Volume 1
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From the Editor ................................................................................................................................................. v
Articles and Essays
Literary Allusion in Legal Writing The Haynsworth-Wright Letters
by Charles Alan Wright .................................................................................................................. 1
by Richard C. Wydick ...................................................................................................................... 7
Why Judges Have Nothing to Tell Lawyers About Writing
by Steven Stark ................................................................................................................................ 25
Extremist Drafting of Federal Statutes
by John A. Bell .................................................................................................................................. 31
Not So Fast on the Crits: A Grudging Tribute (or Concession) to Crit Style
by John D. Ayer ................................................................................................................................ 45
A Few of Wisdom's Idiosyncrasies and a Few of Ignorance's: A Judicial Style Sheet
by Thomas Gibbs Gee .................................................................................................................... 55
by James W. McElhaney .............................................................................................................. 63
Why the First-Year Legal-Writing Course Cannot Do Much About Bad Legal Writing
by Douglas Laycock ...................................................................................................................... 83
Student Essays
Reaction and Distraction: The Pronoun Problem in Legal Persuasion
by Beverly Ray Burlingame ...................................................................................................... 87
Unmasking Jargon as Substance: How the Crits Have Made a Dialect out of Dialectic
by Owen Peter Martikan ........................................................................................................... 111
by Susan K. Rushing ........................................................................................................................ 125
Notes and Queries
by Thomas A. Woxland .................................................................................................................. 143
Choosing Between Shall and Must in Legal
Drafting
by Reed Dickerson ..................................................................................................................... 144
"Numerous Misspelled Words Corrected"
by Thomas A. Woxland ................................................................................................................. 147
by James A. R. Nafziger ................................................................................................................. 149
In-House Editors: Letting the Experts Do It
by Mark Mathewson ...................................................................................................................... 152
by Stephen F. Fink .......................................................................................................................... 156
Book Reviews
by Robert A. Chaim ........................................................................................................................ 159
by Christopher Simoni ................................................................................................................. 167
by Robert Barr Smith .................................................................................................................... 175
The Maroonbook v. The Bluebook: A Comparative Review
by Douglas Laycock .................................................................................................................. 181
An Uninformed System of Citation: The Maroonbook Blues
by Bryan A. Garner .................................................................................................................. 191
Book Notices .............................................................................................................................................. 197
Notes on Contributors ........................................................................................................................... 201
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