Download This PaperBuilding a Tower of Babel or Building a Discipline? Talking About Legal Writing
44 Pages Posted: 4 Dec 2007
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 Classification: K10, K39, Z00
Suggested Citation: 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: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1050721
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