Law Review Write On: For those of you gearing up for the Case Note
It’s law review write-on season at the University of Houston. The Houston Law Review website has the details of the competition. The same casenote competition applies for the Houston Journal of International Law, Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy and Houston Business and Tax Law Journal. Here’s a round up from the web to tide you over from my brief hiatus, starting June 30.
- The Law Review Blogfather Eugene Volokh makes peace with the Roadmap paragraph in Law Review Article Roadmaps Without Roadmap Paragraphs which contains some excellent examples from his recently published “Medical Self-Defense, Prohibited Experimental Therapies, and Payment for Organs” . Harvard Law Review, Vol. 120, April 2007. Volokh’s Academic Legal Writing is now what passes for bedside reading for me now. Sigh. His four part series of tips for the Write On Process appears here - One, Two, Three, Four.
- Volokh suggests spending some quality time with ones Bluebook. Is it “blue” for a reason? I think it is. Whether the more appropriate visual connotation is clinical depression or a thorough bruising remains to be seen. The Bluebook is a jealous and a vengeful god. Thou shalt have no other citation manuals before it.
- Whatever you do, speak to NO ONE. If someone stops you on the street and attempts to give you unsolicited advice on bluebook citations, turn and run as fast as you can screaming “la la la la la la la la” as loud as possible to drown them out. That person will be hunted and killed by a fraternal order of honor code (.pdf) police that does not, in fact, exist. (wink wink, nod nod)
- Some enterprising JD may offer to write your law review article for you. Resist the temptation.
- One might do well to reflect on what exactly one is getting oneself into. Lost in Law School notes that “Law Review owns me.” Yikes, OK that’s enough reflecting for today…
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I’m almost afraid to ask. ;-)
Though as a play the title would be worthy of Albee… later, weirder Albee.
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My unsuccessful law review write-on attempt was titled “Now, Natasha, We Must Get Moos.”