COL Bldg. Room # 342A

Wednesdays - 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Thursdays (Online) - 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Program Assistant is Daexia Modeste, Phone:  (407) 254-3297, daexia.modeste@famu.edu

LAW 5793-7429-308 Legal Research and Writing II - Tu.Th. @ 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
LAW 5793-7430-309 Legal Research and Writing II - Tu.Th. @ 7:40 pm - 9:10 pm

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Professor Ali Friedberg Tal-mason teaches Legal Research and Writing at FAMU College of Law. She is a Florida Bar member attorney with a practice background in appellate law, legal research and writing, and consumer arbitration, and extensive experience teaching university writing courses. Professor Tal-mason received her J.D. from the University of Miami, where she was an editor of the University of Miami Inter-American Law Review. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies, with an interdisciplinary focus in legal history and postcolonial literature, at Florida Atlantic University. Her Ph.D. dissertation is what she coins a "critical legal biography" of nineteenth-century author, educator, and activist, Nancy Gardner Prince (1799-1859), an African American woman who published two anti-slavery texts in Boston in the 1840s and 1850s after living abroad in Russia and Jamaica.

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• Legal Research and Writing Pedagogy
  
  
• US Legal History, Topics: Labor, Migration, Civil and Political Rights, Citizenship
  
  
• US Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies, Topics: African American Literature and Print Culture, Multi-ethnic Literature, Travel Literature
  
  
• US Nineteenth-Century Research and Archival Studies
  

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• Instructor, Legal Research & Writing
  Florida A&M University College of Law
  
  
• Graduate Instructor, English
  Florida Atlantic University
  
  
• Appellate and Legal Drafting Attorney
  Sole Practitioner
  
  
• Arbitrator
  Council of Better Business Bureaus
  
  
• Judicial Law Clerk
  Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal, Hon. W.M. Stevenson
  
  
• Judicial Law Clerk
  US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Hon. J.C. Paine, Hon. L.R. Johnson
  
  
• Legal Intern
  US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Hon. D.L. Graham

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•  "Nancy Prince: Strategic (Re)mappings through Travel and Text." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 38, no. 2 (2023): 507-523. DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2023.2221948.
  
  
• "The Year in Conferences—2020." ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 67, no. 1 (2021): 279-348. DOI: 10.1353/esq.2021.0011.
  
  
• "Voyage to the Marvelous: A Traveler’s Guide to The Kingdom of This World." The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 7, no. 1 (2020): 50-68. DOI:10.1017/pli.2019.31.
  
  
• "Reconsidering the Doctrine of Discovery: Spanish Land Acquisition in Mexico (1521-1821)." Wisconsin International Law Journal, 17, no. 1 (1999): 87-108.

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Recent Awards:

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to attend NEH Summer Institute, "Reconstructing the Black Archive: South Carolina as Case Study, 1739-1895," co-sponsored by Clemson and Furman Universities, Jun-Jul 2023.

Patricia M. Courtenay Doctoral Fellowship, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University, 2022.

Recent Conference and Symposium Presentations:

“Meeting Their Needs: Global Accessibility in the Classroom.” Co-presented with FAMU Law LRW Cohort: D. Cespedes, P. Harris, C. Harris-Starks, and T. Walker. Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop at Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, virtually, Dec 8, 2023.

“We’re Going Back to the Future…Preparing Students for Next Generation Lawyering.” Co-presented with FAMU Law LRW Cohort: D. Cespedes, P. Harris, C. Harris-Starks, and T. Walker. Legal Writing Institute One-day Workshop at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, virtually, Dec 7, 2023.

“‘I kept still’: Carceral Spaces in A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince.” C19, The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Coral Gables, Mar 31-Apr 2, 2022.

“A Call to Farm: The Communal Reconstructions of Américo Paredes.” C19, The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Coral Gables, Mar 31-Apr 2, 2022.

“‘Every ship that comes in, the colored men are dragged to prison’: Black Travelers, the Law, and Antebellum New Orleans in A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince.” MELUS 2022, The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference, New Orleans, Mar 23-27, 2022.

"Undercurrents in Nancy Gardner Prince’s West Indies Pamphlet: U.S. Abolitionist Perspectives and Exchange in the Wake of Britain’s 1833 Slavery Abolition Act." Florida Atlantic University Comparative Studies Student Association Conference, Virtually, Mar 5, 2021.

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•  Legal Research and Writing I and II
  

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