Download This PaperThe Craft of Writing in Legal Scholarship
Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 449/2025
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, volume 76, issue RS, 2025[10.53386/nilq.v76iRS.1210]
11 Pages Posted: 30 Apr 2025
Date Written: April 01, 2025
Abstract
This short essay is a contribution to a series of commissioned 'Reflections on Writing' that treat the activity of writing as a fundamental but often insufficiently examined aspect of legal research and scholarship. The essay reflects on various types of contemporary writing in legal contexts, their motivations, aims, and methods, and on the author's personal approach to writing in some of these different contexts.
Keywords: Legal scholarship, writing aims, writing practice, George Orwell
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