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Ali Friedberg Tal-mason

Assistant Professor

Ali Friedberg Tal-mason

Ali Friedberg Tal-mason Assistant Professor

atalmason@barry.edu

Education

J.D., University of Miami College of Law, magna cum laude
B.A., Florida Atlantic University, cum laude

Areas of Interest

Legal Research and Writing Pedagogy; Appellate Law and Practice; U.S. Legal History; Law and Literature; Legal Humanities; C19 American Studies

Courses Taught:
Legal Research and Writing I and II; Professional Writing; Interdisciplinary Studies Seminar; College Writing I and II; Law, Citizenship, and Identity; Interpretation of Fiction

Biography

Ali Friedberg Tal-mason is an Assistant Professor of Law at Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law. She teaches Legal Research and Writing. Professor Tal-mason previously taught Legal Research and Writing at Florida A&M College of Law, and has experience teaching a variety of undergraduate writing courses. She is a Florida Bar member attorney with a practice background in appellate law, legal research and brief writing, and consumer arbitration. She has also held judicial clerkships in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and the Fourth District Court of Appeal.

Professor Tal-mason received her J.D. from the University of Miami, magna cum laude, where she was an editor on the University of Miami Inter-American Law Review. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies, with an interdisciplinary focus in legal history and postcolonial literature, at Florida Atlantic University. Her Ph.D. dissertation is a biographical study of nineteenth-century author, educator, and philanthropist, Nancy Gardner Prince (1799-1859), an African American woman who published two anti-slavery texts in Boston in the 1840s and 1850s after living abroad in Russia and Jamaica.

Recent Publications:
Journal Article and Book Chapter: "Nancy Prince: Strategic Remappings through Travel and Text" (2024) Routledge.
Journal Article:“Voyage to the Marvelous: A Traveler's Guide to The Kingdom of This World" (2020) Cambridge
Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.“Reconsidering the Doctrine of Discovery: Spanish Land Acquisition in Mexico (1521-1821)." (1999) Wisconsin International Law Journal.