Lawyer-as-Writer

Assumptions: About Writing, in Law School & Beyond

Can Writing Be Taught?

  Peter Elbow on Writing

Responding to Another Writer's Work

A Teacher's Writing Diagnostic

Things We Carry Into Legal Writing
an essay on the "baggage" that law students carry with them as writers
drawing on first person accounts of law students

Inheritance in Ink
a law student tells a story about her inheritance as a writer

 Introspective Writing

Course Information

Syllabus

Background Readings

Introspective Writing in Law School

Legal Writing "Texts"    Legal Writing Pedagogy

Lawyers as Writers & the Legal Imagination
a tribute to James Boyd White's early work on the lawyer as writer

What Kind of Story is Legal Writing?

 

My Writing Bio

 

 

James R. Elkins

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| Posted January, 2000 | revised July, 2000 | frequent revisions while the course was in session
(August-December, 2000 | clean-up and repair broken links, September, 2005 |