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Gender Neutral Ii, K.K. Duvivier
Gender Neutral Ii, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Continuation of article above including discussions of personal pronouns, use of "they," and sex-neutral terms.
Gender Neutral, K.K. Duvivier
Gender Neutral, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Regardless of your preference, you should be aware that the use of "he" as a universal gender pronoun now is controversial, and your reader probably will follow only one of two very divergent ideologies. Therefore, fall back on a primary rule of persuasive writing: avoid any words or structures that alienate your rader or distract from your message.
Procrastination, K.K. Duvivier
Procrastination, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Panic has set in. The deadline for your brief or memo is now measured in hours rather than days. You think, “Maybe the adrenaline will make me more efficient, but if only I had started earlier!” If you often or occasionally find yourself in this predicament, here are three suggestions to help you avoid it in the future.
Law Review Usage And Suggestions For Improvement: A Survey Of Attorneys, Professors, And Judges, Max Stier, Kelly M. Klaus, Dan L. Bagatell, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
Law Review Usage And Suggestions For Improvement: A Survey Of Attorneys, Professors, And Judges, Max Stier, Kelly M. Klaus, Dan L. Bagatell, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
We do not need to worry about the consumers of law reviews because they really do not exist. A few professors who author texts must read some of the articles, but most volumes are purchased to decorate law school library shelves. The only purchasers of law reviews outside of academe are law firms which gladly pay for the volumes even though no one reads them.
University Of Florida Introduces New Electronic Reference Room, Rosalie M. Sanderson, Betty W. Taylor
University Of Florida Introduces New Electronic Reference Room, Rosalie M. Sanderson, Betty W. Taylor
UF Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Personal Narratives And Racial Distinctiveness In The Legal Academy, Maria O'Brien
Personal Narratives And Racial Distinctiveness In The Legal Academy, Maria O'Brien
Faculty Scholarship
A small group of legal academicians is embroiled in yet another debate that, to the uninitiated at least, appears to have little or nothing to do with "the law." 1 This time the issue is the ideology of legal writing style-that is, does a growing, unique body of legal scholarship that draws on the personal experiences of minority faculty and, arguably, reflects the racial oppression these scholars have suffered, produce "distinct normative insights?" 2 Professor Patricia Williams of the University of Wisconsin clearly believes that it does.
In her new book, The Alchemy of Race and Rights,3 which is …
Be Plain, K.K. Duvivier
Be Plain, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
You are pondering which word to use in a brief. Which should you sue—“supra,” “aforementioned” or “above”? Be cautious of Latin and archaic English words. If you use them, your argument, as well as your reputation may be placed at risk.
White Space, K.K. Duvivier
White Space, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Assist your reader by providing white space for breaks. Consider the readers' response when confronted with a solid page of print. The same page will be less formidable when broken into three or four paragraphs. Logical break points can always be found, even if the whole page deals with just one idea or subject. Offer your readers "footholds. . .[t]o clamber over the trying cliff-face of prose." Facilitate communication by using shorter sentences and paragraphs.
Advice And Consent In Theory And Practice, Roger J. Miner '56
Advice And Consent In Theory And Practice, Roger J. Miner '56
Federal Court System and Administration
No abstract provided.
Book Review Of Directory Of Foreign Law Collections In Selected Law Libraries, James S. Heller
Book Review Of Directory Of Foreign Law Collections In Selected Law Libraries, James S. Heller
Library Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Teaching Legal Research: Past And Present, Joyce Manna Janto
Teaching Legal Research: Past And Present, Joyce Manna Janto
Law Faculty Publications
For years librarians have debated which procedures will most effectively instruct law students in the art of legal research. Ms. Janto and Ms. Harrison-Cox trace the history of these efforts and propose a model program for the teaching of legal research.
Twenty-Five 'Dos' For Appellate Brief Writers, Roger J. Miner '56
Twenty-Five 'Dos' For Appellate Brief Writers, Roger J. Miner '56
Federal Courts and Federal Practice
No abstract provided.
Judges’ Pet Peeves Ii, K.K. Duvivier
Judges’ Pet Peeves Ii, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
The last Scrivener (November issue at page 2257) focused on a leading complaint that four Denver District Court judges identified when I polled them last summer. Recently, I have discussed legal writing problems with a few justices of the Colorado Supreme Court and judges of the Colorado Court of Appeals. This column focuses on some of the concerns voiced by these judges.
Book Review: Death Is The Mother Of Metaphor, Steven L. Winter
Book Review: Death Is The Mother Of Metaphor, Steven L. Winter
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
150 Years Of Research : A Bibliography Of The Indiana University School Of Law Faculty, 1842-1992, Linda K. Fariss
150 Years Of Research : A Bibliography Of The Indiana University School Of Law Faculty, 1842-1992, Linda K. Fariss
150 Years of Research: A Bibliography of Indiana University School of Law Faculty, 1842-1992
Compiled for the law school's sesquicentennial in 1992, this work contains comprehensive entries for all past and then current faculty members, listing works written before and during their time at the law school.
Law library librarians Keith A. Buckley, Mitchell E. Counts, Ralph F. Gaebler, Michael M. Maben, Marianne Mason, F. Richard Vaughan and Nona K. Watt contributed to the bibliography and Linda K. Fariss edited.
