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Documenting the Drafting Process for the Declaration of Independence

04 Jul

Many but probably not most folks know that the Declaration of Independence was not written by Thomas Jefferson. The drafting process may have started at Jefferson’s portable writing desk in Philadelphia but it quickly moved to becoming a product of…

 

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,…