Scholarly Writing Workshop (624-1)

Instructors

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

Meeting Info

Rubloff Building 254 - Savner: Wed 2:45PM - 4:35PM

Overview of class

This Workshop permits students to write an academic paper within a structured format but without the topic-specific constrictions of a seminar. Students can write on any topic that is appropriate for legal-academic scholarship and must produce a final paper similar in length and research expectations to a student note.

Registration Requirements

Successful completion of CLR I and II

Learning Objectives

By the end of the semester, students will be able to: Identify useful and interesting topics to write about; identify and reach out to mentors who can help with writing projects; engage in sophisticated legal research to help evaluate those topics; outline and draft articles based on that research, based on a timeline that requires strict adherence to deadlines; present the article for review; revise drafts to make them polished enough for publication; submit articles for publication, should the student choose to do so.

Class Materials (Required)

Wherry and Murray, Scholarly Writing textbook; additional online readings

Class Notes

Again: the deadlines in this class are not flexible. Do not register for this course if you require deadline flexibility. Please do register for this course if you want to write a full law review article, ready for publication, in a semester.

Class Attributes

Satisfies Research Writing degree req

Enrollment Requirements

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