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Schwartz professor of law at the ucla school of law and an academic affiliate of the law firm mayer brown. Before going into teaching, he clerked for ninth circuit judge alex kozinski and for justice sandra day oconnor. View aextract from engl 215 at university of wisconsin. Schwartz professor of law at ucla, where he teaches free speech law, religion clauses law, criminal law, tort law, and academic legal writing. Schwartz professor of law at ucla, where he law, religion clauses law, criminal law, tort law, and academic legal writing. The date my paper was due severe formatting glitches caused me to lose 4 5 pages. The book is nominally directed to law students and those who teach them and for those audiences, it is outstanding, but it also. See all 4 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Read academic legal writing university casebook series. Its author is eugene volokh, a hotshot professor at ucla law school. Volokh addresses every possible question that a prelaw student could have about academic legal writinghow to choose a topic, how to test its claim or hypothesis, how to research it, how to use evidence i. Although we will not often discuss the material from this book in class, it is an invaluable resource, and i have.
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