Sentences with phrase «opinion writing course»

This article is so narrowly focused that it would not be very helpful in training externs and clerks in a judicial opinion writing course.

This would be a good addition for training externs and clerks in a judicial opinion writing course.

The article is narrow in scope; however, it may prompt an interesting discussion regarding training externs and clerks in a judicial opinion writing course.

This text could form the foundation of a judicial opinion writing course, but professors might want to add some articles or excerpts that add to the craft of opinion writing, look at writing from a judge's perspective, and further discuss the audiences for opinions.

Excerpts on the decision to publish and whether to issue summary affirmances might be helpful in training externs and clerks in a judicial opinion writing course to give the students background in some of the decisions judges must make in addition to how to decide cases and write the opinions.

In addition to training externs and clerks, an upper - level class in judicial opinion writing provides an opportunity for students to hone their skills in writing for a particular audience, structuring and organizing, analyzing, and using rhetorical devices introduced during the first - year writing course through a different type of document.6 Such a course can cause students to look at the legal process from a different perspective and to become better critical readers and users of opinions by writing them.7 Thus, other goals of a judicial opinion writing course can include learning about the audiences of judicial opinions and the perspective judges bring to their opinion writing.

This article does not seem to aid in attaining any of the three stated goals of a judicial opinion writing course.37 It might provide discussion material for a seminar.

This relatively short theoretical piece, written for all students of the law, asks foundational questions about the purposes of written opinions that will provide context for the three goals of a judicial opinion writing course and assure the students that learning about writing judicial opinions matters.

This article brings aspects of writing from a judicial perspective and writing for the audience for opinions to a judicial opinion writing course.

This is a succinct «how - to» article for training externs and clerks in a judicial opinion writing course.

This lecture is relevant to the goal of the judicial opinion writing course to write for judicial opinions» audiences.

This theoretical, but practical, article is aimed at a judicial audience, but could be profitably used in a judicial opinion writing course to study writing for the audiences for opinions from a judge's perspective.

2006)[hereinafter Sourcebook](giving ideas for judicial opinion writing course content).

Again, the narrow focus of this article and its age would not make it useful in training externs and clerks in a judicial opinion writing course.

Likewise, it is too brief to serve as the text of a judicial opinion writing course.

It would make a useful addition to the training of externs and clerks in a judicial opinion writing course.

The number of law school courses offered in judicial opinion writing has increased, 1 along with the total number of elective courses in legal writing.2 The growth of judicial opinion writing courses, in particular, may be due to the rise in popularity of judicial externships.3 Several schools have added a classroom component to externships in response to rules of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) 4 and the American Bar Association (ABA).5

This article is a good choice for judicial opinion writing courses and seminars.

In sum, the article is an excellent guidebook for training externs and clerks that will be a helpful addition to judicial opinion writing courses.

The article would be useful in both judicial opinion writing courses and seminars.

The state and federal judiciary have organizations that specialize in training judges, such as the ABA's Appellate Judges Conference8 and the Federal Judicial Center.9 Both of these organizations provide seminars in judicial opinion writing and have published helpful references.10 The interest in judicial opinion writing courses in law schools has developed more recently.11 In fact, law professors teaching these courses have used material designed for judges and their law clerks, assigned readings, their own materials, or some combination of these three.

It also addresses the issue of the audience for opinions, making the article appropriate for judicial opinion writing courses.

Not exact matches

A few years ago, I wrote an opinion piece on «pathway colleges» â $» i.e. private companies that recruit students from other countries and then «bridge» them into Canadian universities by providing pre-university courses, including English as a Second Language.

Of course you can be proven wrong... your holy book was written by man, no god involved; thus your belief is based on the fairy tales told by men who saw a gullible fool a mile away - see, how easy that is??? As for the actual number being only 1.6 billion, sorry the stats say different and your opinion on who the actual number includes is moot.

The Bible is, in reality, a complex collection of historical documents, written over the course of at least 1,500 years, which represents various literary genres (everything from history to parables, poetry to pastoral letters and legal code to visions of the future), worldviews, languages, cultures, agendas and opinions.

I was looking up a verse today that's meaning hinges on whether it is written in the aorist or present tense... and of course every commentator has a different opinion.

In July 1989, he wrote me: «But of course I am of the opinion that the origin and existence of the various confessions is not only a misfortune, that it is not only «division» and destruction of unity, but that it also signifies a working toward the good in the divine plan for unity and that in diversification the Holy Spirit is aiming at unity in accordance with the New Testament....

