Recent Scholarship
November 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019
Douglas E. Abrams, References in Movies to Judicial Opinions and Written Advocacy: Part II, 75 J. Mo. B. 297 (Nov.-Dec. 2019).
Janet Ainsworth, Killer Apps for the Practice of Law: Past, Present, and Future, 49 Cumb. L. Rev. 273 (2018-2019).
Jennie Brickera, Paying Attention: Are We Too Distracted to Practice Law?, 80 Or. St. B. Bull. 18 (Dec. 2019).
Katherine A. Gustafson, From Self-Assessment to Professional Effectiveness: Five Steps to Teaching Students to Effectively Self-Assess, 88 Miss. L. J. Supra 49 (2019).
Tiffany Jeffers, The Choice to Stay in the “Pink Ghetto,” 23 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 41 (2019).
Sarah Lamdan, When Westlaw Fuels ICE Surveillance: Legal Ethics in the Era of Big Data Policing, 43 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 225 (2019).
Adam Lamparello, Curricular Integration: The Missing Element in Legal Education, 32:2 The Second Draft 40 (Fall 2019).
Terri LeClercq, What’s a Writing Specialist Good for Anyway?, 32:2 The Second Draft 19 (Fall 2019).
Gerald Lebovits, Thoughts on Legal Writing from the Greatest of Them All: Stephen King, 91 N.Y. St. B.J. 65 (Dec. 2019).
Kathleen Dillon Narko, How Do I Look?: Design Your Documents for Greater Legibility and Persuasion, 33 Chicago B. Ass’n Rec., 38 (Nov./Dec. 2019).
Neil Pedersen, Advice for Writing and Problem-Solving, 61 Orange County L. 54 (Dec. 2019).
Nantiya Ruan, Papercuts: Hierarchical Microaggressions in Law Schools, 31 Hastings
Women’s L. J. 3 (Winter 2020).
Amanda l. Sholtis, Say What?: A How-to Guide to Providing Formative Assessment to Law Students Through Live Critique, 49 Stet. L. Rev. 1 (Fall 2019).
D’Andra Millsap Shu & Katherine T. Vukadin, Catching On: How Post-Critique Assessments Deepen Understanding and Improve Legal Writing, 32:2 The Second Draft 35 (Fall 2019).
Michael R. Smith, Traits of Credibility, Part 2: Honesty, 42 Wy. Law. 44 (Dec. 2019).
Karen J. Sneddon, Brain Breaks for the Legal Writing Classroom, 32:2 The Second Draft 46 (Fall 2019).
Amy H. Soled, Another Tool (the Case Parenthetical) for Teaching Legal Analysis, 32:2 The Second Draft 24 (Fall 2019).
Rachel G. Stabler, Screen Time Limits: Reconsidering Presentation Software for the Law School Classroom, 23 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 173 (2019).
Eric Stravitz & Keith Mitnik, The Use of Language for Trial Lawyers and Their Clients, Trial Reporter (Md.) 60 (Special Issue 2019).
Ken Swift, Give It a Try, It’s Not So Bad: Utilizing Distance Learning in First-Year Legal Research and Writing Courses, 32:2 The Second Draft 30 (Fall 2019).
Genevieve B. Tung, Collaboration Between Legal Writing Faculty and Law Librarians: Two Surveys, 23 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 215 (2019).
Gerald VandeWalle, et al., A Tribute to Patti Alleva, 94 N.D. L. Rev. 305 (2019).
Emily Zimmerman & Daniel M. Filler, One Challenge Facing the Discipline of Legal Writing: The Connection Between Discipline and Status, 23 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 38 (2019).
Think Like an Ad Exec, 321 N.J. Law. 11 (Dec. 2019).
<<Unknown Symbol>> of Emojis: They Are Communications, But of What?, 33 Prob. & Prop. 64 (Nov.-Dec. 2019).
January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020
Douglas E. Abrams, Generalist Judges and Advocates’ Jargon, 76 J. Mo. B. 27 (Jan.-Feb. 2020).
