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Scalia Interview Transcript

ABA JOURNAL: We’re here in Washington, and we’re here with Justice Scalia and with Bryan Garner in Dallas. We’re talking about their new book, and the book is called Making Your Case, and it’s coming out this year. Bryan and I have chatted a little bit in preparation about how…

May 1, 2008 1:00 PM CDT

Scalia ‘Disturbed’ About Church-State Separation ‘Lie’

Justice Antonin Scalia is nothing if not quotable. In his latest speech yesterday, he confessed to being disturbed about claims the Constitution erects a strict wall of separation between church and state. Scalia pointed out that legislative sessions begin with a prayer and American currency contains the phrase “In God…

Apr 11, 2008 12:15 PM CDT

Legal Writing Instructor Among Pulitzer Winners

A Harvard University law grad who teaches legal writing and literature at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York is among the Pulitzer Prize winners announced this week. John Matteson won for a biography, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, the Associated Press…

Apr 10, 2008 2:41 PM CDT

Why Words Can Be Like Ugly Cravats: Justices Dish on Legal Writing

Eight U.S. Supreme Court justices come clean about their legal-writing pet peeves and their opinion-writing philosophies in “raw and unvarnished” videos posted to a linguist’s Web site. Lawyers who specialize in Supreme Court advocacy are scouring the videos, posted at LawProse.org, to divine the justices’ likes and dislikes, Legal Times…

Mar 10, 2008 3:30 PM CDT

Justice Scalia Teams With Writing Expert for Book

Judges have long complained about deficiencies in lawyer advocacy. Now U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is doing something about it. Scalia is working with legal writing expert Bryan Garner to write a book on the art of persuasive lawyering. Scalia said in a statement that he hopes the book…

Nov 27, 2007 12:39 PM CST

Legal Writing That Works

Persuasive briefs are the product of tough choices about substance, style

Jul 1, 2007 10:35 PM CDT

Legal Writing Prof Has Writing Issues

An online paper about environmental dispute resolution posted by Victoria Dawson reportedly is clumsily written, ungrammatical and filled with spelling errors. The problem is, she’s a legal writing instructor at Florida A&M University’s law school. The paper prompted some students to complain that Dawson is unqualified to continue in her…

Jun 6, 2007 7:53 PM CDT

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