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Teaching Legal Writing In The Law Schools (With A Special Nod To Legal Drafting), Reed Dickerson Jan 1979

Teaching Legal Writing In The Law Schools (With A Special Nod To Legal Drafting), Reed Dickerson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Legal Drafting: Writing As Thinking, Or, Talk-Back From Your Draft And How To Exploit It, Reed Dickerson Jan 1978

Legal Drafting: Writing As Thinking, Or, Talk-Back From Your Draft And How To Exploit It, Reed Dickerson

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If We Can't Teach Our Students To Write... Let's Examine Some Alternatives That May Have A Chance To Work, Michael Botein Jan 1977

If We Can't Teach Our Students To Write... Let's Examine Some Alternatives That May Have A Chance To Work, Michael Botein

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Seminar On Legal Drafting Raises Questions On Teaching, Reed Dickerson Jan 1975

Seminar On Legal Drafting Raises Questions On Teaching, Reed Dickerson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Professionalizing Legislative Drafting: A Realistic Goal?, Reed Dickerson Jan 1974

Professionalizing Legislative Drafting: A Realistic Goal?, Reed Dickerson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The teaching of skills that result in sound legislative drafting is neglected in law schools, and professionalism in legislative drafting is lacking on both the federal and state fronts. With the adoption by the American Bar Association of seven major principles relating to the drafting of federal legislation, perhaps there is more hope now that there will be a move toward professionalism.


Choosing Law Clerks In Massachusetts, Robert Braucher Nov 1973

Choosing Law Clerks In Massachusetts, Robert Braucher

Vanderbilt Law Review

About the summer of 1875" Chief Justice Horace Gray of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts "began a practice, which he continued until the end of his judicial career, of employing a young graduate of the Harvard Law School as a secretary. At first he paid the expense of this from his own purse, but before he had been many years at Washington" as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States "the Government provided for the appointment of a clerk for each of the justices of the Supreme Court. His colleagues generally appointed as their clerks stenographers …


One Approach To Teaching Legal Drafting, Reed Dickerson Jan 1965

One Approach To Teaching Legal Drafting, Reed Dickerson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Technique Of Writing Examinations, Robert Littler Jan 1964

The Technique Of Writing Examinations, Robert Littler

San Diego Law Review

Writing is a skill or a craft. It cannot be learned by study alone. It is a bit like playing the piano and playing football. If we learn it at all, we learn it by practice and by trial and criticism. There are no fixed rules; at least I know of none that cannot be successfully violated. There are certain principles on which all writers agree. It is to these I shall turn in a moment...


Legislative Drafting And The Law Schools, Reed Dickerson Jan 1955

Legislative Drafting And The Law Schools, Reed Dickerson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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