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Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing for International Graduate Students, Fifth Edition

• Nadia E. Nedzel

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Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing for International Graduate Students, Fifth Edition , helps international students understand and approach legal reasoning and writing the way law students and attorneys do in the United States. With concise and clear text, Professor Nedzel introduces the unique and important features of the American legal system and American law schools. Using clear instruction, examples, visual aids, and practice exercises, she teaches practical lawyering skills with sensitivity to the challenges of ESL students.

New to the Fifth Edition:

• Streamlined presentation makes the material even more accessible. Chapters are short, direct, and to the point.
• Five chapters on reasoning and writing, including exam skills, office memos, and rewriting.
• Full chapters on contract drafting and scholarly writing.
• New flowcharts provide a concise, visual overview for each chapter.
• Citation coverage updated to new 21st edition of The Bluebook.
• Simplified examples and exercises.
• Three thoroughly revised chapters on legal research, including non-fee legal research and technological changes in the practice of U.S. law.

Professors and student will benefit from:

• Comparative perspective informs readers about the unique features of American law as compared to civil law, Islamic law, and Asian traditions.
• Explanations of practical skills assume no former knowledge of the American legal system.
• U.S. law school necessary skills explained immediately: case briefing, creating a course outline, time management, reading citations, and writing answers to hypothetical exam questions.
• Short, lucid chapters that reiterate major points to aid comprehension.
• Clear introductions to writing hypothetical-based exams, legal memoranda, contract drafting and scholarly writing.
• An integrated approach to proper citation format, with explanation and instruction provided in context.
• Discussion of plagiarism and U.S. law school honor codes.
• Practical skill-building exercises in each chapter.
• Research exercises are primarily Internet-based
• Charts and summaries that are useful learning aids and reference tools

Examples & Explanations for Legal Research

Examples & explanations for legal writing, fourth edition.

Nadia Nedzel is an assistant professor of law at Southern University Law Center. She teaches civil procedure, sales and leases, obligations, advanced legal writing, contracts, and international business transactions. Professor Nedzel came to SULC from Tulane University School of Law, where she served for five years as the director of Graduate Legal Studies and Exchange Programs and lecturer in law, teaching Introduction to American Law and Legal Research and Writing to International LL.M. candidates. A former judicial clerk for Judge Carl E. Stewart, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Professor Nedzel was staff attorney for the Fifth Circuit, held the Forrester Teaching Fellowship at Tulane Law School, and practiced admiralty and international trade with Preis, Kraft and Roy, a law firm with offices in New Orleans, Lafayette, and Houston. Professor Nedzels scholarly interests include international and comparative commercial law and jurisprudence, specifically the interrelationship among market economies, technology, and law. Her published articles include comparative studies of good faith and fair dealing, suretyship, and others. Her most recent publication is Legal Research and Writing for International Graduate Students. She has also authored two upcoming major articles: "Antidumping and Cotton Subsidies: A Market-based Defense of Unfair Trade Remedies, " Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business (vol. 83, forthcoming 2008) and "Eminent Domain: A Legal and Economic Critique, Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender, and Class " (with Walter Block)(forthcoming 2008). Professor Nedzel earned a J.D. magna cum laude from Loyola University School of Law (New Orleans), and an LL.M. with honors from Northwestern University School of Law, focusing on international and comparative commercial law. Her Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University includes a triple major in English, French, and comparative literature (Spanish, French, Russian) with advanced hard science and math courses.

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Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing for International Graduate Students, Fifth Edition, helps international students understand and approach legal reasoning and writing the way law students and attorneys do in the United States. With concise and clear text, Professor Nedzel introduces the unique and important features of the American legal system and American law schools. Using clear instruction, examples, visual aids, and practice exercises, she teaches practical lawyering skills with sensitivity to the challenges of ESL students. New to the Fifth Edition: Streamlined presentation makes the material even more accessible. Chapters are short, direct, and to the point. Five chapters on reasoning and writing, including exam skills, office memos, and rewriting. Full chapters on contract drafting and scholarly writing. New flowcharts provide a concise, visual overview for each chapter. Citation coverage updated to new 21st edition of The Bluebook. Simplified examples and exercises. Three thoroughly revised chapters on legal research, including non-fee legal research and technological changes in the practice of U.S. law. Professors and student will benefit from: Comparative perspective informs readers about the unique features of American law as compared to civil law, Islamic law, and Asian traditions. Explanations of practical skills assume no former knowledge of the American legal system. U.S. law school necessary skills explained immediately: case briefing, creating a course outline, time management, reading citations, and writing answers to hypothetical exam questions. Short, lucid chapters that reiterate major points to aid comprehension. Clear introductions to writing hypothetical-based exams, legal memoranda, contract drafting and scholarly writing. An integrated approach to proper citation format, with explanation and instruction provided in context. Discussion of plagiarism and U.S. law school honor codes. Practical skill-building exercises in each chapter. Research exercises are primarily Internet-based Charts and summaries that are useful learning aids and reference tools

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