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U.S. Supreme Court Interviews On Effective Legal Writing – Part Iii, Robert S. Anderson
U.S. Supreme Court Interviews On Effective Legal Writing – Part Iii, Robert S. Anderson
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This column concludes a three-part discussion of legal writing interviews given by eight of the nine sitting justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices discussed usage and grammar issues, as well as their own pet peeves as readers of legal writing.
U.S. Supreme Court Interviews On Effective Legal Writing – Part Ii, Robert S. Anderson
U.S. Supreme Court Interviews On Effective Legal Writing – Part Ii, Robert S. Anderson
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This column continues a three-part discussion of legal writing interviews given by eight of the nine sitting justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition to discussing the elements of effective legal writing, the justices talked about their own writing processes.
U.S. Supreme Court Interviews On Effective Legal Writing – Part I, Robert S. Anderson
U.S. Supreme Court Interviews On Effective Legal Writing – Part I, Robert S. Anderson
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This column begins a three-part discussion of legal writing interviews given by eight of the nine sitting justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. This first part explores the two aspects of good legal writing that were the most often mentioned by the justices during their interviews: clarity and conciseness.
See Erie: Critical Study Of Legal Authority, Kris Franklin
See Erie: Critical Study Of Legal Authority, Kris Franklin
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From Snail Mail To E-Mail: The Traditional Legal Memorandum In The Twenty-First Century, Kristen Konrad Robbins-Tiscione
From Snail Mail To E-Mail: The Traditional Legal Memorandum In The Twenty-First Century, Kristen Konrad Robbins-Tiscione
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Traditional legal memoranda have been used to teach objective analysis since the inception of legal writing programs in the 1970's. The continued use of these memoranda in the legal writing classroom leads law students to believe that traditional memoranda are still the primary form of communication between attorney and client. A 2006 survey of Georgetown University Law Center graduates, however, suggests that the traditional legal memorandum is all but dead in law practice. Seventy-five percent of the graduates surveyed said they write no more than three traditional memoranda per year. Instead, these graduates are more likely to communicate with clients …
Writing To Learn Law And Writing In Law: An Intellectual Property Illustration, Michael J. Madison
Writing To Learn Law And Writing In Law: An Intellectual Property Illustration, Michael J. Madison
Articles
This essay, prepared as part of a Symposium on teaching intellectual property law, describes a method of combining substantive law teaching with a species of what is commonly called "skills" training. The method involves assessing students not via traditional final exams but instead via research memos patterned after assignments that junior lawyers might encounter in actual legal practice. The essay grounds the method in the theoretical disposition known generally as "writing to learn." It argues that students are likely to learn intellectual property law effectively if they learn to practice as intellectual property lawyers, and specifically to write as intellectual …
The Case For "Thinking Like A Filmaker": Using Lars Von Trier's Dogville As A Model For Writing A Statement Of Facts, Elyse Pepper
The Case For "Thinking Like A Filmaker": Using Lars Von Trier's Dogville As A Model For Writing A Statement Of Facts, Elyse Pepper
Faculty Publications
Part I of this Article introduces movies as a persuasive medium. Part II examines the value of movies as teaching tools in the law school context. Part III breaks down the movie Dogville and demonstrates how it might be used to create two Statements of Facts in a fictionalized criminal case. Part IV recaps the lessons learned from using a film as a model for fact writing.