by Admin | Aug 4, 2017 | Strategic Legal Writing
Please take note of the below:
1 Introduction
- Provide some context – what are you writing about; why; and what will the paper be (e.g. a critical analysis of…)?
2 Research problem
- Write about the specific issues involved (e.g. obligations under the Rome Statute; Immunity)
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by Admin | Jul 24, 2017 | Strategic Legal Writing
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears …”
Download the slides by clicking on the hyperlink below / Laai die skyfies af deur op die hiperskakel hieronder te kliek:
Good luck!
Chantelle Hough Louw
by Admin | Mar 14, 2017 | Strategic Legal Writing
Dear Students
As promised, an additional few tips on how to approach your heads of argument assignment. [Afrikaans volg na Engels]:
Heads of Argument:
This is a short guideline on a few important technical aspects of the heads of argument. DO NOT USE this document as an all-encompassing guideline for your heads of argument but rather see this as a helpful extra resource to use after you have read and considered all the relevant material and guidelines as provided in the writing guide. (more…)
by Chantelle | Oct 29, 2016 | Legal professionals share their views, Strategic Legal Writing, This makes for interesting reading
Introduction
In a conversation about poetry, US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan says that she doesn’t read it much.
Besides being purposefully opaque, she muses, it’s as though, ‘the author is trying too hard to make you not understand something. And you have to work too hard to figure it out.’ Poetry, Justice Kagan goes on to say, is a kind of fancy-schmancy elevated language, which, ‘thinks too well of itself.’ (more…)