Texts used in Legal
Research and Writing I and II
Students taking the course will use the following texts, which are available at the Law School Bookmart. The price of the Citation Handbook also covers some of the duplication costs for the documents that you will receive in your LR&W classes throughout the year.
You will use all four required
texts in both the fall and spring Legal Research and Writing courses. Please be sure to save them for the spring
semester.
Mary Barnard Ray, The Basics of Legal Writing (2006).
Robert
C. Berring & Elizabeth A. Edinger, Finding the Law (12th ed. 2005).
Mary Ann Polewski, Citation Handbook 2007-2008.
The
Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Columbia Law Review Ass=n et al. eds., 18th ed. 2005).
Texts that are
recommended in some sections of Legal Research and Writing
Your
LR&W teacher may recommend the book(s) listed below. During the first class, your teacher will
tell you which, if any, additional book(s) he or she will use. All of these books are available on Reserve
in the Law Library.
Linda
H. Edwards, Legal Writing and Analysis (2003).
Twenty-one copies of this book are on LR&W Course Reserve.
Mary
Barnard Ray & Jill J. Ramsfield, Legal Writing: Getting It Right and
Getting It Written (4th ed. 2005).
Two copies of this book are on permanent Reserve.
This book may be purchased at the Law School Bookmart.
William
Strunk Jr. & E.B. White, The Elements of Style (4th ed. 2000).
Two copies of this book are on LR&W Course Reserve.
This book is available in the General Books department of the University Bookstore and in commercial bookstores.
Richard
C. Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers (5th ed. 2005).
One copy of the 5th edition is on permanent Reserve.
One copy of the 4th edition is on LR&W Course Reserve.
The 5th edition may be ordered through the Law School Bookmart.
Ring Binder or
Accordion File
Throughout the semester, you will receive handouts that explain
various legal research and writing tasks.
You will benefit from keeping all of the handouts in a binder or
folder. Eventually, this binder or
folder will become an extremely useful resource for you to use in later
semesters of law school and in your law-related jobs.