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Articles 1 - 21 of 21
Full-Text Articles in Law
One Judge's "Ten Tips For Effective Brief Writing" (Part Ii), Douglas E. Abrams
One Judge's "Ten Tips For Effective Brief Writing" (Part Ii), Douglas E. Abrams
Faculty Publications
Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge Terrence L. Michael (N.D.OKLA.) has written "Ten Tips for Effective Brief Writing" and posted them on the court's website. In the Journal's September-October issue, part 1 of this article began by discussing Tip #9 ("leave the venom at home"). That part proceeded to discuss Tips 1-4.
This final part discusses the remaining Tips. All 10 thoughtful Tips warrant careful consideration from advocates who prepare submissions for trial courts or appellate courts.
Shot Selection, Patrick J. Barry
Shot Selection, Patrick J. Barry
The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process
No abstract provided.
The Art Of The Effective Reply, Peter M. Mansfield
The Art Of The Effective Reply, Peter M. Mansfield
The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process
No abstract provided.
Legal Citation Part Iii: Using Citation To Convey Textual Meaning, Jason G. Dykstra, Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff
Legal Citation Part Iii: Using Citation To Convey Textual Meaning, Jason G. Dykstra, Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff
Articles
No abstract provided.
Alliteration, Restraint, And A Mind At Work, Patrick Barry
Alliteration, Restraint, And A Mind At Work, Patrick Barry
Articles
Alliteration is great—until it’s not. You can pretty quickly overdo it, though I don’t think any major professional sports franchise has yet. The Boston Bruins, the Seattle Seahawks, the Cleveland Cavaliers: these names all have a nice ring to them. As do countless others, from the Washington Wizards to the Tennessee Titans to the Buffalo Bills. The sounds run quickly off your tongue and not unpleasantly into the air. They’re not irritating or obnoxious—unless maybe you’re a fan of the opposing team.
Show And Tell, Patrick Barry
Show And Tell, Patrick Barry
Articles
“Show don’t tell.” Teachers preach these words. Style guides endorse them. And you’d be hard pressed to find any editor or law firm partner who hasn’t offered them as feedback in the last year, month, week, maybe even day. There’s only one problem: “Show don’t tell” is bad advice. Or at least, it is incomplete advice.
How We Built A Scholarly Working Group Devoted To Classical Legal Rhetoric (And How You Can Do The Same Thing With Other Legal Writing Subjects), Brian Larson, Kirsten K. Davis, Lori D. Johnson, Ted Becker, Susan E. Provenzano
How We Built A Scholarly Working Group Devoted To Classical Legal Rhetoric (And How You Can Do The Same Thing With Other Legal Writing Subjects), Brian Larson, Kirsten K. Davis, Lori D. Johnson, Ted Becker, Susan E. Provenzano
Brian Larson
Judges And Their Editors, Douglas E. Abrams
Judges And Their Editors, Douglas E. Abrams
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
De-Grading Assessment: Rejecting Rubrics In Favor Of Authentic Analysis, Deborah L. Borman
De-Grading Assessment: Rejecting Rubrics In Favor Of Authentic Analysis, Deborah L. Borman
Seattle University Law Review
Assigning grades is the least joyful duty of the law professor. In the current climate of legal education, law professors struggle with issues such as increased class size, providing “practice-ready” graduates, streamlining assignments, and accountability in assessment. In an effort to ease the burden of grading written legal analyses, individual professors or law school writing programs or both may develop articulated rubrics to assess students’ written work. Rubrics are classification tools that allow us to articulate our judgment of a written work. Rubrics may be as extensive as twenty categories and subcategories or may be limited to only a few …
Who Wants To Be A Muggle? The Diminished Legitimacy Of Law As Magic, Mark Edwin Burge
Who Wants To Be A Muggle? The Diminished Legitimacy Of Law As Magic, Mark Edwin Burge
Mark Edwin Burge
In the Harry Potter world, the magical population lives among the non-magical Muggle population, but we Muggles are largely unaware of them. This secrecy is by elaborate design and is necessitated by centuries-old hostility to wizards by the non-magical majority. The reasons behind this hostility, when combined with the similarities between Harry Potter-stylemagic and American law, make Rowling’s novels into a cautionary tale for the legal profession that it not treat law as a magic unknowable to non-lawyers. Comprehensibility — as a self-contained, normative value in the enactment interpretation, and practice of law — is given short-shrift by the legal …
Better Briefs, Lydia Fearing
Better Briefs, Lydia Fearing
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
Abstract forthcoming
“And/Or” And The Proper Use Of Legal Language, Ira P. Robbins
“And/Or” And The Proper Use Of Legal Language, Ira P. Robbins
Maryland Law Review
The use of the term and/or is pervasive in legal language. Lawyers use it in all types of legal contexts—including statutes, contracts, and pleadings. Beginning in the 1930s, however, many judges decided that the term and/or should never be used in legal drafting. Ardent attacks on the term included charges that it was vague, if not meaningless, with some authorities declaring it to be a “Janus-faced verbal monstrosity,” an “inexcusable barbarism,” a “mongrel expression,” an “abominable invention,” a “crutch of sloppy thinkers,” and “senseless jargon.” Still today, critics maintain that the construct and/or is inherently ambiguous and should be avoided …
"Fear Itself": What Legal Writers Can Learn From Fdr's Iconic Moment, Douglas E. Abrams
"Fear Itself": What Legal Writers Can Learn From Fdr's Iconic Moment, Douglas E. Abrams
Faculty Publications
This article concerns President Roosevelt's timeless faceoff with fear from the inaugural podium in the depths of the Great Depression. After surveying the dire national emergency that faced the new administration more than eight decades ago, the article draws lessons about sound rhetoric for today's legal writers.
