bio:

Professor Tyler began teaching in the CSU College of Law Legal Writing and Research program in 1991. For two decades prior to, and during law school, she worked nights as an Emergency Room nurse at MetroHealth. She attended law school with one of her six children, her son, the Honorable Thomas Tyler, who serves as an Adminstrative Law Judge for Medicare appeals. Professor Tyler began her legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Blanche E. Krupansky, Chief Justice of the 8th District Court of Appeals. She also served as a consultant to practitioners on medical malpractice claims and risk management.

In 2001, Professor Tyler became the Director of the Legal Writing Department and collegially supervised a group comprised of seven full time Legal Writing faculty and several adjuncts. In that same year, Professor Tyler's greatest honor was to be chosen to serve as Advisor to the Journal of Law and Health. The Journal members, upon her retirement, honored her by creating the Barbara J. Tyler Scholarship, an award given each year to the Journal member writing the best health related note.

During Professor Tyler's tenure, the Legal Writing department added a third semester writing requirement and many new course selections, including Advanced Legal Writing, Scholarly Writing, Transactional Drafting, as well as subject-specific drafting selections. Professor Tyler has published widely in law reviews in the areas of Law and Medicine, Psychology of Learning, Art Law, Tort Law and Insurance Law, as well as in a textbook on HIPAA and privacy in Cybermedicine, Telemedicine and Data Protection, IGI (2008). She also presented nationally on many of these and other subjects, such as teaching and learning theory and bar exam techniques.