Recent Scholarship

Articles

• Heidi Brown, Breaking Bad Briefs, 41 J. of the Leg. Profession 259 (Spring 2017)
• Charles R. Calleros, U.S. Unconscionability and Article 1171 of the New French Civil Code: Achieving Balance in Statutory Regulation and Judicial Intervention, 45 Ga. J. Int’l Comp. L. 259 (2017)
• Kenneth Dean Chestek, Fear and Loathing in Persuasive Writing: An Empirical Study of the Effects of the Negativity Bias, 14 Leg. Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD 1 (2017)
• Leslie P. Culver, White Doors, Black Footsteps: Leveraging White Privilege To Benefit Law Students of Color, 21 J. of Gender, Race & Justice  (2017)
• Suzanne Ehrenberg, Teaching the Neglected Art of Persuasive Writing, 26 Leg. Ed. Rev. Art. 12 (2017) (http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ler/vol26/iss1/12/)
• Scott Fraley, A Primer on Essential Classical Rhetoric for Practicing Attorneys, 14 Leg. Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD 99 (2017)
• Michael Higdon, Polygamous Marriage, Monogamous Divorce, 67 Duke L. J. 79 (2017)
• Joseph Kimble, The Doctrine of the Last Antecedent: A Case Study in Flimsiness, 14 Leg. Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD 129 (2017)
• Kristen Murray, You Know What I Meant: The Science Behind Email and Intent, 14 Leg. Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD 119 (2017)
• Christine M. Venter, The Case Against Oral Argument: The Effects of Confirmation Bias on the Outcome of Selected Cases in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, 14 Leg. Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD 45 (2017)
• Beth Hirschfelder Wilensky, Judge Kozinski Objects, 14 Leg. Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD 81 (2017)

Books:

• Heidi Brown, The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy (ABA Publishing 2017)
• Susan DeJarnatt and Barbara Ferman, “Preserving Education as a Collective Good,” in The Fight for America’s Schools: Grassroots Organizing in Education (2017)
• Tessa Dyart and Leslie Southwick, Winning on Appeal: Better Briefs and Oral Argument (3d ed., NITA 2017)
• Linda H. Edwards, The Doctrine/Skills Divide: Legal Education's Self-Inflicted Wound (Carolina Academic Press 2017)
• Christopher D. Soper, Cristina D. Lockwood, Bradley Clary & Pamela Lysaght, Successful Analysis and Writing: The Fundamentals (4th ed., West 2017)

Recently Discussed on the ALWD/LWI Listservs

• Charles Calleros, Reading, Writing, and Rhythm: A Whimsical, Musical Way of Thinking About Teaching Legal Method and Writing, 5 Leg. Writing 1 (1999) Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1464814
• Catherine Martin Christopher, Putting Legal Writing on the Tenure Track: One School's Experience, Columbia J. of Gender & Law, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2673588
• Linda H. Edwards, Telling Stories in the Supreme Court: Voices Briefs and the Role of Democracy in Constitutional Deliberation, 29 Yale J. of Law & Feminism 29 (2017) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3040849
• Molly Warner Lien, Technocentricism and the Soul of the Common-Law Lawyer, 48 Am. U. L. Rev. 85 (1998)
• Ellie Margolis and Kristen E. Murray, Using Information Literacy to Prepare Practice-Ready Graduates, 39 U. of Hawaii L. Rev. 2016 (available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2855868)
• Ellie Margolis and Kristen E. Murray, Teaching Research Using an Information Literacy Paradigm, 22 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Res. and Writing 1 (2014) (available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2467731)
• Ellie Margolis and Kristen E. Murray, Say Goodbye to the Books: Information Literacy as the New Legal Research Paradigm, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-34 (available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2125278)
• Susan Nevelow Mart, Every Algorithm has a POV, AALL Spectrum (Sept/Oct 2017)