Ann Sinsheimer teaches legal writing. In addition to her interest in writing, her research interests include international legal education and the study of law and language. She also co-teaches a course at the law school entitled U.S. Law and Language, a summer intensive program for international lawyers, and has had the opportunity to teach this course overseas in places such as Ethiopia, Serbia, Belgium, and Iceland.
Professor Sinsheimer has extensive experience as a teacher and consultant of legal and technical writing, and of English as a Second Language and has served as a lecturer and consultant at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan’s English Language Institute. Before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, she worked at the University of Oxford’s Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in the United Kingdom.