Academic Legal Writing - Eugene Volokh
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD, BY JUDGE ALEX KOZINSKI
INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I. FINDING WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT (THE CLAIM)
A. The Claim
1. Your basic thesis
2. The descriptive and the prescriptive parts of the thesis
B. Finding a Claim
1. Finding a problem
2. ... in cases you've read for class, or in class discussions
3. ... in casebook questions
4. ... in issues left over or created by recent Supreme Court cases
5. ... in your work as a research assistant ...