Selected Publications from April 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020

Douglas E. Abrams, Effective Legal Writing:  A Guide for Students and Practitioners (2d ed. 2020).

Douglas E. Abrams, Mincing No Words:  When the Court’s Opinion Criticizes an Advocate’s Writing, 76 J. Mo. B. 77 (Mar.-Apr. 2020).

Am. Bar Ass’n, Legal Writing Sourcebook (J. Lyn Entrikin & Mary B. Trevor, eds., 3d ed. 2020).  Chapters covered:
1.     Overview of Legal Writing in Law Schools
2.     Developing a Comprehensive Legal Writing Curriculum
3.     Pedagogical Methods in First-Year Courses
4.     Assessment and Grading
5.     Faculty Status and Governance
6.     Ensuring Quality Instruction
7.     Law Students Who Speak English as a Second Language
8.     Serving Students with Special Needs
9.     Legal Writing Specialists and Writing Centers
10.   Innovations Inside and Outside the LRW Classroom

Cindy Thomas Archer, Hamilton’s Take on Legal Writing Faculty and Law School Leadership, 24 Legal Writing J. 41 (2020).

Rachel Arnow-Richman, Integrated Learning, Integrated Faculty, 92 Temp. L. Rev. 745 (Summer 2020). 

Paolo Butturini and Susan L. DeJarnatt, Taking on the Role of Lawyer: Transactional Skills, Transnational Issues, and Commercial Law, 44 S. Ill. L. J. 225 (2020).

Michael J. Cedrone, Cicero and Barack Obama: How to Unite the Republic Without Losing Your Head, 20 Nev. L.J. 1177 (2020).

Catherine Martin Christopher, Normalizing Struggle, 73 Ark. L. Rev. 27 (2020).

John Cook, Taking a Shot at the (Unmodified) Title: The Value of the Title “Professor of Law” for Improving the Status of Legal Writing Faculty and ALWD/LWI Survey Trends, 24 Legal Writing J. 65 (2020).

Abbie Nordhagen Cziok, Author Says So Long, Farewell, Leaves Us With a Few of Her Favorite Themes, 45 Mont. Law. 26 (Winter 2019-2020).

Kirsten K. Davis, [Classical] Lawyers As [Digital] Public Speakers:  Classical Rhetoric and Lawyer Digital Public Commentary, 20 Nev. L.J. 1137 (Spring 2020).

Kirsten A. Dauphinais, Quintilian’s Curriculum, 20 Nev. L.J. 917 (Spring 2020).

Jason G. Dykstra, Teasing the Arc of Electric Spark:  Fostering and Teaching Creativity in the Law School Curriculum, 20 Wyo. L. Rev. 1 (2020).

Tessa L. Dysart, On Semicolons and Interrobangs, Appellate Advocacy Blog (December 21, 2020), https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/appellate_advocacy/2020/12/on-semicolons-and-interrobangs.html.

Elisabeth Egan, Is Pam Jenoff a Law Professor Moonlighting as a Novelist, or Vice Versa?  You Decide, N.Y. Times (Dec. 31, 2020), https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/books/review/the-diplomats-wife-pam-jenoff.html?fbclid=IwAR1ixtfKL0Sy9ARwfOn3BkHvHDe-zwvS4evgtTv1bkGNLJRDm0MxIM-esGc.

J. Lyn Entrikin et al., Treating Professionals Professionally:  Requiring Security of Position for All Skill-Focused Faculty Under ABA Accreditation Standard 405(C) and Eliminating 405(D), 98 Or. L. Rev. 1 (2020).

Mary Walsh Fitzpatrick & Rosemary Queenan, Professional Identity Formation, Leadership and Exploration of Self, UMKC L. Rev. (2020) (publication forthcoming), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3719354.

Joe Fore, Write Like a Spy:  Using U.S. Intelligence Guidelines to Reinforce the Lessons of Predictive Legal Writing, 28 Perspectives 15 (Spring 2020).

