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Recent Books, Michigan Law Review
Recent Books, Michigan Law Review
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Recent Books, Michigan Law Review
Recent Books, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Books received by the Law Review.
An Appreciation Of Jonathan I. Charney, Lori F. Damrosch
An Appreciation Of Jonathan I. Charney, Lori F. Damrosch
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Jon Charney preceded me into the academic world by a dozen years and already had a well-established reputation in international law when I was a brand-new law teacher. At the time we met in 1984, Jon was tackling some of the most ambitious topics in the theory and practice of international law, and he reached out to others for collegial engagement on those subjects. From the mid-1980s, he and I worked together on three collaborative books and on many projects for the American Society of International Law and the American Journal of International Law.
Among the themes that preoccupied Jon …
The Lawyer As Legal Scholar, Michael J. Madison
The Lawyer As Legal Scholar, Michael J. Madison
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I review Eugene Volokh's recent book, Academic Legal Writing. The book is nominally directed to law students and those who teach them (and for those audiences, it is outstanding), but it also contains a number of valuable lessons for published scholars. The book is more than a writing manual, however. I argue that Professor Volokh suggests implicitly that scholarship is underappreciated as a dimension of the legal profession. A well-trained lawyer, in other words, should have experience as a scholar. The argument sheds new light on ongoing discussions about the character of law schools.