Articles

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The Count's Dilemma, or, Harmony and Dissonance in Legal Language, 9 Legal Communication & Rhetoric: J ALWD __ (2012). (2012)

Lawyers have had a long, but ambivalent, relationship with metaphor. Viewed by some as a...

 

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Thinking Like Non-Lawyers: Why Empathy is a Core Lawyering Skill and Why Legal Education Should Change to Reflect its Importance, Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (2011)

This article is an exploration of some of the issues raised by the recent Carnegie...

 

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Mapping the Social Life of the Law: An Alternative Approach to Legal Research, Internaitonal Journal of Legal Information (2008)

As the law moves inexorably to a digital publication model in which books no longer...

 

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'Aux Armes, Citoyens!:' Time for Law Schools to Lead the Movement for Free and Open Access to the Law, University of Toledo Law Review (2007)

This article is a manifesto that outlines the principles of the open access to legal...

 

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Cite Unseen: How Neutral Citation And America's Law Schools Can Cure Our Strange Devotion To Bibliographical Orthodoxy And The Constriction Of Open And Equal Access To The Law, Albany Law Review (2007)

This article looks at the phenomenon of legal citation and its unintended consequences. After considering...

 

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Conducting The Constitution: Justice Scalia, Textualism, And The Eroica Symphony, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (2007)

This article summarizes various modes of Constitutional and musical interpretation and imagines how Justice Antonin...

 

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"Who Are Those Guys?:" The Results of a Survey Studying the Information Literacy of Incoming Law Students, California Western Law Review (2007)

This article presents the results of a summer 2006 survey of students about to begin...

 

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“Forty-Two:” A Hitchhikers Guide To Teaching Legal Research To The Google Generation, Akron Law Review (2006)

This article seeks to answer the questions of what students should learn about legal research...

 

Contributions to Books

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The Beggar's Opera and its Criminal Law Context, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera 1728-2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings (2006)

This chapter seeks to take the characters and situations of Gay's The Beggar's Opera and...