Ian Gallacher, Here’s Tae Us, Wha’s Like Us:  Some Thoughts on the Future of Legal Writing in American Law Schools, 24 Legal Writing J. 29 (2020).

Bryan A. Garner, Prizing Piquancy, 106 A.B.A. J. 28 (May 2020).

Deborah S. Gordon and Kait O’Donnell, The Committed Legal Writer, 24 Legal Writing J. 365 (2020).

Emily Grant, Threading the Needle:  Are We Modeling Inappropriate Use of Humor for Our Students?, 28 Perspectives 9 (Spring 2020).

Rachel Gurvich & Beth Wilensky, How to Become a Legal Writing Professor, Summary, Judgment (June 30, 2020).  https://www.summarycommajudgment.com/blog/how-to-become-a-legal-writing-professor.

Rebekah Hanley, Want to Be a Better Writer? Read!: Enjoying Others’ Work Can Improve Your Own, 80 Or. St. B. Bull. 15 (May 2020).

Mark A. Hannah & Susie Salmon, Against the Grain:  The Secret Role of Dissents in Integrating Rhetoric Across the Curriculum, 20 Nev. L.J. 935 (Sprin 2020).

David Hricik & Karen J. Sneddon, The 10 Principles of Plain English, 1 Md. B.J. 84 (2020).

Justice Michael B. Hyman, Write for the Target Reader, 108 Ill. B.J. 42 (June 2020).

Jeffrey Jackson and David Cleveland, Legal Writing:  A History from the End of the Civil War to 1930, 24 Legal Writing J. 81 (2020).

Cody J. Jacobs, The “Other” Market, 92 Temp. L. Rev. 765 (2020).

Lori D. Johnson & Melissa Love Koenig, Walk the Line:  Aristotle and the Ethics of Narrative, 20 Nev. L.J. 1037 (Spring 2020).

Alicia Kelly & Richard K. Greenstein, Disrupting Hierarchies in Legal Education:  Commemorating the Impact of the Freedman Fellow Program Foreword, 92 Temp. L. Rev. 713 (Summer 2020).

Gerald Lebovits, Take a Needed Pandemic Break!  Thoughts on Legal Writing from William Zinsser, 56 Tenn. B.J. 32 (May 2020).

Gerald Lebovits, Thoughts on Legal Writing from the Greatest of Them All:  Joseph M. Williams – Part I, 92 N.Y. St. B.J. 62 (Apr. 2020).

Gerald Lebovits, Thoughts on Legal Writing from the Greatest of Them All:  Joseph M. Williams – Part II, 92 N.Y. St. B.J. 61 (May 2020).

Gerald Lebovits, Thoughts on Legal Writing from the Greatest of Them All:  David Mellinkoff, 92 N.Y. St. B.J. (June/July 2020).

Jaime Lee, From Socrates to Selfies:  Legal Education and the Metacognitive Revolution, 12 Drexel L. Rev. 227 (2020).

Rosario Lozada, Cultivate a Community with Values, Vulnerability, and Gratitude 28 Perspectives 5 (Spring 2020).

Jody Marcucci, Susan DeJarnatt: The Accidental Jurist, 6 LWI Lives 1 (June 2020).

Brooke Ellinwood McDonough, Candace Centeno: Teaching, Directing, Dean-ing, Volunteering, and Zooming in Pennsylvania!, 6 LWI Lives 1 (June 2020).

Patricia Grande Montana, The Power of a Positive Tweet, 24 Legal Writing J. 77 (2020).

Patricia Montana & Elyse Pepper, Getting It Right By Writing It Wrong:  Embracing Faulty Reasoning as a Teaching Tool, 46 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 369 (2020).

Francis J. Mootz III, Corpus Linguistics and Vico's Lament: Against Vivisectional Jurisprudence, 20 Nev. L.J. 845 (2020).

Sarah J. Morath, Book Review, 24 Legal Writing J. 421 (2020) (reviewing Deborah L. Borman, A Short And Happy Guide To Legal Writing (2019)).

Peter Nemerovski, Help Wanted: An Empirical Study of Law Hiring, 24 Legal Writing J. 315 (2020).

