Wednesdays, 1:20 - 2:50

Room 4048

Joan Magat (J.D., Ph.D., English) leads this series of workshops for 2Ls and 3Ls who wish to hone their legal writing or editing skills. Half of each workshop consists of a brief teaching component that focuses on one of the topics listed below. The other half is spent working as a group on exercises–flawed sentences or passages from legal documents such as law review articles or contracts or office memos. The workshop culminates in a written peer review by each student of another’s work using criteria developed over the course of the workshop. This work can be something the student is working on, such as a law review note, or something that is finished but that would benefit from the informed critique of another, such as a writing sample. This workshop offers one credit and is not graded. The workshop is for:

• Law review editors
• Students on Moot Court
• Students writing notes or independent study or seminar papers (with the permission of the guiding professor)
• Students wishing to beef up their writing samples
• Students wishing to improve the effectiveness of their writing for any reason whatsoever

Workshop Topics and Schedule