A collection of articles on legal writing, which explore interrelated concepts that underlie George Gopen’s Reader Expectation Approach.
Litigation Journal
Litigation Articles: From 2011 through 2023, George Gopen produced a 1,500-word article every three months for the American Bar Association’s journal for trial lawyers.
Scribes
Understanding Your Prewriting Process and Freeing Yourself from Guilt
Journal of the Legal Writing Institute
IRAC, REA, Where We Are Now, and Where We Should Be Going in the Teaching of Legal Writing
CCISSR (Color Coding for the Interpretation of Syntactic and Substantive Relationships): The Perfect Way to Teach Legal Writing Keynote Address at the 20th Anniversary Legal Writing Institute Conference
American Speech
Controlling Contexts: Interpretation and Expert Testimony
College English
Rhyme and Reason: Why the Study of Poetry Is the Best Preparation for the Study of Law
The University of Chicago Law Review
The University of Michigan Law Review
The State of Legal Writing: Res Ipsa Loquitur
Journal of Legal Education
A Composition Course for Pre-Law Students
Studies in The Age of Chaucer
Review of Joseph A. Hornsby’s Chaucer and the Law
The Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Review of John A. Alford’s Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction
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