Gina Nerger, Two Wrongs Can Make a Right:  Introducing Flawed Samples for Effective Counter-Modeling, 28 Perspectives 19 (Spring 2020).

Julie A. Oseid, “Liven Their Life Up Just A Little Bit”: Good Pacing Persuades Judges, 24 Legal Writing J. 239 (2020).

Robert W. Parnacott, Professor Prufrock Revisited:  Poetry and the Law, 89 J. Kan. B.A. 20 (Apr. 2020).

Susan E. Provenzano & Brian N. Larson, Civil Procedure as a Critical Discussion, 20 Nev. L.J. 967 (Spring 2020).

Nancy B. Rapoport, Training Law Students to Maintain Civility in Their Law Practices As a Way to Improve Public Discourse, 98 N.C. L. Rev. 1143 (June 2020).

Donald L. Revell & Jessica Vapnek, Gender-Silent Legislative Drafting in a Non-binary World, 48 Cap. U. L. Rev. 103 (Spring 2020).

Rafi Reznik, The Auteur as Editor, 73 Stan. L. Rev. Online 11 (May 2020). 

Joyce Rosenberg, Mind Your Virtual Manners:  A Brief Guide to Social Graces in Online Writing, 89 J. Kan. B.A. 41 (Apr. 2020). 

Clarke Rountree, Kairos and American Legal Praxis, 20 Nev. L.J. 855 (2020).

Suzanne Rowe, The Rising Tide in the Legal Writing Community:  Lifting All Boats or Changing Climate?, 24 Legal Writing J. 1 (2020).

Christopher Ryan & Meghan Dawe, Mind the Gap:  Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy, Georgetown J. Legal Ethics (Sept. 24, 2020) (publication forthcoming), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3699208
Joel Schumm, Professional Fulfillment without Tenure, 24 Legal Writing J. 59 (2020).

Coleen Garrity Settineri, Improving the Legal Writing Adjunct Experience: Lessons from Lawyer-to-Lawyer Mentoring Literature, 24 Legal Writing J. 71 (2020).

Jennifer Sheppard, Transitioning To A Collaborative Legal Writing Program: Management Principles To Apply When “Take Me To Your Leader” Is No Longer Applicable, 24 Legal Writing J. 159 (2020).

Elizabeth Sherowski, A New Way to Teach Secondary Source Research:  Source Discovery, 28 Perspectives 32 (Spring 2020).

Michael R. Smith, Traits of Credibility, Part 3:  The Tension Between Zeal and Good Will, 43 Wyo. Law. 48 (Apr. 2020).

Karen J. Sneddon, More Than IRAC:  Acronyms to Support the Writing Process, 28 Perspectives 26 (Spring 2020).

Amy H. Soled, Legal Writing Professors, Salary Disparities, and the Impossibility of “Improved Status,” 24 Legal Writing J. 47 (2020).

Nancy Soonpaa, From a Gleam to Maturity:  The Developmental Stages of a Legal Writing Program, 24 Legal Writing J. 23 (2020).

Charles Splawn, Teaching Legal Analysis:  A Tale from the Front, 27 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing (May 15, 2020).

Meredith Stange, Voting Like a Duck: Reflecting on a Year of Legal Writing Voting Rights, 24 Legal Writing J. 55 (2020).

Laura C. Tharney, Canons or Coin Tosses:  Time-Tested Methods of Interpreting Statutory Language, 44 Seton Hall. Legis. J. 285 (2020).

The Bluebook:  A Uniform System of Citation (Harvard Law Review Ass’n et al., eds., 21st ed. 2020).

Jonathan I. Tietz, On Lawyers and Copy Editors, 118 Mich. L. Rev. 1307 (Apr. 2020).

Elizabeth Adamo Usman, Book Review, 24 Legal Writing J. 413 (2020) (reviewing Francis Fukayama, Identity: The Demand For Dignity And The Politics Of Resentment (2018)).

Eliza S. Walker, “Terms of Heart”:  Judicial Style in Obergefell v. Hodges, 61 B.C. L. Rev. 1935 (May 2020).

