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Features of an Excellent Legal Research and Writing Program Rafael Dean Brown, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Law Foreign Graduate LL.M. Programs Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Every year, LL.M. applicants from various parts of the world struggle to make a complex decision: what is the best LL.M. program for me? This decision involves asking numerous complex questions about affordability, location, and a law school's curriculum. Most often, however, LL.M. applicants forget to ask the most important questions: (1) what do lawyers do, and (2) which program will teach me or help me to improve to do what lawyers do? As a lawyer and having taught at the LL.M. program at Case Western Reserve University School of Law for the past five years, I often find that LL.M. applicants often do not know or forget what it is that lawyers really do. Lawyers solve problems and lawyers write about how to solve problems. Most LL.M. applicants may focus their search for a program that teaches them how to solve a specific legal problem, say intellectual property law or international business. Yet, this is only one side of the coin. LL.M. 12

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applicants should also look for a program with an excellent legal research and writing curriculum. In weighing your options, you should look for LL.M. legal research and writing programs that have the following features: (1) electronic database research and citation training, (2) individualized writing workshops, (3) an approachable writing instructor or writing center, (4) teaches how to research and write legal briefs or memos, and (5) teaches how to research and write an academic legal research paper. Electronic database research training involves training in Lexis and Westlaw. Almost all law schools have an agreement with both Lexis and Westlaw for the companies to provide free research training for their students at the law school and free access to both online research databases while the student is in law school. The program should also teach students how to properly cite legal documents. Citations teach student to pay attention to detail, which is a critical lawyering skill.

Individualized workshops are important simply because most LL.M. programs will be composed of students from various countries. The research and writing center should be able to make suggestions to a student based on individual need. A student from Saudi Arabia will have different writing concerns than a student from Thailand, and LL.M. legal writing instructors should tailor their workshops accordingly. This helps when the writing instructor or writing center is approachable. The student should be able to ask the instructor questions about research and writing whenever there is one. An LL.M. writing program should also teach both the academic legal research paper and the legal brief. Most schools only teach one or the other. Yet, each is a different genre of legal writing that requires a different skill to master. The academic research paper teaches students how to be a scholar, which is an ongoing role tied to the responsibility of an attorney to engage in a dialogue about the law. The legal brief, on the other hand, teaches students how to make arguments, support arguments with relevant authorities, how to structure arguments, how to tell persuasive stories, and others. The legal brief is also the best method to train students to use the CRAC system, the standard rhetorical structure for U.S. legal writing, including law school exams. Before making a final decision, don't forget that lawyers are writers, and writing is perhaps the most important skill you must learn as a lawyer.

* Prof. Brown teaches US Legal Writing, Evidence, and Foreign Graduate Seminar.

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Located on a 160-acre campus in the center of Topeka, the capital of Kansas, Washburn University provides broadly-based liberal arts and professional education by combining the most effective modes of educating: accomplished faculty, small class sizes, state of the art technology, modern learning techniques and unique opportunities available through an interactive campus and community relationship. Since 1941, Washburn University has been continuously accredited or approved by the Higher Learning Commission: A Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, 30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60602-2504. Academic programs: Washburn offers more than 200 programs leading to certification,

Classes: 44 percent of undergraduate classes have fewer than 20 students. Student/faculty ratio: 16:1 Faculty: 84 percent of full-time faculty hold doctorates or the highest degree in their discipline. National recognition: Washburn is rated sixth in the Midwest among public master's level universities in the 2007 America's Best Colleges rankings issued by U.S. News and World Report. Washburn has earned a top 10 rating ten years in a row.

Washburn is home to KTWU, the first public television station in Kansas. Crane Observatory houses an 1898 Warner & Swasey refracting telescope. The Kuehne Bell Tower features a quartet of bells once housed in the clock tower of Thomas Gymnasium, which was destroyed during a 1966 tornado.

Graduates: More than 1,200 degrees and certificates are awarded annually. Also on campus: Recent additions to the campus include a Student Recreation & Wellness Center; an art building; Washburn Village, a 192-bed apartment-style housing complex; and Carole Chapel. A major project to renovate Stoffer Science Hall was completed in 2008. The Mulvane Art Museum is the oldest accredited art museum west of the Mississippi River. The

museum's permanent collection, though international in scope, emphasizes the work of artists of Kansas and the Midwest.

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If you want to go to one of the best colleges in New York, you'll just have to pay …less How do you measure the value of a college education? There is a lot being written today about the return on investment of a college degree. Many in the academic world will argue that you cannot measure an education in dollars and cents.

