The New Legal Writing: The Importance Of Teaching Law Students How To Use E-Mail Professionally,
2012
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
The New Legal Writing: The Importance Of Teaching Law Students How To Use E-Mail Professionally, Kendra Huard Fershee
Maryland Law Review Online
No abstract provided.
Chapter 9: Fastcase,
2012
University of Richmond
Chapter 9: Fastcase, Gail F. Zwirner
Law Faculty Publications
In February 2005, the Virginia State Bar (VSB) Council approved plans to offer all Virginia lawyers free access to an online legal research program through a portal on the VSB's website. Then-Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr., considered access to an online research tool a high priority for Virginia attorneys and urged the VSB to provide this kind of service. On June 13, 2005, the Virginia Supreme Court adopted a formal Rule of Court directing the VSB "to contract to provide online computerized legal resea1·ch services to its members."1 In February 2006, the VSB gave its notice of intent to …
Why I Do Law Reform,
2012
University of Michigan Law School
Why I Do Law Reform, Lawrence W. Waggoner
Articles
In this Article, Professor Waggoner, newly retired, provides a retrospective on his career in law reform. He was inspired to write the Article by a number of articles by law professors explaining why they write. He contrasts law-reform work with law-review writing, pointing out that the work product of a law-reform reporter is directed to duly constituted law-making authorities. He notes that before getting into the law-reform business, he had authored or co-authored law review articles that advocated reform, but he also notes that those articles did not move the law a whit. The articles did, however, lead to his …
What Is "Good Legal Writing" And Why Does It Matter?,
2012
University of Michigan Law School
What Is "Good Legal Writing" And Why Does It Matter?, Mark Osbeck
Articles
Law schools face increasing pressure to improve instruction in practice-oriented skills. One of the most important of these skills is legal writing. The existing literature on legal writing contains various rules and suggestions as to how legal writers can improve their writing skills. Yet it lacks an adequate theoretical account of the fundamental nature of good legal writing. As a result, legal writers are left without a solid conceptual framework to ground the individual rules and suggestions. This Article attempts to fill the theoretical void in the literature by offering a systematic analysis of what it is for a legal …
Religious Shunning And The Beam In The Lawyer's Eye,
2012
University of Michigan Law School
Religious Shunning And The Beam In The Lawyer's Eye, Edward R. Becker
Articles
Some LRW professors design assignments so that students begin learning fundamental legal skills in the context of issues of particular interest to the professor-–what Sue Liemer calls “teaching the law you love.” Recent articles have explained how this might work when applied to such varying matters as multiculturalism or transactional practice. But exposing LRW students to diversity of religious belief does not appear to have found as much traction, at least in the literature. This essay describes one attempt to design a problem that grounds students in just such a larger firmament, while not distracting students (or the professor) from …
Gatekeepers Of Legal Information: Evaluating And Integrating Free Internet Legal Resources Into The Classroom,
2012
Barry University School of Law
Gatekeepers Of Legal Information: Evaluating And Integrating Free Internet Legal Resources Into The Classroom, Jootaek Lee
Barry Law Review
No abstract provided.
After The Great Recession: Law And Economics' Topics Of Invention And Arrangement And Tropes Of Style,
2012
University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law
After The Great Recession: Law And Economics' Topics Of Invention And Arrangement And Tropes Of Style, Michael D. Murray
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In the work, The Great Recession and the Rhetorical Canons of Law and Economics,' the Author examined the role of law and economics in the Great Recession of 2008 and onward by examining neoclassical and contemporary law and economics from the perspective of legal rhetoric. The modern, neoclassical school of law and economics-often labeled the "Chicago School"-has had great influence on the American economy and financial system because of its rhetorical canons: mathematical and scientific methods of analysis and demonstration; the characterization of legal phenomena as incentives and costs; the rhetorical economic concept of efficiency; and rational choice theory as …
For The Love Of Parentheticals: The Story Of Parenthetical Usage In Synthesis, Rhetoric, Economics, And Narrative Reasoning,
2012
University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law
For The Love Of Parentheticals: The Story Of Parenthetical Usage In Synthesis, Rhetoric, Economics, And Narrative Reasoning, Michael D. Murray
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
What follows is a substantive discussion of the reasons why parentheticals are rhetorically advantageous-in other words, why they are so beloved and often employed in appellate briefs and cases. I will examine the use of parentheticals in citation forms, synthesis, rhetoric, economics, and narrative reasoning in an effort to trace the attraction.
