legal research and writing
Student Law Review Articles With Legs
It’s easy for law students to think of the articles they write for law review as necessary evils, grown-up book reports that demonstrate their research and writing ability to potential employers and justify the prestige-grab of law review. Eugene Volokh, whose excellent Legal Academic Writing will show up on any recommended reading list, is tracking […]
FAMU Law School Legal Writing Director embarrassed by grammatical errors, nonsensical passages in Paper
St. Petersburg Times: Errors mar law prof’s paper, Hat tip to How Appealing.
The paper — which Dawson had removed from the site after the Times began asking questions — is peppered with spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors. Even the title is off: “Environmental Dispute Resolution: Developing Mechanisims (sic) for Effective Transnational Enforcement of International Environmental […]
More on Storytelling and the Law
In Duke Rape Case Fall Out - the Power to change our Collective Narratives? I discussed narrative as the little hypotheticals we go through to test the believability of facts when we’re evaluating something we’ve been told. A lawyer-friend of mine started me on this idea of narrative and the law a few days ago […]
Should I be Bluebooking my Blawgraphy Cites?
Sigh…, Christine Hurt, Conglomerate, http://www.theconglomerate.org/2007/03/bluebook_pet_pe.html (March 13, 2007).
Checking a Cite, Checking it Twice, Gonna Find Out Who’s Naughty or Nice…
Just in case you were thinking that citation signals were just for show, Howard Bashman relates this cautionary tale -
The exchange began when Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. remarked that Tribe’s merits brief did not appear to cite very much authority for a certain point. Tribe remarked that there were two older New York State […]
Patently Obvious Legal Research Skill #1
Write down what you just sent to the printer if you want to come back with it. I speak from experience.
In Praise of the Casebook
Legal Research and Writing (LARC in UHLC’s unfortunate acronym parlance - Legal Analysis Research and Composition, perhaps? who knows…) is the only course we’ve had so far that doesn’t use a casebook. When I arrived at law school, I found the case book a perplexing system at best - full of accidental precedent, jurisprudential pretzel-twisting […]