Legal Scholarship Blog

UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law presents Legal Persuasion: An Advanced Workshop Dec. 15-16, 2011. The workshop will address Negotiation, Written and Oral Advocacy, and Visual Persuasion. mw

Once a week, we share links to recent papers and blog posts discussing scholarship: how it’s created, how it’s disseminated, who uses it, and so on. To suggest something for…

Cardozo Law School, the New York Law School Law Review, and the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School present Visualizing Law in the Digital Age…

On September 1, 2011, the Climenko Fellowship Program will begin accepting applications for the 2012-14 term. Climenko Fellows teach in Harvard Law School’s First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program. The…

At Concurring Opinions, a guest blogger who just finished his term as articles editor for the University of Chicago Law Review invites readers to ask him the editors’ perspective on…

The Supreme Court and Legal Scholarship Petherbridge, Lee and Schwartz, David L., An Empirical Assessment of the Supreme Court’s Use of Legal Scholarship (July 12, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1884462…

Elizabeth Mertz, Frances Tung, Katherine Barnes, Wamucii Njogu, Molly Heiler, Joanne Martin, After Tenure: Post-Tenure Law Professors in the United States (American Bar Foundation 2011) The After Tenure Study, jointly…

Richard A. Danner, Kiril Kolev & Marguerite I. Most, Print or Perish? Authors’ Attitudes Toward Electronic-Only Publication of Law Journals (July 15, 2011). Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1886445 An increasing number of…

Chemerinsky, Erwin, Why Write? (August 19, 2010). Michigan Law Review, Vol. 107, p. 881, 2009; UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2009-9. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1375052 What is…

This week’s scholarship about scholarship: Wolotira, Alena L., From a Trickle to a Flood: A Case Study of the Current Index to Legal Periodicals to Examine the Swell of American…