Mary-Beth Moylan is the associate dean for academic affairs and experiential learning and a professor of lawyering skills at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law. Since 2003, she has supervised the publication of the California Initiative Review, an online journal providing objective and neutral analysis of each statewide ballot proposition. Moylan was president of the highly respected and influential Association of Legal Writing Directors in 2014-2015, and she regularly presents at conferences. In May 2018, she was a panelist for the organization’s first Leadership Academy and she presented at its conference in Boston.

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