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Legal Information Resources (STA): Writing

This subject guide profiles legal information resources that are available via The Alma Jordan Library (AJL), Campus Libraries, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus (STA).

Writing: Introduction

The Alma Jordan Library's (AJL) collection includes books in print and electronic format that offer guidance on legal writing.

Writing: Selected Titles (AJL)

Academic legal writing : law review articles, student notes, seminar papers, and getting on law review / by Eugene Volokh ; with foreword by Alex Kozinski.

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

 Acing the LLB : capturing your full potential to improve your grades / John McGarry.

See "Chapter 5: Understanding Essay Questions and Problem Questions," "Chapter 6: Answering Coursework Questions," and "Chapter 9: Dissertations."

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

The elements of legal writing / Martha Faulk and Irving M. Mehler.

The elements of legal writing / Martha Faulk and Irving M. Mehler.

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

Glanville Williams : learning the law / by Glanville Williams, QC, LL.D., F.B.A., Honorary and Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge: Honorary Bencher Of the Middle Temple: formerly Professor of Public Law and Quain Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of London, and Rouse Bll Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge.

See "Chapter 9: Answering Essay Questions."

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

How to write law essays & exams / S I Strong, PhD (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), JD (Duke); Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law; Solicitor, Supreme Court of England and Wales; Solicitor, Ireland; Attorney, New York, Illinois and Missouri.

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

How to write better law essays : tools and techniques for success in exams and assignments / Steve Foster.

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

The insider's guide to legal skills / Emily Allbon & Sanmeet Kaur Dua.

See "Chapter 5: Legal Writing . . ."

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

 The law student's handbook / Steve Wilson & Phillip Kenny.

See "Chapter 8: Preparing Written Work."

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

Learning legal rules : a students' guide to legal method and reasoning / James Holland, Julian Webb ; foreword to the first edition by the Rt Hon Lord Templeman MBE.

"See Chapter 4: From Reading to Writing."

Legal English : how to understand and master the language of law / William R. McKay, Helen E. Charlton, and Grant Barsoum.

See "Chapter 1: Academic Writing."

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

Legal reasoning and legal writing / Richard K. Neumann (Professor of Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University), Ellie Margolis (Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law), Kathryn M. Stanchi (E.L. Cord Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law).

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

Legal skills / Emily Finch, Stefan Fafinski.

See "Chapter 13: Essay Writing," "Chapter 14: Dissertations," and "Chapter 15: Answering Problem Questions."

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

Legal writing / Lisa Webley.

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

 

Legal writing skills : a guide to writing essays and answering problem questions / Dr. Steve Foster, principal lecturer in law Coventry Law School, Coventry University.

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

 

etters to a law student / Nicholas J. McBride ; Jason N.E. Varuhas.

See chapters on "How to Write an Essay," "Writing a Dissertation," "Top 10 Metaphors, Allusions, and Phrases," and "How to Write a Problem Answer."

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

Academic legal writing : law review articles, student notes, seminar papers, and getting on law review / by Eugene Volokh ; with foreword by Alex Kozinski.

Scholarly writing : ideas, examples, and execution / Jessica L. Clark, Kristen E. Murray.

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

 

Skills for law students / Helen Carr.

See "Chapter 25: Writing Essays," "Chapter 26: Writing Extended Essays and Dissertations," and "Chapter 27: Answering Problem Questions."

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

Successful legal writing / Edwina Higgins, Laura Tatham.

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

Writing for law / by Dave Powell, Emma Teare

Do refer to your academic Supervisor/Lecturer regarding the requirements of a specific writing assignment/task.

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