Here is a nice exercise posted by Brian Garner from the ABA journal. Garner has published quite a bit on legal writing, and co-authored a book with US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2008 (entitled Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges). This exercise is an outage from another…
Books that Attorneys and Law Students Should Read
Thirty attorneys were commissioned by the American Bar Association; each was asked to name one book they thought all attorneys and law students should read. Here is the list (minus duplicates). My Life in Court by Louis Nizer Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century by Michael Hiltzik 1861:…
Topic Survey: Crime Control and Due Process models
This is a brief survey I did as an orientation to the subject for a project I am working on. The “Crime Control” and “Due Process” models of criminal justice were first articulated by the American scholar Herbert Packer, in an article entitled “Two Models of the Criminal Process.”[1] Packer did not…
US Supreme Court decisions that reference foreign law
Justice Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States recently made comments about the use of decisions of foreign law courts in U.S Court decisions. You can read an article about her comments here in a posting on the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, along with debate pro and con. I…