Secondary Legal Sources: A Selected Subject Bibliography Of Treatises, Looseleaf Services And Form Books Sixth Edition, Rose Coad, Beth Mcwilliams
Secondary Legal Sources: A Selected Subject Bibliography Of Treatises, Looseleaf Services And Form Books Sixth Edition, Rose Coad, Beth Mcwilliams
Law Library Publications
The sixth edition of this bibliography is a subject arrangement of selected English language treatises, looseleaf services and form books. Most of the works listed were published in this country, and all are in the collection of this law library.
The object in revising this bibliography has been to present to law students of the University of Michigan a reasonably thorough listing of useful and current secondary sources covering domestic and international law. The inclusion of a work in this bibliography does not mean the Law Library is endorsing either the author's sty le or the substance of the work. …
Writing For Judges, Pierre Schlag
Your Right To Privacy: A Selective Bibliography, Sandra S. Klein
Your Right To Privacy: A Selective Bibliography, Sandra S. Klein
Journal Articles
An awareness of relevant contemporary legal thought in the area of privacy is especially important today in light of what appears to be an increasing hostility to .the notion of individual privacy. The following bibliography considers privacy in terms of concept and application, and should prove useful to scholars, practitioners, and those seeking to gain more knowledge about this very important and complicated area of law.
Teaching Writing Through Substance: The Integration Of Legal Writing With All Deliberate Speed, Michelle S. Simon
Teaching Writing Through Substance: The Integration Of Legal Writing With All Deliberate Speed, Michelle S. Simon
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The stated pedagogical task of the first year of law school is to teach students to "think like lawyers." Legal writing, which is a traditional first-year course, serves this purpose by helping students develop writing and analytical skills that are essential to their ultimate success as lawyers. The greatest difficulty faced by those who teach legal writing, however, is communicating to students that legal writing is a means towards synthesizing the law and preparing them for the complex legal and human problems of modern law practice. To help overcome this difficulty, Pace Law School has developed a course that fully …
Restoring The Common In The Law: Proposal For The Elimination Of Rules Prohibiting The Citation Of Unpublished Decisions In Kansas And The Tenth Circuit, Mark D. Hinderks, Steve A. Leben
Restoring The Common In The Law: Proposal For The Elimination Of Rules Prohibiting The Citation Of Unpublished Decisions In Kansas And The Tenth Circuit, Mark D. Hinderks, Steve A. Leben
Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
On Defining Academic Scholarship, Stephen J. Werber
On Defining Academic Scholarship, Stephen J. Werber
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In 1970, I left the world of a litigation attorney and joined that of academia. One of the first survival lessons that I learned was that, in order to gain tenure and ultimately achieve the pinnacle of full professor, I had to establish myself as a scholar. This, I learned, meant that I had to publish. Perusal of the Personnel Policies of our University, which are similar to those of many others, indicated that a key to a successful career was that I produce "an outstanding record as a scholar." The closest definition to the term in the personnel policies …
Turning Online Time Into Quality Time: Searching Ohio Case Law On Lexis And Westlaw, Randy J. Diamond
Turning Online Time Into Quality Time: Searching Ohio Case Law On Lexis And Westlaw, Randy J. Diamond
Faculty Publications
This article discusses some of the lesser known complexities of LEXIS and WESTLAW and the necessity for evaluating these systems critically. Sample searches highlight the major differences between WESTLAW's and LEXIS's search protocols. Comparable features of each system are examined to show how users can improve the quality of their search results and to warn of unintended consequences when users misapply them. Strategies for formulating searches that retrieve relevant cases and prevent the exclusion of potentially relevant cases are considered, along with the economics of online searching. Although the searches presented are limited to Ohio case law, they are adaptable …
Translation As A Mode Of Thought, James Boyd White
Translation As A Mode Of Thought, James Boyd White
Articles
I think that Clark Cunningham's article, The Lawyer as Translator, is a wonderful piece of work, full of life and interest and originality. I especially admire: his ability to make vivid to the reader the ways in which languages do truly differ, and differ beyond our efforts to bridge them-as he shows when he imagines an attempt to translate our most common professional terms into Chinese; his recoguition of the kind of force that our languages have over our minds, both as we see the world and as we tell stories about it; his sense that what we think of …
The Constitution As Literature, James Boyd White
The Constitution As Literature, James Boyd White
Book Chapters
Although presumably no one would say that the Constitution offers its readers an experience that cannot be distinguished from reading a poem or a novel, there is nonetheless a sense in which it is a kind of highly imaginative literature in its own right (indeed its nature as law requires that this be so), the reading of which may be informed by our experience of other literary forms. But to say this may be controversial, and the first step toward understanding how such a claim can be made may be to ask what it is we think characterizes imaginative literature …
Evidentiary Rules And Rulings: The Role Of Treatises, Richard D. Friedman
Evidentiary Rules And Rulings: The Role Of Treatises, Richard D. Friedman
Articles
I have devoted large gobs of time to work on a multi-author treatise on the law of evidence.' And before even one volume is published, I will devote further multiple gobs of time to the project-which, perhaps audaciously and perhaps merely foolishly, but with heredity and precedent on our side,2 we are calling The New Wigmore. Accordingly, I found the question posed by this symposium-Does Evidence Law Matter?-rather disquieting. If it is doubtful even whether the law of evidence matters, then how much can a treatise on the law of evidence matter, and how worthwhile can such a work be? …
Outsider Scholarship: The Law Review Stories, Mary I. Coombs
Outsider Scholarship: The Law Review Stories, Mary I. Coombs
Articles
No abstract provided.