Recent Scholarship

Articles

• Susan M. Chesler, Drafting in Tandem: Enhancing Collaboration Through a Novel Classroom Set-up, The Second Draft, Fall 2018, at 7.
• Ian Gallacher, Four-Finger Exercises: Practicing the Violin for Legal Writers, 15 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric: JALWD 2019 (2018).
• Russell M. Gold, Jail as Injunction, 107 Georgetown L.J. 501 (2019).
• Bart Huisman et al., Peer Feedback on Academic Writing: Undergraduate Students’ Peer Feedback Role, Peer Feedback Perceptions and Essay Performance, 43 Assessment & Eval. in Higher Ed. 955 (2018).

Books

• Deborah L. Borman, A Short & Happy Guide to Legal Writing (2019).
• Ruth Anne Robbins, Steve Johansen, & Ken Chestek, Your Client’s Story: Persuasive Legal Writing (2d ed. 2018).

Publications

Don’t miss the just-released issues of the Legal Writing Journal and The Second Draft.

Selected Works Recently Discussed on the Listservs

Lots of interesting discussions during the first quarter of 2019. Our colleagues e-chatted about policy arguments, implicit bias, decretal language (maybe just me), and many other topics. Here’s a selection of the works discussed:

• Mary Beth Beazley, Finishing the Job of Legal Education Reform, 51 Wake Forest L. Rev. 101 (2016).
• Donald R. Caster & Brian C. Howe, Taking a Mulligan: The Special Challenges of Narrative Creation in the Post-Conviction Context, 76 Md. L. Rev. 770 (2017).
• Steven J. Johansen, “What Were You Thinking?” Using Annotated Portfolios to Improve Student Assessment, 4 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 123 (1998).
• Sherri Lee Keene, Stories That Swim Upstream: Uncovering the Influence of Stereotypes and Stock Stories in Fourth Amendment Reasonable Suspicion Analysis, 76 Md. L. Rev. 747 (2017).
• Ellie Margolis, Teaching Students to Make Effective Policy Arguments in Appellate Briefs, Perspectives, Winter 2001, at 73.
• Hon. Jon O Newman, Decretal Language: Last Words of an Appellate Opinion, 70 Brook. L. Rev. (2005).
• Michael R. Smith, The Sociological and Cognitive Dimension of Policy-Based Persuasion, 22 J.L. & Pol’y 35 (2013).
• Pamela A. Wilkins, Confronting the Invisible Witness: The Use of Narrative to Neutralize Capital Jurors’ Implicit Racial Biases, 115 W. Va. L. Rev. 305 (2012).