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Law School Blog Focuses on Legal Journalism

By Robert Ambrogi

In 1884, two Portuguese men who could not speak a word of English wrote a guide to conversational English, English as She is Spoke. The result was so hilariously absurd that Mark Twain said of it, “Its immortality is secure.”

The blog Legal As She Is Spoke, a project of the Program in Law and Journalism at New York Law School, takes its title from that 19^th Century classic. Its focus is legal journalism and “the accuracy and felicity of reporting on law.”

Given the choice of title, we must assume that the authors believe that law does not always survive the translation to journalism. Nevertheless, the authors do a good job of covering the field — and in language we can well understand.

Full post as published by Lawsites on October 17, 2010 (boomark / email).