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Guest Blog On Skills: Professor Jan Levine's Legislative Drafting Course At Duquesne, Jan M. Levine
Guest Blog On Skills: Professor Jan Levine's Legislative Drafting Course At Duquesne, Jan M. Levine
Law Faculty Publications
For more than two decades, at three law schools, I have been teaching an advanced legal writing course that builds upon the foundation created in the first-year writing courses and introduces students to new drafting skills, focusing on statutes and statutory drafting. The final project in the course requires students to solve a personally-identified legal or quasi-legal problem by drafting a report and a statute, ordinance, regulation, procedural rule, or a similar solution.
The Dominance Of Teams In The Production Of Legal Knowledge, Christopher A. Cotropia
The Dominance Of Teams In The Production Of Legal Knowledge, Christopher A. Cotropia
Law Faculty Publications
While collaboration is familiar to some legal researchers, the field, for the most part, does not seem to implicate the large-scale complexity and cost that has become associated with big science. These logistical differences, combined with a very strong cultural preference in legal academic circles for solitary work, could potentially keep team research from dominating the production of legal knowledge to the same extent that it has come to dominate the production of knowledge in other areas. On the other hand, the dominance of team research outputs and a shift towards team research has been observed in social sciences and …
Legal Writing: A History From The Colonial Era To The End Of The Civil War, David R. Cleveland
Legal Writing: A History From The Colonial Era To The End Of The Civil War, David R. Cleveland
Law Faculty Publications
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The Many Texts Of The Law, Michael Davis, Dana Neacsu
The Many Texts Of The Law, Michael Davis, Dana Neacsu
Law Faculty Publications
This paper contends that even as jurists invoke the official canonic version of the legal text, it is in danger of being replaced for the jurist, as well as for the lay person, if it has not been substituted already, by some apocryphal, inauthentic or casual text. We argue that in addition to the approximate nature of legal knowledge, the overuse of overedited and perverted casebooks, as well as the distribution of legal information among imperfect sources – some official but partial, others inauthentic but highly accessible, and a few reliable but highly unaffordable commercial sources – are largely responsible …