According to Tun-Jen Chiang’s PrawfsBlog post, Amicus Briefs and the Academic-Judge Divide, law prof amicus briefs are just as, if not more, irrelevant then their scholarly law journal output. “In discussions about the supposed uselessness of legal scholarship to judges,…
Posts Tagged ‘Journal’
Something New in the Academic Law Journal Genre: UDC-DCSL’s Illustrated Law Journal
29
Jul
The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law has launched the Illustrated Law Journal (ILJ) project “to use web technology and Free Culture licenses to generate meaningful visual illustrations of laws and legal concepts… .”…
WSJ: Law Schools Increasing Skills Training
11
Jul
Could it be that the new competition among law schools would be teaching lawyering skills? The Wall Street Journal is describing efforts by a number of different schools in that direction. New York Law School, for example, is hiring 15…
SCOTUS Justices on the Language of Law: Advocacy and Legal Writing (and by Implication Legal Research, Too)
30
Jun
On Legal Writing Prof Blog, Judith D. Fischer (Louisville) writes: The latest issue of the Scribes Journal of Legal Writing (Volume 13) is a gold mine of Supreme Court justices’ observations about brief writing and oral argument. Several years ago,…
