TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Suzanne Craig Robertson on Jan 6, 2020

Belmont University College of Law will soon add a new opportunity for a select group of students when Professor Kristi Wilcox Arth begins a spring semester legal fiction writing workshop. An extracurricular activity, the group of up to eight students will work on short stories with legal themes throughout the semester with the goal of submitting final versions to the American Bar Association's legal fiction competition in June. Along the way, students will attend an opening lecture on the short story form, engage in peer review, and turn in a draft for faculty review. Arth was the winner of the Tennessee Bar Journal's Fiction Contest in 2017. She teaches Legal Information and Communication I & II at Belmont. Before she joined the school's faculty, she was a partner with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP.