Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review (University Casebook)

Designed to help law students write and publish articles, this text provides detailed instructions for every aspect of the law school writing, research, and publication process. Topics covered include law review articles and student notes, seminar term papers, how to shift from research to writing, cite-checking others work, publishing, and publicizing written works. The book helps law students and everyone else involved in academic legal writing: professors save time and effort communicating basic points to students; law schools satisfy the American Bar Association's second- and third-year writing requirements; and law reviews receive better notes from their staff. The Fourth Edition adds examples drawn from successful student notes, coupled with detailed explanations of what makes the examples effective, and how they could have been made still more effective. It also elaborates further on how one can research a topic more comprehensively than many students do, both by finding a broader range of examples and applications, and by investigating the key cases more deeply. 1. Finding what to write about (the claim) 2. Test suites : making prescriptive claims more sound 3. Writing the introduction 4. Writing the "background" section 5. Writing the proof of the claim 6. The conclusion, and after the conclusion 7. Finishing the first draft, and the zeroth draft 8. Tips on researching 9. Editing : general principles 10. Editing : getting help from your faculty advisor 11. Writing : logical problems to watch for 12. Writing : paragraph-level problems to watch for 13. Writing : sentence/clause problems to watch for 14. Writing : word/phrase problems to watch for 15. Writing : rhetorical problems to watch for 16. Editing : three exercises 17. Using evidence correctly 18. Writing and researching : timeline and summary 19. A sample highly successful student article 20. Turning practical work into articles 21. Writing seminar term papers 22. Cite-checking others' articles 23. Publishing and publicizing 24. Entering writing competitions 25. Getting on law review 26. Academic ethics. "Professor Volokh offers law students precisely the kind of useful advice about academic legal writing that they are most likely to need and least likely to get in law school. His guide is lively, practical, and entirely unique"--Book Jacket Resource added for the Paralegal program 101101.