Legal Writing & Student Scholarship
Legal Writing
Learning to write like a lawyer is perhaps the greatest challenge of legal education. The writing faculty support Duke Law students in all of their writing endeavors, helping them to develop and perfect the skills necessary to produce top-quality legal writing. The Legal Writing website provides information about the writing faculty, legal writing opportunities, links to exercises, and more.
Advanced Legal Writing Workshop
Professor Joan Magat offers a series of workshops for 2Ls and 3Ls who wish to hone their legal writing or editing skills. Workshops focus on topics such as cohesive writing, conciseness, clarity, and style.
Advanced Legal Writing Workshop
Legal Writing Workshop for LLM students
Professor Amy Davis offers a workshop for LLM students who are writing academic research papers or working on improving their legal writing in English. Students may attend this workshop in conjunction to taking course 195.01, Legal Analysis, Research and Writing for International Students. Contact the professor for more information about this workshop.
Student Early Stages Workshop
This workshop, established in Fall of 2004, provide students an opportunity to share their scholarship with other students. Students present their writings and receive feedback from peers and guidance from faculty advisors.