Draft 12/21/07 - LWI Scholarship Outreach Committee - Winter 2007-08
Contact Person:
Chair of Committee
Prof. Robin A. Boyle,
St. John’s Univ. School of Law
boyler@stjohns.edu
Suggested Readings for Legal Writing Professors Who Wish to Publish
Getting Started
Robin A. Boyle & Joanne Ingham, Suggestions on How to Conduct Empirical Research: A
Behind-the-Scenes View, 15(3) PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RES. & WRITING 176 (2007).
Mary Beth Beazley & Linda H. Edwards, The Process and the Product: A Bibliography of
Scholarship About Legal Scholarship, 49 MERCER L. REV. 741 (1998).
Leah M. Christensen & Julie A. Oseid, Navigating the Law Review Article Selection Process: An
Empirical Study of Those With All the Power—Student Editors, 59 S.C. L. REV. 465
(forthcoming 2008), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1002640.
Christian C. Day, In Search of the Read Footnote: Techniques for Writing Legal Scholarship and
Having It Published, 6 J. LEGAL WRITING INST. 229 (2000).
Gerald Lebovits, Academic Legal Writing: How to Write and Publish, 78 N.Y. ST. B.J. 64
(2006).
Nancy Levit, Scholarship Advice for New Law Professors in the Electronic Age, 16 WIDENER
L.J. 947 (2007).
Melissa J. Marlow, Scholarship Buddies, 56 J. LEGAL EDUC. 56 (2006).
David B. McGinty, Writing for a Student-Edited U.S. Law Review: A Guide for Non-U.S. and
ESL Legal Scholars, 7 N.Y. CITY L. REV. 39 (2004).
Suzanne E. Rowe, Effective Research Assistance and Scholarly Production in Legal Writing, 3 J.
A.L.W.D. 192 (2006).
Ronald Wright, Address for the AALS New Teachers’ Conference: Delivering the Ideas –
Comments for New Legal Scholars (June 23-26, 2005),
http:///www.aals.org/nlt2005/RonaldWrightOutline.pdf.
Trends in Scholarship and Topic Selection
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James M. Boland, Legal Writing Programs and Professionalism: Legal Writing Professors Can
Join the Academic Club, 18 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 711 (2006).
Mitchell Nathanson, Taking the Road Less Traveled: Why Practical Scholarship Makes Sense
for the Legal Writing Professor, 11 LEGAL WRITING: J. LEGAL WRITING INST. 329 (2005).
Terrill Pollman & Linda H. Edwards, Scholarship by Legal Writing Professors: New Voices in
the Legal Academy, 11 LEGAL WRITING: J. LEGAL WRITING INST. 3 (2005).
Michael R. Smith, The Next Frontier: Exploring the Substance of Legal Writing, 2 J. A.L.W.D. 1
(2004).
Legal Writing Scholarship, http://www.legalwritingscholarship.org.
Info About Journals and Submissions
Academic Law Reviews and Journals, http://stu.findlaw.com/journals/.
Law Review Electronic Submissions, http://chaselaw.nku.edu/faculty/ejournals.php.
Washington & Lee Law School, Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking,
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx.
Social Science Research Network: Legal Scholarship Network,
http://www.ssrn.com/lsn/index.html.
Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors
Legal Writing Journals
The Law Teacher, http://www.law.gonzaga.edu/About-Gonzaga-Law/Institute-for-Law-SchoolTeaching/Law-Teacher-Newsletter/default.asp.
Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (J. A.L.W.D.),
http://www.alwd.org/JALWD/JALWDmission.htm.
Legal Writing Institute – Publications: The Second Draft, http://www.lwionline.org.
Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing,
http://west.thomson.com/newsletters/perspectives/.
Scribes – The American Society of Legal Writers, http://www.scribes.org.
Blogs
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Blawg, http://www.blawg.com/.
Concurring Opinions: Law School (Law Reviews),
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/law_school_law_reviews/.
Concurring Opinions: Law School (Scholarship),
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/law_school_scholarship/.
Legal Research and Writing, http://www.researchandwritinglawblog.com/.
Legal Writing Prof Blog, http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwriting/.
PrawfsBlawg, http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/.
The Volokh Conspiracy, http://www.volokh.com/.
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