Nancy A. Wanderer, Legal Writing and Creativity:  Polar Opposites or Perfect Partners, 35 Me. B.J. 80 (2020). 

Laura A. Webb, Speaking the Truth:  Supporting Authentic Advocacy with Professional Identity Formation, 20 Nev. L.J. 1079 (Spring 2020).

Melissa H. Weresh, The History of American Bar Association Standard 405(D):  One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, 24 Legal Writing J. 125 (2020).

Melissa H. Weresh, Ethos at the Intersection:  Classical Insights for Contemporary Application, 20 Nev. L.J. 877 (Spring 2020).

Jennifer Will, Call It An E-Convo: When An E-Memo Isn’t Really A Memo At All, 24 Legal Writing J. 269 (2020).

Austin Martin Williams, Getting the Most Out of the Last Five Minutes of Class, 28 Perspectives 36 (Spring 2020).

Selected Works Discussed on Listservs (April 1, 2020 - present)

Tiffany Atkins, Amplifying Diverse Voices in the Law School Classroom, 31 The Second Draft 10 (Fall 2018).

Mary Beth Beazley, The Self-Graded Draft: Teaching Students to Revise Using Guided Self-Critique, 3 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 175 (1997).

Elizabeth Berenguer, The Legal Scholar’s Guidebook (2020).

Matthew Butterick, Typography for Lawyers (2d ed. 2018).

Leonore Carpenter, The Next Phase: Positioning the Post-Obergefell LGBT Rights Movement to Bridge the Gap between Formal and Lived Equality, 13 Stan. J. C.R. & C.L. 255 (2017).

Jessica L. Clark & Kristen E. Murray, Scholarly Writing:  Ideas, Examples, and Execution (2010).

Tessa Dysart, When Having A Heart for Justice in Not Enough, Appellate Advocacy Blog (March 2019), https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/appellate_advocacy/2019/03/when-having-a-heart-for-justice-is-not-enough.html.

Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis (2015).

J. Lyn 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).

Elizabeth Fajans & Mary R. Falk, Scholarly Writing for Law Students (5th ed. 2017).

Joe Fore, “A Court Would Likely (60-75%) Find . . .”:  Defining Probability Expressions in Predictive Legal Analysis, 16 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric 49 (2019).

Scott Fruehwald, Rational Charitable Giving, Legal Skills Prof Blog (May 5, 2020), https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legal_skills/2020/05/rational-charitable-giving.html.

Adam Garfinkle, The Erosion of Deep Literacy, 44 National Affairs (Spring 2020), https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-erosion-of-deep-literacy.

Adam Gershowitz & Laura Killinger, The State (Never) Rests: How Excessive Prosecutor Caseloads Harm Criminal Defendants, 105 Nw. U. L. Rev. 261 (2011).

Jane Kent Gionfriddo, Thinking Like A Lawyer: The Heuristics of Case Synthesis, 40 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 1 (2007).

Gerald Graff & Cathy Birkenstein, They Say I Say:  The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (2009).

Lindsey P. Gustafson, Reflections on Four Years of Team-Based Learning in First-Year Property (2019), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3393128.

M. Brielle Harbin, Collaborative Note-Taking: A Tool for Creating a More Inclusive College Classroom, 68 Coll. Teaching 214 (2020).

Charles Hodge et al., The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning, Educause Rev. (March 27, 2020), https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/3/the-difference-between-emergency-remote-teaching-and-online-learning.

Tonya Kowalski, The Forgotten Sovereigns, 36 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 765 (2009).

Tom Kulik, To Text, or Not to Text, Clients:  An Ethical Question for a Technological Time, Evolve the Law (Feb. 11, 2019),  https://abovethelaw.com/legal-innovation-center/2019/02/11/to-text-or-not-to-text-clients-an-ethical-question-for-a-technological-time/.

Jaime Lee, From Socrates to Selfies: Legal Education and the Metacognitive Revolution, 12 Drexel L. Rev. 227 (2020).