Elizabeth E. Berenguer, The Legal Scholar’s Guidebook (2020).
John Campbell, Ex Machina: Technological Disruption and the Future of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Writing, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-4 (Feb. 25, 2020), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/
Commission on the Future of Legal Education, American Bar Association, Principles for Legal Education and Licensure in the 21st Century: Principles and Commentary (2020).
Bridge J. Crawford et al., Teaching with Feminist Judgments: A Global Conversation, 38 Law & Ineq. 1 (Winter 2020).
Rachel Croskery-Roberts, Ten Years In: A Critical View of the Past, Present, and Future of Skills Education at UC Irvine Law School, 10 UC Irvine L. Rev. 469 (Jan. 2020).
Jason G. Dykstraa, Teasing the Arc of Electric Spark: Fostering and Teaching Creativity in the Law School Curriculum, 20 Wyo. L. Rev. 1 (2020).
Lynn Entrikin et al., Treating Professionals Professionally: Requiring Security of Position for All Skills-Focused Faculty Under ABA Accreditation Standard 405(C) and Eliminating 405(D), 98 Or. L. Rev. 1 (2020).
Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff, Start the New Year Off Write Editing Better, 63 Advocate (Idaho) 30 (Jan. 2020).
Elizabeth Ruiz Frost, Parallelism Can Change Both Meaning and Tone, 80 Or. St. B. Bull. 15 (Feb./Mar. 2020).
E. Scott Fruehwald, How to Teach Lawyers, Judges, and Law Students Critical Thinking: Millions Saw the Apple Fall, but Newton Asked Why (2020).
Susan Greene, Mindful Practices for Law Practices, 46 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 53 (2020).
Melissa N. Henkea, When Your Plate is Already Full: Efficient and Meaningful Outcomes Assessment for Busy Law Schools, 71 Mercer L. Rev. 529 (Winter 2020).
Ron Jenkins, Why We Must Get Back to Basics in Teaching Composition, The Chronicle of Higher Education (Jan. 29, 2020), https://www.chronicle.com/
Peter Nemerovski, Help Wanted: An Empirical Study of LRW Hiring, Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (February 19, 2020), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/
John H. Ridge, Spot the Errors: A Writing Analysis, 43 Wyo. Law. 34 (Feb. 2020).
Suzanne E. Rowe, As Language Evolves, Pronouns Leap Forward, 80 Or. St. B. Bull. 17 (Jan. 2020).
Emily J. Stolzenberg, Justice, Plain and Simple: A Report of the 2019 Siben & Siben Conference on Plain Language and Simplification, 58 Fam. Ct. Rev. 174 (Jan. 2020).
Anthony Volini, A Perspective on Technology Education for Law Students, 36 Santa Clara High Tech. L.J. 33 (Feb. 2020).
Selected Works Discussed on Listservs, November 2019 – present
Ruggero J. Aldisert, Opinion Writing (3d ed. 2012).
Daniel L. Barnett, Putting Skills Into Practice: Legal Problem Solving and Writing for New Lawyers (2014).
Nicole Black, Lawyers Have a Bevy of Advanced and AI-enhanced Legal Research Tools at Their Fingertips, ABA Journal (Nov. 22, 2019), https://www.abajournal.com/
Deborah L. Borman, A Short & Happy Guide to Legal Writing (2019).
Deborah L. Borman & Dana Hill, Freeze! Using Theatre Improvisation Techniques to Practice Oral Argument, The Law Teacher (Fall 2012).
Mary Bowman, Legal Writing as Office Housework?, 68 J. Legal Educ. ____ (2020), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/
Megan E. Boyd & Adam Lamparello, Legal Writing for the “Real World”: A Practical Guide to Success, 46 John Marshall L. Rev. 487 (2013).
Heidi K. Brown, Are You a Lawyer with Public Speaking Anxiety? You Are Not Alone?, ABA Journal (Mar. 1, 2019), https://www.abajournal.com/
Heidi K. Brown, Untangling Fear in Lawyering: A Four-Step Journey Toward Powerful Advocacy (2019).
