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Integrating Contract Drafting Skills And Doctrine, Eric Goldman
Integrating Contract Drafting Skills And Doctrine, Eric Goldman
Faculty Publications
In February 2006, I participated in the Symposium, Teaching Writing and Teaching Doctrine: A Symbiotic Relationship?, at Brooklyn Law School. I prepared some personal and unscientific observations about the challenges of concurrently teaching legal doctrine and contract drafting. Obviously, there is a rich literature on these topics that I did not try to address; instead, my goal was simply to acknowledge my first-hand experiences wrestling with these challenges and discuss some specific solutions I have tried. This brief Essay recaps my presentation.
The Bard And The Bench: An Opinion And Brief Writer's Guide To Shakespeare, Robert Peterson
The Bard And The Bench: An Opinion And Brief Writer's Guide To Shakespeare, Robert Peterson
Faculty Publications
This work is a legal brief writer's and opinion drafter's guide to Shakespeare. It collects and catalogues by topic citations to plays, poems, or passages that are actually found in judicial opinions. This essay also suggests a few uncited orphans deserving a home in brief or opinion. The catalogue is web based; the reader may search it in its electronic format or download it for old-fashioned browsing.
The Value Of Narrative In Legal Scholarship And Teaching, Jean C. Love
The Value Of Narrative In Legal Scholarship And Teaching, Jean C. Love
Faculty Publications
Storytelling-particularly storytelling written from an "outsider's" perspective-is a new form of legal writing that appears with increasing frequency on the pages of law reviews and specialized legal journals. At the same time, critics are questioning whether storytelling deserves to be classified as a form of legal scholarship. Perhaps storytellers are to be regarded as talented and creative writers, but do they truly deserve to be called legal scholars? At first, the debate was local, arising in the context of the deliberations of appointments committees and tenure committees. Now the debate is national, and it is being conducted on the pages …
Employment Discrimination Law, Cynthia Mertens
Employment Discrimination Law, Cynthia Mertens
Faculty Publications
Employment Discrimination Law must be on the desk of every practitioner in this field and in all law libraries. The volume is also an excellent teaching tool. There is no question that the authors' two primary objectives have been met; the book is of "significant and equal value to practitioner and student and of substantial value to the sophisticated non-lawyer," and is "balanced and non-partisan.