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The Relative Value Of American Law Reviews: A Critical Appraisal Of Ranking Methods, Ronen Perry
The Relative Value Of American Law Reviews: A Critical Appraisal Of Ranking Methods, Ronen Perry
Ronen Perry
Ranking law reviews is not a novel initiative. Data regarding the relative value of legal periodicals was first published in 1930, in an article primarily concerned with the overall contribution of legal periodicals to the development of positive law. Since then many attempts have been made to rank American law reviews by various criteria. This Article, however, focuses not on actual rankings but on ranking theory and methodology. It offers an introductory discussion of the goals of law review rating, and the essential attributes of reliable and beneficial ranking methods, followed by a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the advantages …
Harry Potter, Ruby Slippers And Merlin: Telling The Client's Story Using The Characters And Paradigm Of The Archetypal Hero's Journey, Ruth Anne Robbins
Harry Potter, Ruby Slippers And Merlin: Telling The Client's Story Using The Characters And Paradigm Of The Archetypal Hero's Journey, Ruth Anne Robbins
Ruth Anne Robbins
This article hypothesizes that lawyers should consider heroic archetype when strategizing the client's story. The article speaks more to storytelling for a judge as factfinder rather than a jury.
Taking The Road Less Traveled: Why Practical Scholarship Makes Sense For The Legal Writing Professor, Mitchell J. Nathanson
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
Keeping Students Interested While Teaching Citation, Anna P. Hemingway
Anna P. Hemingway
No abstract provided.
Painting With Print: Incorporating Concepts Of Typographic And Layout Design Into The Text Of Legal Writing Documents, Ruth Anne Robbins
Painting With Print: Incorporating Concepts Of Typographic And Layout Design Into The Text Of Legal Writing Documents, Ruth Anne Robbins
Ruth Anne Robbins
This article looks at the science behind what makes words readable and legible. It suggests that lawyers should be strategizing the look of the document itself as a persuasive technique. The article also contains suggetsed optimal layouts and looks at court rules around the country to determine whether lawyers can actually accomplish the visual persuasion in a particular jurisdiction (New Jersey lawyers are out of luck beyond the trial level courts). The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has the article linked from its homepage. www.ca7.uscourts.gov
How To Improve Student Ratings: Views From The Trenches, Judith D. Fischer
How To Improve Student Ratings: Views From The Trenches, Judith D. Fischer
Judith D. Fischer
This article reports a study about student ratings of professors (sometimes called “student evaluations of teaching”). Survey respondents were teachers of legal writing in U.S. law schools. Their advice about improving teaching included being prepared for class, respecting the students, and caring about the students. Advice tailored specifically to the student ratings included being “upbeat,” not giving grades before the students complete the evaluation forms, and laying groundwork before presenting unpopular topics. The article also references biases and negative effects of student ratings.
The Lawyer As Legal Scholar, Michael J. Madison
The Lawyer As Legal Scholar, Michael J. Madison
Michael J. Madison
I review Eugene Volokh's recent book, Academic Legal Writing. The book is nominally directed to law students and those who teach them (and for those audiences, it is outstanding), but it also contains a number of valuable lessons for published scholars. The book is more than a writing manual, however. I argue that Professor Volokh suggests implicitly that scholarship is underappreciated as a dimension of the legal profession. A well-trained lawyer, in other words, should have experience as a scholar. The argument sheds new light on ongoing discussions about the character of law schools.
The Propriety Of Poetry In Judicial Opinions, Mary Kate Kearney
The Propriety Of Poetry In Judicial Opinions, Mary Kate Kearney
Mary Kate Kearney
No abstract provided.
Fiction 101: A Primer For Lawyers On How To Use Fiction Writing, Brian J. Foley, Ruth Anne Robbins
Fiction 101: A Primer For Lawyers On How To Use Fiction Writing, Brian J. Foley, Ruth Anne Robbins
Ruth Anne Robbins
This article talks about how to build a story in legal writing using fiction-writing concepts of character, conflict type and resolution.
Applying New Rhetoric To Legal Discourse: The Ebb And Flow Of Reader And Writer, Text And Context, Linda L. Berger
Applying New Rhetoric To Legal Discourse: The Ebb And Flow Of Reader And Writer, Text And Context, Linda L. Berger
Linda L. Berger
No abstract provided.
An Informal History Of How Law Schools Evaluate Students, With A Predictable Emphasis On Law School Exams, Steve Sheppard
An Informal History Of How Law Schools Evaluate Students, With A Predictable Emphasis On Law School Exams, Steve Sheppard
Steve Sheppard
This story of the evolution of legal evaluations from the seventeenth century to the close of the twentieth depicts English influences on American law student evaluations, which have waned in the twentieth century with the advent of course-end examinations. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English examinations given to conclude a legal degree were relatively ceremonial exercises in which performance was often based on the demonstration of rote memory. As examination processes evolved, American law schools adopted essay evaluations from their English counterparts. Examinees in the nineteenth century were given a narrative, requiring the recognition of particularly appropriate legal doctrines, enunciation of the …
Legal Drafting: Teacher’S Manual, John Dernbach, Jane Rutherford, Laurel Vietzen, Susan Brody
Legal Drafting: Teacher’S Manual, John Dernbach, Jane Rutherford, Laurel Vietzen, Susan Brody
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
A Practical Guide To Legal Writing And Legal Method Teacher's Manual, John Dernbach, Richard Singleton, Cathleen Wharton, Joan Ruhtenbert
A Practical Guide To Legal Writing And Legal Method Teacher's Manual, John Dernbach, Richard Singleton, Cathleen Wharton, Joan Ruhtenbert
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Reflecting A King's Wisdom: Bridge-Building And Legal Analysis, Randy Lee
Reflecting A King's Wisdom: Bridge-Building And Legal Analysis, Randy Lee
Randy Lee
No abstract provided.
Writing The Statement Of The Case: The "Bear" Necessities, Randy Lee
Writing The Statement Of The Case: The "Bear" Necessities, Randy Lee
Randy Lee
No abstract provided.
The Art And Science Of Appellate Opinion Drafting: An Annotated Bibliography, Michael J. Slinger
The Art And Science Of Appellate Opinion Drafting: An Annotated Bibliography, Michael J. Slinger
Michael J. Slinger
No abstract provided.
Voices, Values And Community: Some Reflections On Legal Writing, Frank Pommersheim
Voices, Values And Community: Some Reflections On Legal Writing, Frank Pommersheim
Frank Pommersheim
No abstract provided.
The Wrongs Of Legal Writing, John C. Dernbach