Scholarly Writing Workshop (624-1)

Instructors

Michelle Susan Falkoff
312/503-0865
MC275
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-2

Meeting Info

McCormick 371: Tues 2:35PM - 4:25PM

Overview of class

In this class, you will choose a topic for, research, draft, and revise a paper suitable for publication in a law review. We'll work together on all stages of the process and help each other with the revision process. We will spend much of our time evaluating your written work, so you are required to complete a full draft of your project in the first half of the semester. This class will therefore involve a significant amount of work throughout the semester.

NOTE: Students who do not submit their work on time may be subject to administrative removal from the course at the discretion of the instructor. The deadlines in this class are not flexible.

Registration Requirements

Successful completion of CLR

Learning Objectives

By the end of the semester, you will be able to:

Identify useful and interesting topics to write about;
Identify and reach out to mentors who can help with your writing projects;
Engage in sophisticated legal research to help you evaluate those topics;
Outline and draft articles based on that research;
Revise your drafts to make them polished enough for publication;
Submit your articles for publication, should you choose to do so.

Class Attributes

Satisfies Research Writing degree req

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Communication and Legal Reasoning I and II are pre-requisite for this course.