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Logic & Opinion Writing (JS 621)
Las Vegas, NVWhy should I take this course? Who should attend? This course invites judges to more carefully and thoroughly examine the underlying principles of logical reasoning as applied to their decision-making and opinion-writing. Judicial writing is often as important as the determinations. Opinions should serve as a reasoned statement that justifies the outcome judges have reached. […]
Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
Boston, MAAdvanced Judicial Writing (JS 626)
Reno, NVPre-Course writing assignment for Advanced Judicial Writing: Judges enrolled in the course will study style and argumentation each morning, then work intensively on individual writing projects each afternoon. One of the pre-course assignments is to submit two judicial decisions to be analyzed during the morning sessions. Please limit these two judicial decisions to be 10 […]