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An innovative and riveting look at briefs from a highly respected author that can be used a primary text in an advanced legal writing class or as a secondary text in a basic legal writing course. The chapters can be taken in any order. In the first part of the book, individual chapters cover advanced legal writing topics such as rhetoric, voice, emotion, metaphor, and narrative. The second part of the book introduces famous cases, with the story of each case. Chapter introductions provide interesting insights, such as historical context, the story of the case and of the litigation of it, information about the lawyers who wrote the briefs on both sides, what the courts decided, and, where relevant, about what has happened since. Compelling content makes it easy to engage students while photos throughout enliven the text. Full-text cases and briefs are available on a companion website and a Teacher’s Manual offers sample syllabi and suggested readings for each brief.

Features:

• Highly respected author
• Flexibility
  • can be used as core text in advanced legal writing with other materials
  • secondary text in a basic legal writing course
  • chapters can be taken in any order
• High-interest, engaging content
• Each chapter focuses on important legal writing topics
  • rhetoric
  • voice
  • emotion
  • metaphor
  • narrative
• Features famous case
• Chapter introductions with compelling insights
  • historical context
  • the story of the case and its litigation
  • information about the lawyers who wrote the briefs on both sides
  • what the courts decided
  • what has happened since
• Full-text cases and briefs offered on a companion website
• Photos that enliven the text
• A Teacher’s Manual with sample syllabi and suggested readings for each brief

Summary of Contents

Ch. 1. Beginning

Ch. 2. Rhetoric

Ch. 3. History

Ch. 4. Ethics and Art

Ch. 5. Self and Voice

Ch. 6. Freedom and Form

Ch. 7. Emotion

Ch. 8. Readers

Ch. 9. Theory

Ch. 10. Reasons

Ch. 11. Constitutions

Ch. 12. Disagreeing

Ch. 13. Metaphor

Ch. 14. Storytelling

Ch. 15. Client Stories

Ch. 16. Law’s Stories

Ch. 17. A Life in the Law (Conclusion)

Linda H. Edwards

Linda H. Edwards

E-mail address: linda.edwards@unlv.edu

Education: ;

B.A., Florida State University, 1970
J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law, 1976

Background:

Professor Edwards joined the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in July 2009 after serving as Visiting Professor of Law in 2008-2009. Before joining the academy, Professor Edwards practiced law for eleven years. She then began her teaching career at the New York University School of Law, where she served as the Coordinator of the NYU Lawyering Program. In 1990, Professor Edwards joined the faculty at the Mercer University School of Law, where she was the Macon Professor of Law. During her 19 years at Mercer, Professor Edwards directed the legal writing program and taught in the areas of property, employment discrimination, advanced legal writing, professional responsibility, and legal reasoning.

Professor Edwards is a national leader in the field of legal writing, having been awarded the 2009 Thomas Blackwell Award for her lifetime achievements in and contributions to the field. She has published a number of articles and three books in the areas of legal writing and property, and she has served in a variety of capacities at the ABA and the American Association of Law Schools. Professor Edwards is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and she serves as a faculty member for the Persuasion Institute's Advanced Training Program in Narrative Construction, which is sponsored by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. ;

Selected Books:

• Briefs That Changed the World: Advanced Strategies in Legal Argument (forthcoming Aspen Publishers, 2010).
• Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization, 5th. ed., ( Aspen Publishers, 2010).
• Estates In Land And Future Interests: A Step-By-Step Guide, 3d. ed., (Aspen Publishers, 2009).
• Legal Writing and Analysis, 2d. ed., (Aspen Publishers, 2007).

• Once Upon a Time in the Law: Myth, Metaphor and Authority, (in submission).
• Rhetoric, Audience, and the Provocative Voice, 16 J. Leg. Writing___(2010).
• Joining the Writing Life, 61 Mercer L. Rev. __ (2010).
• Scholarship By Legal Writing Professors: New Voices In the Legal Academy , 11 J. Leg. Writing 3 (2006) Lexis Westlaw
• Tribute to Adam Milani,, 3 J. A.L.W.D. 1 (2006).
• The Process and theProduct: A Bibliography of Scholarship About Legal Scholarship, 49 Mercer L. Rev. 741 (1998).
• The Convergence of Analogical and Dialectic Imaginations in Legal Discourse , 20 Legal Stud. F. 7 (1996) (lead article).
• Honoring the Law in Communities of Force: Wildman and Terrell's Teleology of Practice, 41 Emory L.J. 489 (1992) (with Jack Sammons).
• Civil Rights In Employment: The New Generation, 67 Den. U.L. Rev. 1 (1990) (lead article).
• Watson v. Ft. Worth Bank and Trust: The Changing Face of Disparate Impact . 66 Den. U.L. Rev. 179 (1989).
• Atonio v. Wards Cove Packing Co., Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases, (Feb. 9, 1989).