At Monroe College, yes, we turn out graduates who have the ability to think critically and the desire to act to improve their communities. But Monroe College delivers value. At Monroe we never lose sight of the fact that your college education must enable you to succeed in the real world. And to accomplish that, first and foremost, we must give you the tools, the support, and the flexibility to succeed at college – to stay in school and earn a degree. That is an area where Monroe College excels. Students at Monroe College stay to earn their degrees. Monroe's six-year graduation rate is over sixty percent, more than double the graduation rates at other 20

colleges in this area. Over available to Monroe students. 14,000 students have earned degrees from Monroe College Monroe is a college like no other in the New York area, over the last five years. more cosmopolitan, more Monroe offers classes at two focused on success and more campuses, in the Bronx and affordable. Monroe draws in New Rochelle, where new students from all over the beautiful and technologically- world and across the United advanced student residences States – young men and have been completed on women from six continents Main Street. In addition, and 23 states are working Monroe provides a complete towards their degrees at roster of classes online in Monroe. If you or your child every major – an online are beginning the college program that U.S. News and search process, you would be World Report cited as one of well served to include this the best in New York State unique institution of higher and one of the tops in the learning among your “mustsee” list. Ask an admissions country for veterans. counselor at Monroe College to give you an in-depth portrait. Ask to tour the campuses – you can schedule your tour on our website. Come and meet the Monroe c o m m u n i t y – t h e administrators, the faculty and the students who make And of critical importance, up the Monroe College Monroe College removes, family. perhaps, the biggest hurdles t o a c h i e v i n g a degree…expense. Monroe College is the “the Most Affordable Private College in New York State” according to U.S. News and World Report. And annually millions of dollars in grants, scholarships www.monroecollege.edu and financial aid are

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continue to enhance the way information is created, shared and managed, today's communication professional has to be digitally schooled in order to take advantage of these new opportunities. Northwestern students are effective users of advanced technologies, including RSS feeds, information graphics, and interactive tools that are shaping the future media landscape.

With the proliferation of global media and the evolution of digital technologies, communication has emerged as one of the most important and dynamic industries in the world. From mobile communication and wireless technology to the growth of online and specialist media, the relationship between communication, technology and society is continuing to evolve. At Northwestern University in Qatar, students learn what it takes to create, inform and connect in this exciting new world of global communication. Northwestern University in Qatar offers two academic programs one in communication and one in journalism.

Communication The School of Communication offers a Bachelor of Science in Communication degree. For more than 125 years, the school has been preparing students for management and creative roles in communication and media industries, and for responsible civic participation in the proliferating world of global media. The communication program offers courses of study in the areas of communication theory, history and media technologies. The program enables students to develop critical skills in communication. As new digital technologies

Alongside analytic coursework, students develop creative proficiency in the full range of communications disciplines. Whether editing their own films, writing screenplays, directing TV programs in studio, producing documentaries, developing computer animation, or designing a website, students graduate as highly skilled professionals ready to lead in their field of choice.

Journalism The Medill School of Journalism offers a Bachelor of Science in Journalism degree. With its distinguished history of training worldclass journalists since 1921, Northwestern helps students find their own voice within global media, preparing them to exercise leadership and creative vision in their chosen careers. The fully accredited program teaches students the essentials of reporting and storytelling across diverse media platforms. In keeping with its mission to produce informed journalists who are able to keep pace with the evolving world of journalism, students are instructed in all the media and take two thirds of their classes in liberal arts subjects such as literature, history, economics, and religion. This formula creates the high caliber journalists for which Medill and Northwestern are known. Northwestern students turn theory into practice through journalism residencies where they work in dynamic news environments, learning from real journalists and gaining insight into the hotbed of legal and ethical issues affecting media freedoms around the world. Students learn how to produce news pieces for television and how to market their ideas for articles; they learn the craft of writing features for magazines and then how to edit a tes go on

magazine; they learn community reporting and how to bring stories to life through photojournalism. Equipped with an extensive range of skills, graduates go on to forge successful careers in journalism, while others make their mark in public relations, advertising, education, law, and politics.

Student Life The Medill School of Journalism and the School of Communication have a long tradition of educating the whole student through a vast array of curricular and co-curricular opportunities. Student Affairs at Northwestern University in Qatar continues this tradition. The Northwestern student body is made up of active, friendly, dynamic, conscientious students who take an interest in the world around them and want to become leaders in and outside of the classroom. They are active in a range of student activities and organizations. Student Affairs Office at Northwestern University in Qatar coordinates student-led organizations, service learning trips, leadership training, study skill workshops and wellness and recreation opportunities to meet the needs and interests of NU-Q students.

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