Legal Writing Faculty Publications
Selected Publications
Lorraine K. Bannai, Taking the Stand: The Lessons of Three Men Who Took the Japanese American Internment to Court, 4 Seattle J. for Soc. Justice 1 (2005).
Lorraine K. Bannai and Anne Enquist, (Un)Examined Assumptions and (Un)Intended Messages: Teaching Students to Recognize Bias in Legal Analysis and Language, 27 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1 (2003).
Lorraine K. Bannai, Anne Enquist, Judith Maier and Susan McClellan, Sailing Through Designing Memo Assignments, 5 Leg. Writing 193 (1999).
Lorraine K. Bannai and Marie Eaton, Fostering Diversity in the Legal Profession: A Model for Preparing Minority and Other Non-Traditional Students for Law School, 31 U.S.F. L. Rev. 821 (1997).
Deirdre M. Bowen, Calling Their Bluff: How Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys Adapt Plea Bargaining Strategies to Increased Formalization, 26 J. Quarterly __ (forthcoming 2009).
Deirdre M. Bowen, The Parent Trap: Differential Power in Same-sex Families Based on Legal and Cultural Understandings of Parentage, 15 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 1 (forthcoming 2009).
Merryn DeBenedetti, "Show Me "Show Me the Money?: Washington Adopts the Cost Prohibitive Defense to Arbitration Clauses in Consumer Contracts," 27 Seattle U. L. Rev. 899 (2004).
Anne Enquist, Unlocking the Secrets of Highly Successful Legal Writing Students, 82 St. John’s L. Rev. 609 (2008).
Anne Enquist, Substantive Editing vs. Technical Editing, 30 Stetson L. Rev. 451 (2000).
Anne Enquist, Critiquing and Evaluating Law Students’ Writing: Advice from 35 Experts, 22 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1119 (1999).
Jessie Grearson and Anne Enquist, A History of Writing Advisors at Law Schools: Looking at Our Past, Looking at Our Future, 5 Leg. Writing 55 (1999).
Anne Enquist, Critiquing Law Students’ Writing: What the Students Say Is Effective, 2 Leg. Writing 145 (1996).
Susan McClellan and Constance Krontz, Improving Legal Writing Courses: Perspectives from the Bench and Bar, 8 Leg. Writing 201 (2002).
Laurel Currie Oates, Did Harvard Get it Right? 59 Mercer L. Rev 675 (2008)
Laurel Currie Oates, Leveling the Playing Field: Helping Students Succeed by Helping Them Learn to Read as Expert Lawyers, 80 St. John's L. Rev. 227 (2006).
Laurel Currie Oates, I Know That I Taught Them How to Do That, 7 Leg. Writing 1 (2001).
Laurel Currie Oates, Beyond Communication: Writing as a Means of Learning, 6 Leg. Writing 1 (2000).
Laurel Currie Oates, Beating the Odds, Reading Strategies of Law Students Admitted Through Special Admissions Programs, 83 Iowa L. Rev. 139 (1997).
Laurel Currie Oates, Anne Enquist, and Constance Krontz, Just Briefs, Second Edition (Aspen 2008)
Laurel Currie Oates and Anne Enquist, The Legal Writing Handbook, Fourth Edition (Aspen 2006).
Laurel Currie Oates and Anne Enquist, Just Memos, Second Edition (Aspen 2006)
Laurel Currie Oates and Anne Enquist, Just Research (Aspen 2005)
Samuel S. Wineburg and Laurel Currie Oates, Education’s Promise, 3 Leg. Writing 1 (1997).
J. Christopher Rideout, "Penumbral Thinking Revisited: Metaphor in Legal Argumentation," 7 Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors 155 (2010).
J. Christopher Rideout, "Discipline-Building and Disciplinary Values: Thoughts on Legal Writing at Year Twenty-Five of the Legal Writing Institute," 16 Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 477 (2010).
J. Christopher Rideout, "Legal Writing: The View from Within" (with Jill J. Ramsfield), 61 Mercer Law Review 705 (2010).
J. Christopher Rideout, "Luncheon Speech (transcribed)," 61 Mercer Law Review 857 (2010).
J. Christopher Rideout, "Voice, Self, and Persona in Legal Writing," 15 Legal Writing: Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 67 (2009).
J. Christopher Rideout, Storytelling, Narrative Rationality, and Legal Persuasion, 14 Legal Writing: J. of the Leg. Writ. Institute 53 (2008).
J. Christopher Rideout, In Memorian: Joseph Williams, 14 Legal Writing: J. of the Leg. Writ. Institute ix (2008).
J. Christopher Rideout, Strangers in a Familiar Land, Jurist: Books-on-Law, October 2000, at 7 (reviewing Anthony G. Amsterdam & Jerome Bruner, Minding the Law (2000)).
J. Christopher Rideout, Scholarship in Legal Writing, in The Politics of Legal Writing: Proceedings of a Conference for Legal Research and Writing Program Directors, 75 (Jan Levine et al. eds., 1996).
J. Christopher Rideout, Legal Writing: A Revised View, 69 Washington Law Review 35 (1994).
Mimi Samuel and Laurel Currie Oates, From Oppression to Outsourcing: New Opportunities for Uganda’s Growing Number of Attorneys in Today’s Flattening World, 4 Seattle J. for Social Justice 836 (2006).
Mimi Samuel, Focus on Batson: Let the Cameras Roll, 74 Brook. L. Rev ___ (2008) (forthcoming).
Denis Stearns, Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2010, Seattle University School of Law Research Paper No. 11-06
Lisa A. Vincler and Mary F. Nicol Bowman, When Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: What Healthcare Practitioners and Facilities Should Know About Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 30 J. Health & Hosp. L. 160 (1997).
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