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20 U.S.F. L. Rev. 445 (1985-1986)
How to Write a Law Review Article

handle is hein.journals/usflr20 and id is 459 raw text is: How to Write a Law Review Article * By RICHARD DELGADO Professor of Law, UCLA Law School; J.D., University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall (1974). Introduction HAVE BEEN ASKED TO SPEAK on how to write a law review article. Like many, I find it much easier to write something than to talk about my thought processes during that writing. Neverthe- less, I have tried to distill out a series of observations, tips, short cuts, and so on that I, personally, would have found helpful had someone passed them on to me when I was starting out. Good law reviews convey many of them to their new members at orientation time. For many of you, these observations will be old hat; for this, I apologize. Also, I should state at the outset that I have included little in the way of political or critical analysis of law review writ- ing. I have written elsewhere about that.' Some of the matters I expect to touch on in this talk are I. Why write a law review article at all, in preference to some- thing else, a book or political satire, for example? II. What varieties of law review article are there? Presumably more than just the classic case cruncher. What are some of the other kinds? III. Topics-where to get them? How to know a good one when you see it? IV. Research strategies. V. Footnotes and theory of authority. • This article is a slightly edited version of an address given during the Minority Law Professors' Conference which was held at the University of San Francisco School of Law on October 26, 1985. 1, Delgado, The Imperial Scholar: Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature, 132 U. PA. L. REV. 561 (1984).

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