Sarah Cansler to teach Legal Writing and Research at Campbell Law

RALEIGH- Campbell Law School welcomes Sarah Cansler to teach Legal Writing and Research this fall, Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced.

Prior to joining Blackbaud, she worked as an associate at Womble Bond Dickinson in the firm's Labor & Employment Practice Group and Alston & Bird in the firm's Litigation and Trial Practice Group, both in Raleigh. She also served as a law clerk to The Honorable Gregory P. McGuire in the North Carolina Business Court in Raleigh.

She is also credentialed in data privacy as a OneTrust Certified Privacy Professional and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe from International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Cansler's publications include "An 'Insurmountable Hurdle' to Class Action Certification? The Heightened Ascertainability Requirement's Effect on Small Consumer Claims," North Carolina Law Review 94, No. 4 (May 2016): 1382-1407; "Annie Oakley, Gender, and Guns: The 'Champion Rifle Shot' and Gender Performance, 1860-1926," Pursuit: The Journal of Undergraduate Research V, issue I (2014): 159-187; and "'Stamp Out This Awful Cancer': The Fear of Radicals, Atheists, and Modernism at the University of Tennessee in the 1920s," The Journal of East Tennessee History 85 (2013): 48-69.

Cansler earned her law degree with honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2017. During law school she served as a staff member and on the editorial board of the North Carolina Law Review, as president of the American Constitution Society and as s research assistant. She graduated with honors and a bachelor of arts in history from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 2013.

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