My view is a minority opinion, of course, but I was thrilled to read a few years back something that N. T. Wright wrote about Q:

Milton, who appears to have had full conviction of the truth of Christianity, and to have regarded the Holy Scriptures with the profoundest veneration, to have been untainted by an heretical peculiarity of opinion [Johnson of course wrote this before Milton's heretical manu scripts were discovered], and to have lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence, yet grew old without any visible worship.

^ ^ this article is about wilshere and his performance normally i have no problem with OT - comments but it annoys me a bit when people want to connect an article in a random way to comment they just love and want to keep making... look the hating and stating opinions about walcott is getting annoying, we all get it, walcott played piss - poor in the second half and was lacklustre but enough people have already written about his wage packet and his lacklustre performances at least let an article about wilshere stay one about wilshere and of course everybody should be able to write OT - comments but then it should at least be something new which wasnt already written like 100000 times in one single month: /

A written opinion will follow in due course.

I wrote a letter and later on, I found out about translation service which changed my opinion about internationaldestiny.com, in a good sense, of course.

Writing at The Federalist, Joy Pullman says «it's about time someone with power and cojones took a stand,» while offering no opinion whatsoever on the likely outcome — but of course taking the opportunity to note yet again (cue the applause) that «federal laws explicitly prohibit the national government from directing, supervising, or controlling curriculum and instruction.»

For example, you've just had a ton of documents, half - written notes, varying opinions and everything in - between thrown at you, and now you're expected to mold it into a cohesive and outstanding eLearning course — who wouldn't be overwhelmed!

Sounding too personal; of course, it is necessary to show your own figure in the process of your opinion essay ideas presenting, while mentioning your own opinion on the subject under consideration, however, if you are going to overfill the essay with the examples you have taken from your own personal experience, you will fail to get a good grade for your writing.

Writing is my passion, always expressing an opinion on anything — from a movie to my inability to understand fashion, and of course, travel (even tried my hand in fiction at some point).

Anybody writing about Environment for newspapers, or speaking on TV or radio, who disputes this should be sent on a training course in the Science of Climate Change in my opinion.

But just because a senior person merely reviewed and edited an opinion, brief or blog post - instead of actually researching and writing it - it doesn't translate that he or she has commited an ethical violation (of course, plagiarism - the culpable act of passing off someone else's content as one's own without the permission of the author - is an entirely different matter that is deserving of censure and liability).

We are of course appealing, but I wanted to point out how thoughtful and well - written the hon. court's opinion was.

For courses focusing on writing appellate opinions, this is an excellent alternative to Opinion Writing and can be added to other articles and book chapters to provide materials for a more comprehensive writing appellate opinions, this is an excellent alternative to Opinion Writing and can be added to other articles and book chapters to provide materials for a more comprehensive Writing and can be added to other articles and book chapters to provide materials for a more comprehensive course.

See Brugger, supra n. 141, at 647 (stating that while Tucker's moot court was «no innovation in legal training,» Tucker enjoyed using it); Butler, supra n. 143, at 29 (stating that «with the higher view of preparing students for speaking and writing on legal subjects, it will be useful to exercise their minds by forensic debates in moot courts, and by requiring from them written opinions on questions of law, and readings and dissertations on statutes and other themes, as circumstances permit»); Laub, supra n. 144, at 14 (quoting Reed's letter to the Dickinson College Trustees on a course of study); Barrow, supra n. 148, at 289.

Because my focus was on the craft of drafting an opinion primarily for courses on judicial opinion writing, I leaned toward «how - to» resources.

Not only is it an indispensible reference for chambers, considering its comprehensiveness, readability, and modest price, it is an excellent choice for law school courses on judicial opinion writing.18 HT, T, Ref; E, C, JS.

Sourcebook, supra n. 7, at 183 (stating that judicial opinion writing is a recent addition to advanced legal writing courses).

The «how - to» materials will assist legal writers in improving their organization and legal analysis skills.14 The more theoretical works can be helpful in judicial process courses and seminars for law students and judges.15 Writings that explain the workings of chambers provide the context in which opinions are written and are useful for current externs, future and new clerks, and new judges.16

While this is an excellent reference for all legal writers, the short section on writing judicial opinions does not go into sufficient depth for courses on judicial opinion writing.

In the course of updating an article I wrote last year about legal - ethics resources on the Web, I came across Ethics and Lawyering Today, a monthly electronic newsletter highlighting important new cases, ethics opinions, and other developments, often with links to full text documents.

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

Next, Amanda Smith argues for the addition of an opinion - writing exercise as a complement to the traditional office memorandum in first - semester legal writing courses.

I can think of only two arguable downsides to this: that opinions may not always be consistent or written in language that is understandable, but of course, both of these problems already plague the Court.