Constitutional Law 312 – Heads of Argument

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…)

Three things that poetry can teach you about good legal writing – by Adv Gregory Solik

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…)