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An easy way to improve law school grades

By Pamela

Advice from The Volokh Conspiracy, a blog written by law professors.  If they don’t know how to get good grades, who does?

(1) Take at least one class with a paper requirement/option. (2) Get to work on the paper right away. (3) Ask the professor in advance if he will give you comments on your paper if you get him a draft early enough, say, by Thanksgiving. (4) Finish a draft paper by Thanksgiving, and give it to the professor for comments. (Don’t forget to consult Eugene’s* book!) (5) Edit the paper based on your professor’s comments. If you put some effort into the paper, and paid attention to his comments, you will get a good grade, and very possibly a great grade. (6) Because you have finished the bulk of the work on your paper before Thanksgiving, use the extra time to study for your exams.

*Eugene Volokh, Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review (2nd ed. 2005).

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Full post as published by Cocky Law Blawg on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).