Elizabeth Sherowski
Elizabeth Sherowski
Assistant Professor of Law
Degrees
- J.D. The Ohio State University College of Law
- B.A. University of Notre Dame
Biography
Elizabeth Sherowski is a nationally recognized expert in learner-focused pedagogy, and has written and presented extensively on making legal education more transparent, accessible, and accountable to students. Professor Sherowski previously worked was an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Franklin County, Ohio who tried juvenile, felony, and appellate cases. She later opened her own law practice, which focused on juvenile, disability, and education law.
Professor Sherowski joined the Detroit Mercy Law faculty in 2020 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. In 2022, she was promoted to Assistant Professor of Law. She previously taught at The Ohio State University College of Law, the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Mercer University School of Law.
Professor Sherowski and her family serve as a foster family for rescued greyhounds; they teach retired racers, who are used to living in a kennel, how to live in a home so they can be adopted by other loving families.
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Courses Taught
Applied Legal Theory and Analysis I & II
Appellate Advocacy/Appellate Practice
Evidence
Disability Law
Transactional Drafting
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Selected Publications
Legal Argumentation: Reasoning & Writing About the Law, Co-author (6 chapters); CALI E-Langdell Press (2025)
Gen Z Meets NextGen: Using Generation Z Pedagogy to Prepare Students for the NextGen Bar Exam, 101 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 333 (2024)
An Inclusive Model for New Lawyer Licensing, 51 Capital University Law Review, 51 Cap. U. L. Rev. 77 (2023)
Measuring Impact: A Supportive and Inclusive Definition of Legal Writing Scholarship, 2 Proceedings: The Online Journal of Legal Writing Conference Presentations 22 (2021)
Book Review: Narrative and Metaphor in the Law, 17 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric 183 (2020) (peer reviewed)
A New Way to Teach Secondary Source Research: Source Discovery, 28 Persps. 32 (2020) (peer reviewed)
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Selected Presentations
Selecting a Legal Writing Textbook (co-presenter), Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT (March 2025)
Best Practices in Modern Moot Court (invited panelist), New England Legal Writing Conference, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA (October 2024)
5 Reasons to Include Transactional Drafting in Your Legal Writing Course (co-presenter), Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, IN (July 2024)
Gen Z Meets NextGen: Using Generation Z Pedagogy to Prepare Students for the NextGen Bar Exam, University of Detroit Mercy Law Review Symposium (invited presenter), University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Detroit, MI (March 2024)
The NextGen Bar Exam: A Third Semester of Legal Writing?, Central States Legal Writing Conference, Drake University Law School, Des Moines, IA (September 2023)
Creating a Superior Syllabus (for New Legal Writing Professors), Legal Writing Institute New Teacher Bootcamp, Temple University Beazley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA (online) (August 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022)
Re-Imagining the Research Log, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Georgetown University Law School, Washington, DC (July 2022)
Writing Connections: Discipline-Building Through Scholarship, discussant Maintaining Balance in an Age of Chaos, panelist
Legal Writing Panels/Discussion Groups, SEALS Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, FL (July 2021)Writing Connections: Making Moot Court Matter, panelist, Clinical Skills Discussion Group, SEALS Annual Meeting (online) (August 2020)
Change Your Syllabus, Change Your Life (for New Legal Writing Professors), Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, Penn State University College of Law, University Park, PA (online) (December 2020)
Non-Attorney Law Firm Ownership, New Scholars Workshop, Works in Progress, SEALS Annual Meeting (online) (August 2020)
Change Your Syllabus, Change Your Life (Pandemic Edition), Instructional Design Workshop, featured presentation, AALL National Convention (online) (July 2020)
Mastering the Model Answer, Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop, Penn State Dickinson College of Law, Carlisle, PA (December 2019)
Source Discovery, New England Consortium of Teachers of Legal Writing Boston College Law School, Chestnut Hill, MA (October 2019)
Change Your Syllabus, Change Your Life: For Librarians, Research Instruction and Patron Services (RIPS-SIS) Webinar American Association of Law Libraries, online (May 2019)
The Two-Way Rubric, Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Boyd School of Law, Las Vegas, NV (March 2019)