The second edition of my Academic Legal Writing textbook has just been published, and it now covers how to get onto law review — with, among other things, lots of tips on write-on competitions — as well as how to write the student articles that law review members (and others) write. Most first-year law students think about participating in law review write-on competitions; at UCLA, for instance, about 1/3 actually compete, and more seriously consider it. This means that your friends or relatives who just started law school would likely find the book to be a great present.
Of course, the book also continues to be helpful for second and third year law students, too, whether they’re on law review, in a seminar, writing their mandatory upper-division paper, or working on an independent writing project. The book should be available from amazon; make sure you order the Third Edition (that’s the link to which I just pointed).
For the Third Edition, the publisher is no longer sending me author’s copies for signing and resale; but if you’d like me to send you a free personalized bookplate (basically just a label) to be pasted inside the book, just e-mail me at volokh@law.ucla.edu and tell me (1) the name and address to which you want the bookplate sent, and (2) the inscription you’d like me to use.
And you can still order a personally signed version from me (I just got 25 copies from the publisher) — just send to volokh@mail.law.ucla.edu a paypal draft for $27.99 [UPDATE: price revised to equal the amazon cost, including shipping], together with (1) the name and address to which you want the book sent, and (2) the inscription you’d like me to use. Or, if you prefer snail-mail, just send a check and those two all-important pieces of information to:
Eugene Volokh
UCLA School of Law
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Unpersonalized copies are also available from Legal Books Distributing. The book is also available at amazon.com, but amazon threatens that the book will ship within twelve to fourteen days; Legal Books Distributing should be much quicker.
UPDATE: Eighteen books ordered; 7 still left. I’m sending them Priority Mail, which is usually 2 to 3 day delivery — at the post office, they told me that books sent today will almost certainly arrive by Christmas, and books sent Monday probably will but might not.
FURTHER UPDATE: The publisher has been great about sending me new copies of the book after I run out of the old ones (I’ve sold over 50 so far); so if you order one, there’ll be no problem getting it to you.
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