Beyond The Basics: Lesser-Used Punctuation Marks, Jason G. Dykstra, Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff
Beyond The Basics: Lesser-Used Punctuation Marks, Jason G. Dykstra, Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff
Articles
No abstract provided.
Scaffolding On Steroids: Meeting Your Students Where They Are Is Harder Than Ever ... And Easier Than You Think, Kari L. Aamot Johnson
Scaffolding On Steroids: Meeting Your Students Where They Are Is Harder Than Ever ... And Easier Than You Think, Kari L. Aamot Johnson
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Year Of Reading, Jennifer Babcock
The Potemkin Temptation Or, The Intoxicating Effect Of Rhetoric And Narrativity On American Craft Whiskey, Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson
The Potemkin Temptation Or, The Intoxicating Effect Of Rhetoric And Narrativity On American Craft Whiskey, Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson
Publications
No abstract provided.
Judicial Audiences: A Case Study Of Justice David Watt's Literary Judgments, Elaine Craig
Judicial Audiences: A Case Study Of Justice David Watt's Literary Judgments, Elaine Craig
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Applicants to the federal judiciary identify three main audiences for their decisions: the involved and affected parties, the public, and the legal profession. This case study examines a set of decisions authored by Justice David Watt of the Ontario Court of Appeal, involving the rape, torture, murder or attempted murder of women, in which he attempts humour or uses puns, parody, stark imagery and highly stylized and colloquial language to introduce the violence, or factual circumstances surrounding the violence, in these cases. It assess these introductions in relation to the audiences judges have identified as important for their decisions. The …
Gender Justice: The Role Of Stories And Images, Linda L. Berger, Kathryn M. Stanchi
Gender Justice: The Role Of Stories And Images, Linda L. Berger, Kathryn M. Stanchi
Scholarly Works
In this book chapter, Professor Berger argues for thoughtful metaphor-making and storytelling in legal writing. Exploring legal rhetoric with an eye for gender justice, she argues metaphor and narrative shape perspective and ask the reader to join the writer in the imaginative work of seeing one thing as another. The same shift in perspective that leads to re-conception—a shift that takes advantage of metaphor and narrative’s ability to say what only they can say—is what writers aim to achieve when they use metaphor and narrative for feminist and social justice advocacy.
The Infinite Power Of Grammar, Patrick Barry
The Infinite Power Of Grammar, Patrick Barry
Articles
Good lawyers know that effective advocacy requires more than just choosing the right words; it also requires choosing the right word order. The formal term for this choice is “syntax.” But perhaps a better description comes from a 1976 essay by Joan Didion called “Why I Write.”
In it, Didion draws a helpful parallel between the arrangement of a photograph and the arrangement of a sentence. “To shift the structure of a sentence,” she notes, “alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of the camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.” Didion refers …
Scaffolding On Steroids: Meeting Your Students Where They Are Is Harder Than Ever ... And Easier Than You Think, Kari L. Aamot Johnson
Scaffolding On Steroids: Meeting Your Students Where They Are Is Harder Than Ever ... And Easier Than You Think, Kari L. Aamot Johnson
Kari L. Aamot Johnson
No abstract provided.