Legal Writing Monograph Series
Last year, the Legal Writing Institute (LWI) Board of Directors created a Monograph series. The Monograph’s first electronic volume is now available on the LWI website. The focus of this first volume is “The Art of Critiquing Written Work.” Our own Professor Alison Julien worked on this project. Professor Jane Kent Gionfriddo stated in a post to the LWI listserv that the volumes “will focus on a specific topic relevant to teaching, curriculum, scholarship or status of Legal Writing professionals and will include substantial, well-developed pieces of scholarship in the form of law review articles or book chapters that have been previously published elsewhere.”
As we officially open the school year, I have been thinking a lot about what are the secrets to success in law school. I understand that Dean Rofes spoke at Orientation about the sausage races at Miller Park. (I personally always root for the Chorizo Sausage!) Law school may sometimes feel a bit like a race, or, to think more classically about Aesop’s fables, like the story of the Tortoise and the Hare. In that story, the tortoise ultimately wins the race using slow and steady steps to the finish line.