Academic legal writing : law review articles, student notes, and seminar papers / by Eugene Volokh ; with foreword by Judge Alex Kozinski.
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New York, N.Y. :
Foundation Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- LAW REVIEW ARTICLES AND STUDENT NOTES: THE BASICS
- The initial step: choosing a claim
- Organizing the article
- Converting practical work, such as law firm memos, into academic articles
- Budgeting your time
- Deciding what to set aside
- Choosing a title
- Summary
- SEMINAR TERM PAPERS
- Introduction : comparing seminar term papers and academic articles
- Figuring out what your instructor expects
- Finding a topic
- Budgeting your time
- Turning the paper into a publishable article
- RESEARCH
- Identifying sample cases and incidents
- Understanding the law
- Knowing when to shift from research to writing
- WRITING
- There are no lazy readers, only busy readers
- Go through many drafts
- If you see no red marks on a paragraph, go over it again
- If you need to reread something to understand it, rewrite it
- Read the draft with "new eyes"
- Finish the first draft quickly/defeat writer's block by skipping around
- React effectively to your professor's (and other editors') suggestions
- Use section headings and a table of contents to help organize your thinking
- Note down all your ideas
- Things to look for: logic
- Things to look for: writing
- Proofreading
- Editing: two exercises
- USING EVIDENCE CORRECTLY:
- Read, quote and cite the original source
- Check the studies on which you rely
- Compromise wisely
- Be careful with the terms you use
- Try to avoid foreseeable misunderstandings by readers
- Understand your source
- Handle survey evidence correctly
- When extrapolating, be explicit about your assumptions
- Make sure your comparisons make sense
- A source checking exercise
- Summary
- CITE-CHECKING OTHERS' ARTICLES
- Recommendations for cite-checkers
- Recommendations for law review editors
- PUBLISHING AND PUBLICIZING
- Consider publishing outside your school
- Working with law journal editors
- Publicizing the article before it's published
- Publicizing the published article
- Planning the next article
- ACADEMIC ETHICS
- Avoiding plagiarism
- Being candid
- Being fair and polite to your adversaries
- Being fair to the law review editors who publish your article
- Preserving confidentiality
- Treating sources fairly, and complying with human subjects protection guidelines
- Making data available
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX I: Clumsy words and phrases
- APPENDIX II: Answers to exercises
- APPENDIX III: Sample cover letters.