{"id":1254,"date":"2013-04-08T09:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2013-04-08T09:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:43:59","slug":"more-guidance-for-law-clerks-and-externs-and-a-book-for-new-law-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2013\/04\/08\/more-guidance-for-law-clerks-and-externs-and-a-book-for-new-law-students\/","title":{"rendered":"More guidance for law clerks and externs, and a book for new law students"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of months ago, we featured here a guide for law clerks and externs<\/a>.\u00a0 Now, we have another title that should help law clerks and externs greatly: the third edition of Judge Ruggero Aldisert’s Opinion Writing<\/em>.\u00a0 Judge Aldisert is Chief Judge Emeritus and Senior U.S. Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.\u00a0 His handbook includes discussions of, among other things, the process of reaching and justifying a decision, the different sections of an opinion, and writing style, and offers checklists for both appellate opinions and trial court opinions.\u00a0 He offers suggestions for using the book by experienced and new judges and law clerks.\u00a0 For the latter, he says: “This book is for you.\u00a0 Start reading this book your very first day on the job” (p. xxx).<\/p>\n

Opinion Writing<\/em><\/a> is available on two-hour reserve at the Law Library’s circulation desk.<\/p>\n

For a slightly different audience is Cracking the Case Method: Legal Analysis for Law School Success<\/em>, by Paul Bergman, Patrick Goodman, and Thomas Holm, all of UCLA.\u00a0 Professor Bergman and his colleagues explain the process of legal analysis — that is, the “process of distilling discrete legal issues from stories and developing arguments to support the resolution of those legal issues” (p. xi) — for beginning law students.\u00a0 They include a discussion of final exam strategies.<\/p>\n

Cracking the Case Method<\/em><\/a> is available for check-out at the Law Library.<\/p>\n

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A couple of months ago, we featured here a guide for law clerks and externs.\u00a0 Now, we have another title that should help law clerks and externs greatly: the third edition of Judge Ruggero Aldisert’s Opinion Writing.\u00a0 Judge Aldisert is Chief Judge Emeritus and Senior U.S. Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4537],"tags":[4553],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}