I have a 5-page article on this coming out next year in the Journal of Legal Education, and I’d love to get people’s feedback on it. Unfortunately, while the Journal is great about leaving authors with unlimited rights to redistribute the article after it’s published, it’s behind the law reviews in letting authors post prepublication drafts on blogs and on SSRN. But if you’re interested in looking over this, just e-mail me at volokh at law.ucla.edu, and I’ll gladly send you a draft. Here are some excerpts:
We often mark up student papers, and note errors in grammar, spelling, and word choice. But, unfortunately, much of what we know about such supposed