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2005

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Taking The Road Less Traveled: Why Practical Scholarship Makes Sense For The Legal Writing Professor, Mitchell J. Nathanson Aug 2005

Taking The Road Less Traveled: Why Practical Scholarship Makes Sense For The Legal Writing Professor, Mitchell J. Nathanson

Mitchell J Nathanson

This article examines the issue of scholarship as it pertains to the legal writing professor. While the old adage that you should “write what you know” applies universally – to fiction as well as non-fiction and to scholarship written by the legal writing professor as much as it does to the doctrinal professor, the question this article attempts to answer is this: given that legal writing is a “skills” rather than “substantive” course, just what is it that legal writing professors, at least as compared to their doctrinal counterparts, know? Through the analysis of an original professional background survey of …


Keeping Students Interested While Teaching Citation, Anna P. Hemingway Jul 2005

Keeping Students Interested While Teaching Citation, Anna P. Hemingway

Anna P. Hemingway

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