A Beginner's Guide to Legal Education

Professor James R. Elkins
College of Law, West Virginia University

Legal Research & Law School Writing

IRAC
Wikipedia

The IRAC Formula
LawNerds.com

What Kind of Story is Legal Writing?
Professor James R. Elkins, College of Law, West Virginia University

Writing Essays & Research Papers

• Paradigm: Online Writing Assistant
• Guide to Writing a Basic Essay

Law Review

Last Writes? Re-assessing the Law Review in the Age of Cyberspace
a provocative thesis about the future of law reviews by Professor Bernard Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

The Future of Legal Scholarship and Scholarly Communication
Professor David A. Rier, article, Akron Law Review

Writer's Tools and Resources

• Jack Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Research Resources for Writers

Tools: Legal Dictionaries

• Bouviers Law Dictionary (1856 ed.)

Citation of Sources

• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
  Professor Peter W. Martin, Cornell Law School
• Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides
• Melyvl [Melyvl is a bibliographical search database of University of California library holdings; searches by author and/or title provides full bibliographical information; an extremely valuable research tool for insuring that you have the title, author, and publication information about your sources exactly right (especially useful for researchers who do not have access to the OCLC database)]

Dictionaries

• Index of Online Dictionaries   

Legal Writing: Programs & Pedagogy

A Bibliography