make that yale 79...sorry

[mairi morrison]

On May 31, 2009, at 11:59 AM, mairi morrison wrote:

> mairi morrison
> new college
> On May 31, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Volokh, Eugene wrote:
>
>>                Dear Colleagues:  For the fourth edition of my  
>> Academic Legal Writing book, I’d like to include an entire student- 
>> written article – with comments (in the margins or in between  
>> paragraphs) on my part – to use as a good example for readers.  To  
>> be optimal, the article should be (1) very well-written, (2) very  
>> well-reasoned, (3) 40 law review pages or shorter (shorter would be  
>> better), (4) preferably on a topic that readers would find  
>> interesting, and (5) written when the author was still a student  
>> (though it need not have been denominated a student Note or  
>> Comment).  I would also of course ask the author and (if necessary)  
>> the journal for permission to reprint and comment on the piece, and  
>> some of my comments will likely be a bit critical.  But my goal is  
>> to find an article that’s so good that the criticisms will be very  
>> few, and most of the comments will be an explanation of why a  
>> particular paragraph or argument works well, not of why it doesn’t.
>>
>>                Can any of you recommend such an article?  It need  
>> not have been heavily cited, since here I’m looking for a piece  
>> that serves as a good model, not necessarily one that has been  
>> influential.  (The ability to have substantial influence is an  
>> important trait of a good student piece, but by no means the main  
>> trait, so a piece that got quickly but unforeseeably preempted, or  
>> a piece in a field in which there’s comparatively little other  
>> writing, would be just fine despite its low citation count.)  Many  
>> thanks,
>>
>>                Eugene Volokh
>>                UCLA School of Law
>>                (with apologies for cross-posting)
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