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Legal Writing

Legal Writing Prof Blog

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 15:42:31

Golden Pen Nominations Due Next Week

Posted on September 06, 2010
The Awards Committee of the Legal Writing Institute announced its call for nominations for the 2011 Golden Pen Award. Any member of LWI may nominate someone for the award. The committee asks that you submit your nominations directly to Susan...

New Board Members for Scribes - The American Society of Legal Writers

Posted on September 06, 2010
Scribes - The American Society of Legal Writers - announced the election of two new board members. Frank Wagner, the longtime clerk Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court. Mark E. Wojcik, professor at The John Marshall Law School...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Rules for Reading

Posted on September 05, 2010
"The practical rules . . . which I have to offer are: 1. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like." Ralph Waldo...

glamorous grammar

Posted on September 05, 2010
While driving around town yesterday, I heard Scott Simon on NPR interviewing Roy Peter Clark, the author of a new book, The Glamour of Grammar. You can read a transcript of the interview here. Be sure to read the comments,...

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Friday Fun

Posted on September 03, 2010
Can you make a joke about stare decisis? Sure! Click here for a cute cartoon. (mew)

Jessup Moot Court Competition

Posted on September 03, 2010
Are you coaching the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition? Or serving as a judge? Or maybe you participated as a law student? There is a group on LinkedIn for Fans of the Philip C. Jessup International Law...

laptops in the classroom

Posted on September 02, 2010
Lynn Mclain, at the University of Baltimore, has written an article entitled: Is Permitting Student Use of Laptops in Class a Good Idea? ?It Depends? ? A Variety of Approaches is Best As she explains in her abstract: "This brief...

400,000 Visits to the Legal Writing Prof Blog

Posted on September 01, 2010
A short while ago we had our 400,000th visitor to the Legal Writing Prof Blog. Thank you all for your support, contributions, and readership. The Editors

AALS Section Award Nominations

Posted on September 01, 2010
The Awards Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research invites nominations for the recipient of the annual Section Award. The award will be presented during the Section Luncheon at the AALS Annual...

Do you own copyrights in your academic work?

Posted on August 31, 2010
Justine Pila, at the University of Oxford, provides a perspective from the U.K. on the question of "Who Owns the Intellectual Property Rights in Academic Work?". As he explains it: ?In this Opinion piece I consider the ownership of intellectual...

Reminder: Nominations for the LWI Golden Pen Award Due September 15

Posted on August 30, 2010
The Awards Committee of the Legal Writing Institute announced its call for nominations for the 2011 Golden Pen Award. Any member of LWI may nominate someone for the award. The committee asks that you submit your nominations directly to Susan...

helping your law students publish

Posted on August 30, 2010
Professors Larry MacLachlan, Allen Rostron, and Nancy Levit have now posted on SSRN a little essay with advice for law students on how to publish seminar papers or law journal pieces that are not selected for publication at their own...

State-Specific Legal Research Texts

Posted on August 26, 2010
Here is a list of state-specific legal research texts published by Carolina Academic Press. If you teach legal research, you can order a complementary review copy through the publishers' website. If you are a librarian, the complete collection of state...

You know you're not the target market when ....

Posted on August 26, 2010
The other day I received this e-mail: "Wanted to let you know that from now till Labor Day, if you show your SIU ID at the Little Caesars in Carbondale. You can get 5 or more Large 1 toppings for...

Ralph Brill Has Been Teaching Legal Writing for 50 Years

Posted on August 25, 2010
This week Ralph Brill of the Chicago-Kent College of Law marked the 50th anniversary of teaching. Ralph is one of the most important figures in the legal writing community. He has played a critical role in enhancing the professionalism of...

Teachers' Manual Available for Illinois Legal Research

Posted on August 25, 2010
If you are using the second edition of Illinois Legal Research published by Carolina Academic Press, you should know that the new Teachers' Manual is now available. Contact the publisher or the author for more information. Click here for more...

National Punctuation Day is Only One Month Away!

Posted on August 24, 2010
There is only one month left until the big celebrations on September 24th, which is National Punctuation Day!. Those who celebrate National Punctuation Day include Professor Gail Stephenson (Southern University Law Center), who gives her students punctuation cookies (sugar cookies...

Peter Friedman on Plagiarism in Law School and Legal Practice

Posted on August 22, 2010
Following up on our earlier post (and Norwegian video) on the subject of plagiarism, Peter Freidman at Case Western Reserve University School of Law sent mea link to his interesting essay on plagiarism in law school and in legal practice....

comparing apples to case briefs

Posted on August 22, 2010
The other day I baked an apple crisp for the first time. I followed a cookbook?s basic recipe. The suggested variations sounded interesting, but I wanted to try to make a basic apple crisp first. It came out okay and...

Plagiarism

Posted on August 20, 2010
We've discussed this before, but the issue will always be with us. The Chronicle of Higher Education this week reports about two students who were charged with plagiarism because they took their papers straight from Wikipedia. Which leads us to...

Save the Date: The Jury Verdict Reporter Celebrates 50 Years

Posted on August 20, 2010
For many years I've included the Jury Verdict Reports among the research tools that I share with my students. It's one thing to do a closed or open research memo; it is quite another when you can also see the...

Nominations for the Golden Pen Award

Posted on August 19, 2010
The Awards Committee of the Legal Writing Institute announced its call for nominations for the 2011 Golden Pen Award. Any member of LWI may nominate someone for the award. The committee asks that you submit your nominations directly to Susan...

Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court Justices Welcome Students to the New Year

Posted on August 19, 2010
Do the judges of the highest courts in your state come to orientation sessions for new students at your school? They do in Illinois -- click here to read more about it. If the judges are not yet coming to...

Legal Writing Professors at the SEALS Conference

Posted on August 18, 2010
Many legal writing professors attended and presented at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Conference earlier this month. There were programs on moot court teams, on the status of legal writing professors, on how to use research assistants effectively...

Deadline Coming Soon to Submit Poster Proposals for AALS Meeting in San Francisco

Posted on August 18, 2010
Here's a reminder about the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research, which sponsors posters every year to be displayed at the AALS annual conference in January. These posters provide a great opportunity for authors...

Rutgers?Camden has announced the

Posted on August 16, 2010
Rutgers?Camden has announced the publication of legal writing professor Sarah Ricks?s new casebook, Current Issues in Constitutional Litigation: Roles of the Courts, Attorneys, and Administrators (Carolina Academic Press, 2010). This book is part of the new Context and Practice series...

User Guides to Wexis

Posted on August 14, 2010
The LRW professors at the University of Akron have created User Guides for WestlawNext and LexisNexis. They are generously offering the free use of these guides to anyone who would find them helpful and asked us to post this link....

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