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Volume 1

The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, Volume 1

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Cover Page


Table of Contents


From the Editor


Articles and Essays

Literary Allusion in Legal Writing The Haynsworth-Wright Letters
by Charles Alan Wright

Should Lawyers Punctuate?
by Richard C. Wydick

Why Judges Have Nothing to Tell Lawyers About Writing
by Steven Stark

Extremist Drafting of Federal Statutes
by John A. Bell

Not So Fast on the Crits: A Grudging Tribute (or Concession) to Crit Style
by John D. Ayer

A Few of Wisdom’s Idiosyncrasies and a Few of Ignorance’s: A Judicial Style Sheet
by Thomas Gibbs Gee

A Style Sheet for Litigation
by James W. McElhaney

Why the First-Year Legal-Writing Course Cannot Do Much About Bad Legal Writing
by Douglas Laycock


Student Essays

Reaction and Distraction: The Pronoun Problem in Legal Persuasion
by Beverly Ray Burlingame

Unmasking Jargon as Substance: How the Crits Have Made a Dialect out of Dialectic
by Owen Peter Martikan

Is Judicial Humor Judicious?
by Susan K. Rushing


Notes & Queries


Book Reviews


Book Notices


Notes on Contributors


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