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Author:   Teresa Kissane Brostoff (Professor and Director of Legal Writing, Professor and Director of Legal Writing, University of Pittsburgh School of Law) ,  Ann Sinsheimer (Professor of Legal Writing, Professor of Legal Writing, University of Pittsburg School of Law)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9780199895458

ISBN 10:   0199895457
Pages:   470
Publication Date:   30 May 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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SECTION I. THE LAW SCHOOL CLASSROOM Chapter 1 - Skills Chapter 2 - The Legal System Chapter 3 - Reading and Briefing Cases SECTION II. USING THE LAW TO PREDICT AND PERSUADE Chapter 4 - Using Cases Chapter 5 - Using Statutes Chapter 6 - Synthesizing Cases Chapter 7 - Appellate Advocacy Chapter 8 - Client Interviews and Negotiation SECTION III. INDEPENDENT WRITING AND RESEARCH Chapter 9 - Working Independently APPENDICES Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Pennsylvania and U.S. Constitutions Appendix C: Sample Brief and Memorandum Appendix D: Sample Appellate Briefs Appendix E: Neff v. Lasso, 555 A.2d 1304 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1989) Appendix F: Sample Student Memo on International Arbitration Exercise Appendix G: Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, 526 U.S. 629 (1999) Appendix H: Answer Key

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Teresa Kissane Brostoff is Professor and Director of Legal Writing at University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She researches, writes, and lectures on legal writing methodology and pedagogy, including methods of teaching international students. Professor Brostoff has taught English for Lawyers in many countries, including Serbia, Ukraine, Kosovo under State Department auspices, Iceland as a distinguished Fulbright Scholar, Japan, Poland, Ethiopia as an invited lecturer, Belgium as a Fulbright Senior Specialist and member of the EU LLM. faculty, and Bahrain under Department of Commerce sponsorship. Prior to joining the Pittsburgh Law faculty, Professor Brostoff clerked for the Honorable Justin M. Johnson on the Pennsylvania Superior Court. She also has recently been appointed to the Fulbright Peer Review Selection Committee in Law. Ann Sinsheimer is Professor of Legal Writing at University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She has extensive experience as a teacher and consultant of legal and technical writing, and of English as a Second Language. She co-teaches a summer intensive program for international lawyers, and has had the opportunity to teach this course overseas in Ethiopia, Serbia, Belgium, Iceland, and other countries. She served as a lecturer and consultant at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan's English Language Institute. Before joining the faculty at Pittsburgh, Professor Sinsheimer worked at the University of Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.

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