President, Professor Lurene Contento

Vice President, Associate Professor Chantal Morton

Secretary, Professor David Austin

David Austin is a Legal Skills Professor at California Western School of Law.  He has also worked as a visiting professor at law schools in Chicago, Brooklyn and Italy.  As a Fulbright Specialist, he helped set up the legal writing program at Bhutan’s first law school.  Prof. Austin holds Italian and U.S. citizenship. In Italy, he worked in the field of HIV prevention and care on projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Health, the E.U., and W.H.O.  Professor Austin was the recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Achievement Award conferred by the AALS Section on Global Engagement as well as the 2018 GLS Award “in recognition of his longstanding commitment to legal skills education around the world.”

Treasurer, Professor Kim Holst

Kimberly Holst is a Clinical Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. She is a Past President of the Legal Writing Institute and has served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Teaching Methods and the Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research. Professor Holst teaches Legal Method and Writing as well as upper-level writing and skills courses at ASU. Professor Holst’s scholarship examines the intersection of law and media—particularly how media impacts public understanding of law or legal issues. Additionally, Professor Holst has presented to numerous domestic and international audiences about techniques for more effective law school pedagogy.

Social Media Officer, Deputy Dean Matthew J. Homewood

Matthew J. Homewood is Deputy Dean at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, where he has taught a number of legal subjects with a particular specialism in European Union Law and aspects of free movement. In 2016 in recognition of his contribution to legal education, Matthew was awarded a HEA National Teaching Fellowship, the most prestigious individual award for excellence in teaching in higher education.  In 2017, Matthew received a Global Legal Skills Award at the Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, in recognition of his personal significant contribution to the promotion and improvement of global legal skills. 

Past President, Professor Mark Wojcik

Mark E. Wojcik was the founder of the Global Legal Skills Conference Series and he is the inaugural President of the Global Legal Skills Institute. He is a Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. He is also a Permanent Guest Professor of Anglo-American and Comparative Law at the University of Luzern Faculty of Law in Switzerland. He has also taught at law schools in China, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, and the Kingdom of Bhutan. He is the author of “Introduction to Legal English,” which was the first Legal English coursebook published in the United States.

MEMBERS AT LARGE

Natasha Costello

Natasha Costello is an English solicitor (non-practising) and a former senior lecturer in law at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she taught property law, client interviewing skills, and legal writing. Natasha is now based in Paris, France and teaches legal English and English law at Université Paris Nanterre. She also works with practising French lawyers to help them improve their oral and written communication skills in English. Natasha has over 25 years’ experience teaching legal skills, both to native and non-native English speakers. She was awarded a Global Legal Skills Book Award in 2023 for her book (co-authored with Louise Kulbicki), ‘Practical English Language Skills for Lawyers: Improving Your Legal English.’

Iselin Gambert

Iselin Gambert is professor and director of the Fundamentals of Lawyering program and is the faculty co-Director of the Animal Legal Education Initiative at The George Washington University Law School. In addition to the first-year Fundamentals course, Iselin teaches a seminar she designed called Gender, Race, Species. She previously taught an interdisciplinary course in critical animal studies at Lund University (Sweden). Iselin’s scholarship spans multiple fields including language and rhetoric, critical animal studies, critical race theory, food law and policy, and feminist legal theory. She is a recipient of a 2019 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellowship in the Personal Essay category, and was the 2024 Vermont Law and Graduate School Distinguished Animal Law Scholar.

Rosa Kim

Rosa Kim is a Professor of Legal Writing at Suffolk University Law School, where she teaches Legal Practice Skills, Advanced Legal Writing, Global Law Classroom, and Asian Americans and the Law. Prior to legal academia, Professor Kim practiced as a civil litigator at the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General and in private firms. Professor Kim‘s scholarship has focused on global legal education and Korean law reform. She is a Past Chair of the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, co-founder of the Asian Pacific American Legal Writing Professors Collective, and a Fulbright Scholar. Professor Kim holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. from Tufts University.

David Sehnálek

Associate Professor David Sehnálek, Ph.D., serves as Vice-Dean at Masaryk University, where he specializes in European Union Law. In 2012, he founded the Autumn School of Legal Writing and Related Global Legal Skills, a pioneering initiative supporting the development of legal skills education in Central Europe. The program uniquely combines Anglo-American approaches with European traditions. In 2020, he launched the Czech conferences Teaching Legal Knowledge and Skills to improve legal education quality and advance legal skills teaching nationwide. In 2024, he received the Masaryk University Rector’s Award for Innovation in Teaching, and in 2025, he was honored with the Global Legal Skills Award for fostering Czech–U.S. academic collaboration and promoting legal skills education internationally.