Sonia Bychkov Green
Assistant Professor and
Associate Director of Lawyering Skills
The John Marshall Law School
315 S. Plymouth Ct.
Chicago, IL 60604
312.427.2737, ext. 756
E-mail: 7green@jmls.edu   

Sonia Bychkov Green serves as associate director of Lawyering Skills. She coordinates the work of faculty teaching the Lawyering Skills sequence, and also teaches Lawyering Skills I.

While at the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Green was awarded a Ford Foundation Scholarship to study at the Hague Academy of International Law. She practiced in insurance and commercial litigation with McCullough, Campbell & Lane, and Bates Meckler Bulger & Tilson. Before joining the John Marshall faculty, she was assistant professor of legal research and writing at IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, and she has taught legal writing as an adjunct instructor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

Professor Green, who emigrated from Russia to the United States as a young girl, has examined how legislatures and courts create and define laws about language use. Her article "Language of Lullabies: the Russification and de-Russifaction of the Baltic States" was published in 1997 by the Michigan Journal of International Law, and she now is researching bilingualism and English-only laws in the United States.