Heidi K. Brown, The Introverted Lawyer A Seven Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy (2017).
Heidi K. Brown, Converting Benchslaps to Backslaps, 11 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric: JALWD 109 (2014).
Timothy Casey, Reflective Practice in Legal Education: The Stages of Reflection, 20 Clinical L. Rev. 317 (Spring 2014).
Bruce Ching, Echoes of 9/11: Rhetorical Analysis of Presidential Statements in the “War on Terror,” Seton Hall L. Rev (written March 9, 2020; publication forthcoming), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb, There Are No Outsiders Here: Rethinking Intersectionality as Hegemonic Discourse in the Age of #MeToo, 16 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric: JALWD 1 (2019).
Leslie Culver, White Doors, Black Footsteps: Leveraging “White Privilege” to Benefit Law Students of Color, 21 J. Gender, Race and Just. 37 (Feb. 1, 2017).
Tom Dart, Texas Clings to Unconstitutional, Homophobic Laws – And It's Not Alone, The Guardian (June 1, 2019), https://www.theguardian.com/
Kirsten K. Davis, He, She, or They: Thinking Rhetorically About Gender and Personal Pronouns, Appellate Advocacy Blog (Sept. 5, 2019), https://lawprofessors.typepad.
Susan David deMaine, From Disability to Usability in Online Instruction, 106 Law Libr. J. 531 (2014).
Mary Dunnewold, A Tale of Two Issues: “Applying Law to Facts” Versus “Deciding What the Rule Should Be,” 11 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 12 (Fall 2002).
Elizabeth Fajans, Mary Falk & Elizabeth Shapo, Writing for Law Practice: Advanced Legal Writing (Foundation Press, 3d ed., 2015).
Judith D. Fischer, Bareheaded and Barefaced Counsel: Courts React to Unprofessionalism in Lawyers’ Papers, 31 Suffolk L. Rev. 1 (1997).
E. Scott Fruehwald, Understanding and Overcoming Cognitive Biases for Lawyers and Law Students: Becoming a Better Lawyer Through Cognitive Science (2018).
Ross Guberman, Judges Speaking Softly: What They Long for When They Read, 44 Litigation 1 (American Bar Association, Summer 2018).
Ross Guberman, Point Taken: How to Write Like the World’s Best Judges (2015).
Harry Guiness, How to Edit Your Own Writing, N.Y. Times (April 7, 2020), https://www.nytimes.com/2020/
Stephanie Roberts Hartung, Using Legislative Intent as Reasoning in Legal Analysis, 23 The Second Draft 7 (Fall 2008).
Michael J. Higdon, The Legal Reader: An Exposé, 43 N.M. L. Rev. 77 (2013).
Vivian Hunt, et al., Delivering Through Diversity, McKinsey & Company (Jan. 2018), https://www.mckinsey.com/
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (2007).
Adam Lamparello, The Flaws of Implicit Bias -- and the Need for Empirical Research in Legal Scholarship and in Legal Education (March 19, 2020), http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/
Steven Lubet, Bullying from the Bench, 5 Greenbag 2d 11 (Autumn 2001).
Joseph P. Mastrosimone, Benchslaps, 2017 Utah L. Rev. 331 (2017).
Rusell L. McClain, Helping Our Students Reach Their Full Potential: The Insidious Consequences of Stereotype Threat, 17 Rutgers Race & the Law Rev. 1 (2016).
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb, In Search of the Common Law Inside the Black Female Body, 114 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online 187 (2019).
Mitchell Nathanson, The Happy Lawyer (2012).
Dyane O’Leary, Flipped Out, Plugged in, and Wired Up: Fostering Success for Students with ADHD in the New Digital Law School, 45 Cap. U. L. Rev. 289 (2017), http://ssrn.com/abstract=
Amanda Peters, The Meaning, Measure, and Misuse of Standards of Review, 13 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 233 (Spring 2009).
