Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, 4th

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Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, 4th

http://www.amazon.com/Academic-Legal-Writing-Articles-Student/dp/1599417502%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJXIFRPAVXBLWHBJQ%26tag%3Dflablo0a-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASI Larry Fafarman

The big dirty little secret about law journals is that the articles in most of them — including the most prestigious law journals — are not peer-reviewed or faculty-reviewed but are merely student-reviewed! And the law journals with only student review of the articles are not just educational exercises for the students — the Harvard Law Review alone was cited 4410 times (!) by federal courts alone in the decade 1970-79 alone (though the frequency of law journal citation by the courts has declined sharply). More details are in this article in my blog:

http://im-from-missouri. blogspot. com/2008/05/judge-jones-hypocritical-about-peer. html

No amount of advice on legal writing can compensate for the lack of “peer” review of articles in law journals. By “peer,” I mean any expert on the subject of the paper — the expert does not even have to be a legal professional. IMO the term should be “expert review” instead of “peer review. ”

I made up this limerick about Judge Jones and his Kitzmiller v. Dover decision, which was not “peer-reviewed” because it was not appealed:

Judge Jones once said that peer review
is needed to show that something’s true.
But that’s OK,
he didn’t say,
his Dover ruling was peer-reviewed too.

I am giving this book a big fat single star because it apparently does not recognize the lack of peer (expert) review as a serious shortcoming of typical law journals.
Rating: 1 / 5
Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, 4th
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Very helpful intro to legal writing, especially in the context of law review competitions. Don’t pass by the cute Kozinski intro.
Rating: 5 / 5
Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, 4th
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Read some of this before our law journal writing competition. . . I feel like it was definitely helpful.
Rating: 5 / 5
Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, 4th
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The book did a tremendous job preparing me to write seminar papers and work on law review journals. It also was a great guide for writing my student note. I recommend it to all law students!

-Harvard 2L
Rating: 5 / 5
Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, 4th
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Just like the title, this book is a great guide to “Academic Legal Writing. ” Step by step, the author takes you through the process of writing a publishable legal article. Every aspect is covered: from how to form a thesis to how to publicize and publish your finished product. Every law review student should read this book while writing his or her student Note.
Rating: 5 / 5
Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, 4th