Index To The Journal Of Supreme Court History Volumes 1-35 (1976-2010),
2012
Duquesne University
Index To The Journal Of Supreme Court History Volumes 1-35 (1976-2010), Joel Fishman
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Book Review Of Fundamentals Of Government Information: Mining, Finding, Evaluating, And Using Government Resources,
2012
University of Minnesota Law School
Book Review Of Fundamentals Of Government Information: Mining, Finding, Evaluating, And Using Government Resources, Benjamin J. Keele
Library Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Law And The Argumentative Theory, 90 Or. L. Rev. 837 (2012),
2012
The John Marshall Law School, Chicago
Law And The Argumentative Theory, 90 Or. L. Rev. 837 (2012), Timothy P. O'Neill
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
Like many law professors, I have coached my share of moot court teams. As you probably know, in most competitions students either choose or are assigned one side of the case to brief. But for the oral argument segment of the competition, students must argue both sides of the case, “on-brief” and “off-brief,” often in alternate rounds.
At the end of a competition, with their heads still swimming with arguments and counterarguments, students will sometimes ask, “OK, so can you tell us which is the correct side?” I always say, “Of course I can. . . . The correct side …
The Law Review Games,
2012
Saint Louis University School of Law
The Law Review Games, Miriam A. Cherry, Paul M. Secunda
All Faculty Scholarship
A Parody in which The Hunger Games meet the law review submission process.
Books On My Desk,
2012
University of Washington School of Law
Books On My Desk, Mary Whisner
Librarians' Articles
Are there still books that reference librarians need to keep on their desks? Ms. Whisner considers this topic as well as discussing her gradual shift from using reference books in print to using their electronic counterparts
Fifty More Constitutions,
2012
University of Washington School of Law
Fifty More Constitutions, Mary Whisner
Librarians' Articles
The U.S. Constitution may get all the attention, but as Ms. Whisner points out, state constitutional law is also important to legal researchers. Unfortunately, the sources for researching state constitutions are more limited and difficult to find. She describes a web site created by the Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington School of Law that makes available sources of Washington State constitutional history.
People V. Givenni,
2012
New York Law School
The George T. Bisel Company And Its Publications (1875-2011),
2012
Duquesne University
The George T. Bisel Company And Its Publications (1875-2011), Joel Fishman
Law Faculty Publications
Research in the area of law book publishing is an open field of study. Michael Hoeflich's Antebellum Law Book Publishing (2010) is a model work on the rise of the law book industry in the first half of the nineteenth century. Philadelphia served as a major city for law book publishing throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as reflected in Morris Cohen's Bibliography of Early American Law (BEAL).
Hitting The Wall As A Legal Writer,
2012
Brooklyn Law School
Hitting The Wall As A Legal Writer, Elizabeth Fajans
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Finding Legal, Factual, And Other Information In A Digital World,
2012
University of Richmond
Finding Legal, Factual, And Other Information In A Digital World, Timothy L. Coggins
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
This updated listing of Internet sites for legal, factual, and other research offers a combination of more established sites and newer sites developed since the publication of the previous listing. The article began as a comprehensive bibliography of research and other sites for an Advanced Legal Research course and a series of continuing education sessions for legal assistants and paralegals. The current version includes sites for primary authorities, both federal and state, as well as URLs for other types of information, such as sites that assist in finding expert witnesses and biographical and background information about individuals.
Introduction: The Will To Survive,
2012
St. John's University School of Law
Introduction: The Will To Survive, Rachel H. Smith
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Pereira's Attack On Legalizing Euthanasia Or Assisted Suicide: Smoke And Mirrors,
2012
Dalhousie University - Schulich School of Law
Pereira's Attack On Legalizing Euthanasia Or Assisted Suicide: Smoke And Mirrors, Jocelyn Downie, Kenneth Chambaere, Jan L. Bernheim
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
In a paper published in Current Oncology, University of Ottawa palliative care physician Jose Pereira states that the, “laws and safeguards [in countries in which euthanasia or assisted suicide have been legalized] are regularly ignored and transgressed in all the jurisdictions, and that transgressions are not prosecuted.” He purports to demonstrate that the safeguards and controls put in place in the permissive jurisdictions are an “illusion.”
In the present paper, we expose problems with the evidence base provided and relied upon by Pereira. It should be noted that we provide only examples of each of the categories of mistakes made …