Jaliz Maldonado, What About Attorney-Client Privilege When Text Messaging?, Nat’l L. Rev. (Dec. 17, 2018), https://www.natlawreview.com/article/what-about-attorney-client-privilege-when-text-messaging.

Ellen McCarthy, Insight:  Texting While Lawyering – Think Twice Before Sending that GIF, Bloomberg Law (Jan. 3, 2020), https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/insight-texting-while-lawyering-think-twice-before-sending-that-gif.

Teri McMurtry-Chubb, The Practical Implications of Unexamined Assumptions:  Disrupting Flawed Legal Arguments to Advance the Cause of Justice, 58 Washburn L.J. 531 (2019), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3427844.

Teri McMurtry-Chubb, Still Writing at the Master's Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric in Legal Writing For a 'Woke' Legal Academy, 21 Scholar 255 (2019), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3470489

Patricia Montana, A Contemporary Model for Using Teaching Assistants in Legal Writing Programs, 42 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. 185 (2016).

Joi Montiel, Empower the Student, Liberate the Professor: Self-Assessment by Comparative Analysis, 39 S. Ill. U. L. J. 249 (2015).

Samantha A. Moppatt, Acknowledging America’s First Sovereign:  Incorporating Tribal Justice Systems into the Legal Research and Writing Curriculum, 35 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 267 (2010).  

Thomas A. Murawski, Writing Readable Regulations (1999).

Latisha Nixon-Jones, Beyond Recovery: Reimagining the Legal Academy’s Role in Disaster Law (2020) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3624340.  

Francine Prose, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Eloquence in the Face of
Arrogance is a Master Class, The Guardian (July 28, 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-eloquence-republican-abuse-?CMP=share_btn_link.

Joan Malmud Rocklin et al., An Advocate Persuades (2016). 

Amanda L. Sholtis, Say What?:  A How-To Guide on Providing Formative Assessment to Law Students Through Live Critique, 49 Stetson L. Rev. 1 (2019).  

Ann M. Sinsheimer et al., Legal Writing, A Contemporary Approach (2d ed. 2018). 

Chris Sprigman et al., The Indigo Book: A Manual of Legal Citation, Public Resource (2016).

Maxim Sytch & Yong H. Kim, Want to Win Someone Over?  Talk Like They Do, Harvard Bus. Rev. (Dec. 8, 2020), https://hbr.org/2020/12/want-to-win-someone-over-talk-like-they-do.

Eugene Volokh, Academic Legal Writing:  Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review (4th ed.  2010). 

Susan Wawrose, A More Human Place:  Using Core Counseling Skills to Transform Law School Relationships, 55 Willamette L. Rev. 133 (2018).

COVID-19-Related Publications

Josh Blackman, A Typical University Day in the Covid-19 Era, Reason (May 22, 2020), https://reason.com/2020/05/22/what-would-in-person-classes-look-like-in-the-fall/.

Atul Gawande, Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, A Regimen for Reentry, The New Yorker (May 13, 2020), https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/amid-the-coronavirus-crisis-a-regimen-for-reentry.

Caroline Kitchener, Women Academics Seem to Be Submitting Fewer Papers During Coronavirus. ‘Never Seen Anything Like It,” Says One Editor, The Lily (April 24, 2020), https://www.thelily.com/women-academics-seem-to-be-submitting-fewer-papers-during-coronavirus-never-seen-anything-like-it-says-one-editor/.

“Law Professor Takes 1L Zoom Oral Arguments Nationwide” (and Here’s How She Did It,” Legal Skills Prof Blog (June 1, 2020),  https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legal_skills/2020/06/law-professor-takes-zoom-arguments-nationwide.html James B. Levy, From the Editor:  A Time of Change, 28 Perspectives 3 (Spring 2020).  

Suzanne E. Rowe, Lessons About Work and Life During Uncertain Times, 80 Or. St. B. Bull. 13 (June 2020).

Catherine Sandoval et al., Legal Education in the Era of COVID-19: Putting Health, Safety and Equity First (July 24, 2020), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3660221.