, created, and implemented an interprofessional medical malpractice mock trial that included law students and students from many of the health professions at UAMS.

Lansing, Michigan, Us

Courses taught: Property I & II, Torts I, Research & Writing, Advanced Writing, Scholarly Writing (online & live), and Health Law (for law students and medical students).Duties and ResponsibilitiesI primarily taught Legal Writing, Advanced Legal Writing, Property, and Torts during my tenure. Due to my extensive experience teaching logic and reasoning in legal writing courses, I've developed a unique teaching style that incorporates active-learning principles, such as team-based learning, flipped learning, scaffolding, and using formative and summative assessments. Additionally, I taught health literacy and informed consent courses for WMU’s Homer Stryker School of Medicine during my last two years at WMU Cooley. Outside of teaching, I held leadership roles as the Faculty Advisor for both scholarly publications, I helped developed and ran numerous WMU events, and I was the Vice-Chair of the Faculty Scholarship Committee.

Bloomfield Hills, Mi, Us

I was a labor and employment attorney at Plunkett & Cooney, P.C., in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A large part of my practice was focused on assisting institutional clients in defending against employment discrimination claims, as well as issues associated with the American with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Also, while practicing, I began to hone my drafting skills by drafting (and redrafting) employment contracts, policy manuals, and other such documents.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)