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Panel 2: Justice Kennedy's Prose — Style And Substance
Panel 2: Justice Kennedy's Prose — Style And Substance
Georgia State University Law Review
Moderator: Eric Segall
Panelists: Eric Berger, Michael Dorf, and Jamal Greene
Take Inventory Each Year, David Spratt
Take Inventory Each Year, David Spratt
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Exploring Diversity With A "Culture Box" In First-Year Legal Writing, Ann N. Sinsheimer
Exploring Diversity With A "Culture Box" In First-Year Legal Writing, Ann N. Sinsheimer
Articles
Studying law is in many ways like studying another culture. Students often feel as though they are learning a new language with unfamiliar vocabulary and different styles of communication. Throughout their legal education, students are also exposed to a profession comprised of unique traditions and expectations. As a result, learning law takes time and energy. It can be both engaging and frustrating and may even challenge some of students’ values and belief systems. To ease her students’ transition to law school, the author starts her course each year with a “culture box” exercise, which encourages students to examine who they …
Does The Reasonable Man Have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?, Lucille Jewel
Does The Reasonable Man Have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?, Lucille Jewel
Scholarly Works
The reasonable man is an anthropomorphic metaphor for legal reasoning. In this role, he sometimes shows symptoms of mental illness. He exhibits a compulsion to organize, rank, and prevent disorder, a process that can create unjust outcomes. When he is symptomatic, the reasonable man becomes a monster borne out of a fear of disorder. As the putative judge whom all lawyers write and speak in front of, the reasonable man is the reader attorneys fine-tune their arguments and language for. After developing a case history for the reasonable man, this Article engages with several questions. First, when advocates emulate the …
Does The Reasonable Man Have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?, Lucille Jewel
Does The Reasonable Man Have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?, Lucille Jewel
College of Law Faculty Scholarship
The reasonable man is an anthropomorphic metaphor for legal reasoning. In this role, he sometimes shows symptoms of mental illness. He exhibits a compulsion to organize, rank, and prevent disorder, a process that can create unjust outcomes. When he is symptomatic, the reasonable man becomes a monster borne out of a fear of disorder. As the putative judge whom all lawyers write and speak in front of, the reasonable man is the reader attorneys fine-tune their arguments and language for. After developing a case history for the reasonable man, this Article engages with several questions. First, when advocates emulate the …