Seeking first-rate student-written article to use as an example

[Paul Finkelman]

reprint the greatest student note EVER written:

"The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule" in Penn Law Review.

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Paul Finkelman

President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law

Albany Law School

80 New Scotland Avenue

Albany, NY  12208



518-445-3386 (p)

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pfink at albanylaw.edu



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--- On Sun, 5/31/09, Volokh, Eugene <VOLOKH at law.ucla.edu> wrote:

From: Volokh, Eugene <VOLOKH at law.ucla.edu>
Subject: Seeking first-rate student-written article to use as an example
To: "Law & Religion issues for Law Academics" <religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu>
Date: Sunday, May 31, 2009, 11:51 AM




 
 






              
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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