Download This PaperBreaking the Rules
Georgetown University Law Center Research Paper No. 2023/22
Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, Special Issue: In Limine: Writing Assignment at the Transition from Undergraduate to Law School, Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2024, Pp. 107-115.
(2023). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2524.
10 Pages Posted: 19 Jul 2023
Date Written: July 17, 2023
Abstract
“Breaking the Rules” is a legal research and writing assignment that I crafted for students completing their first year of law school. The assignment honors new students’ desire for skills that will allow them to effectively challenge the status quo of settled but discriminatory legal rules. Part I of this article is an essay that contextualizes and explains the assignment; Part II provides the assignment itself.
Keywords: Legal Writing, Legal Education, Legal Academia, Legal Research and Writing, First-year students, Law students, Discrimination, Inequity
JEL Classification: K00, K30
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Rima Sirota (Contact Author)
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