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Building a Tower of Babel or Building a Discipline? Talking About Legal Writing

Terrill Pollman
William S. Boyd School of Law UNLV

Marquette Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 4, Summer 2002

Abstract:
This article examines the language legal writing professors use and create to teach legal writing. It concludes the benefits of creating a legal writing language outweigh the risk of confusion, because legal writing professors are actually creating the emerging discipline as they create new language.

Keywords: legal writing, language, jargon, pedagogy, teaching

JEL Classifications: K10, K39, Z00

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Date posted: December 04, 2007 ; Last revised: January 13, 2008

Suggested Citation

Pollman, Terrill, Building a Tower of Babel or Building a Discipline? Talking About Legal Writing. Marquette Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 4, Summer 2002. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1050721

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Terrill Pollman (Contact Author)

William S. Boyd School of Law UNLV ( email )

4505 South Maryland Parkway
Box 451003
Las Vegas, NV 89154
United States