Jarrod F. Reich, Capitalizing on Healthy Lawyers: The Business Case for Law Firms to Promote and Prioritize Lawyer Well-Being, 6 The Practice (March/April 2020), https://thepractice.law.
Ruth Anne Robbins, Painting with Print: Incorporating Concepts of Typographic and Layout Design into the Text of Legal Writing Documents, Legal Communication & Rhetoric JALWD (Fall 2019).
Suzanne Rowe, The Rising Tide in the Legal Writing Community: Lifting All Boats or Changing Climate?, 24 Legal Writing: Journal of the Legal Writing Institute ___ (2020), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/
Suzanne Rowe, The Elephant in the Room: Responding to Racially Charged Words, 15 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric: JALWD 263 (Fall 2018).
Theresa K. Tarves, Legal Education and AI, a chapter in the book called Law Librarianship in the Age of AI (American Library Association 2019).
Amy Vorenberg, Preparing for Practice: Legal Analysis and Writing in Law School’s First Year (2014).
Debra Cassens Weiss, New California Bar Study Finds Disparities in Lawyer Discipline, ABA J. (Nov. 18, 2019). (The California bar’s own summary of the study can be accessed at: http://board.calbar.ca.gov/
Carolyn Williams, #CriticalReading #WickedProblem, 44 S. Ill. L. J. 179 (2020), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/
COVID-19-Related Publications
Materials for Teaching Online, Legal Writing Institute, https://www.lwionline.org/
Sara J. Berman, Legal Education Mobilizes: Online Learning This Week, AccessLex Blog (March 23, 2020), https://www.accesslex.org/
Paul Elie, (Against) Virus as Metaphor, The New Yorker (March 19, 2020), https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/against-the-coronavirus-as-metaphor?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagenewsletter_Daily_ZZ&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny
Benjamin Glassman, Telephonic Oral Arguments: Tips for Advocates, Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog, https://www.sixthcircuitappellateblog.com/
Susan Landrum, Six Strategies for Successful Online Learning, Law School Success (March 15, 2020), https://
Doug Lederman, Evaluating Teaching During the Pandemic, Inside Higher Ed (April 8, 2020), https://www.insidehighered.
Josh Margolin, FBI Warns of Potential Surge in Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans Amid Coronavirus, ABC News (March 27, 2020), https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-
Tom McParland, “Maiden Voyage” on a Stormy Sea: 2nd Circuit Holds 1st Set of Oral Argument Teleconferences in Face of Coronavirus, N.Y. L. J. (March 19, 2020), https://www.law.com/
Stephanie Moore & Charles B. Hodges, So You Want to Temporarily Teach Online, Inside Higher Ed (March 11, 2020), https://www.insidehighered.
Angela Morris, Judges Rush to Learn Video Conferencing as Shelter-in-Place Orders Spread Across Texas Metros, Texas Lawyer (March 24, 2020), https://www.law.com/
Abigail Perdue, Back to the Future, Conducting Virtual Oral Arguments, Teach Law Better (March 16, 2020), https://teachlawbetter.com/
Katharina Pistor, Law in the Time of COVID-19 (2020), https://scholarship.law.
Matthew Stiegler, Tips for Third Circuit Telephone Oral Arguments, CA3blog, http://ca3blog.com/oral-
Cora True-Frost, Parenting in the Shadow of Scare Ventilators, Newsday (March 28, 2020), https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit,Video-Conferenced Arguments Guide, https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/
The Coronavirus Survival Guide in the National Jurist
Online Learning to the Rescue: Are You Ready for It?, National Jurist 51 (Spring 2020).
How to Excel in an Online Class: Answers from the Experts, National Jurist 52 (Spring 2020).
How to Excel in an Online Class: 5 Truths About Distance Learning, National Jurist 54 (Spring 2020).
What an Online Student Experience Is Really Like, National Jurist 56 (Spring 2020).
Tara Roslin, The Self-Care Guide for Law School Students, National Jurist 57 (Spring 2020).
Rosario Lozada, How to Stay Healthy, Positive, and Productive in the Time of Covid-19, National Jurist 511 (Spring 2020).