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Advice from Professors

How to Write a Law Review Article
By Richard Delgado, 20 University of San Francisco Law Review 445 (1986)
Academic Legal Writing (Excerpt)
By Eugene Volokh, Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review, 3rd ed. (2007)
Outlining Your Scholarly Paper
By Peter Carey, The Writing Center (2014) Georgetown University Law Center
Goodbye to Law Reviews
By Fred Rodell, Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository (1936)
The Craft of Research

Books

Academic Legal Writing by Eugene Volokh
Call Number: Smith KF250 .V64 2016x
Publication Date: 2016
Academic Writing for Graduate Students by John M. Swales; Christine Feak
Call Number: PE 1408 .S7836 2012
Publication Date: 2012
They Say / I Say by Gerald Graff; Cathy Birkenstein; Russel Durst
Call Number: Shapiro Undergraduate — 2nd Floor PE 1431 .G73 2011
Publication Date: 2011
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian; Wayne C. Booth (Revised by); Gregory G. Colomb (Revised by); Joseph M. Williams (Revised by); Joseph Bizup (Revised by); William T. FitzGerald (Revised by); The University The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff (Revised by)
Call Number: LB 2369 .T8 2018
Publication Date: 2018

Advice from Students

How to Write a Legal Academic Paper
By A.N., 3L, Student Perspectives (March 1, 2012), Yale Law School
How to Hope in Graduate School
By Kyle S. Vitale, The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 9, 2016)
Comment Submission Guidelines
By Smith et al, The Yale Law Journal (January 30, 2018)

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