Legal Scholarship Series

Legal Scholarship

These videos provide the very basics of the process creating legal scholarship in any form.

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What is Legal Scholarship
How to Find a Legal Topic (TBD)
Identifying a Thesis Statement
Conducting a Literature Review or Preemption Check
Researching Your Issue
Authority of Sources
Outlining for Legal Scholarship
Drafting and Execution
Citation Managers: Zotero
Legal AI Ethics
Using Legal AI Tools
Additional Writing Resources
- Eugene Volokh, Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review (Older editions online)
- Elizabeth Fajans & Mary R. Falk, Scholarly Writing for Law Students: Seminar Papers, Law Review Notes and Law Review Competition Papers
- Jessica Lynn Wherry & Kristen E. Murray, Scholarly Writing: Ideas, Examples, and Execution
- Christine Nero Coughlin, et al., Modern Legal Scholarship: A Guide to Producing and Publishing Scholarly and Professional Writing
- Nadia E. Nedzel, Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing for International Graduate Students
- Elizabeth Berenguer, The Legal Scholar’s Guidebook
- Martha Minow, Archetypal Legal Scholarship: A Field Guide, 63 J. Legal Educ. 65 (2013)
- Guide to the Preemption Check
- Library Services and Policies for Law Reviews

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