Legal Writing and Research Scholarship at Mercer

Law Review and Peer-Edited Articles and Book Chapters (Legal Writing)

Victoria S. Salzmann and Philip T. Dunwoody, An Empirical Analysis of Prime-time Law: The End to "Legal Reelism?" (in circulation for publication).

David Hricik and Victoria S. Salzmann, The Social and Practical Need for Post-Modern Legal Scholars to Publish Engaged Scholarship, (in circulation for publication).

Jack Lee Sammons, A Rhetorician's View of Religious Speech in Civic Discourse (in progress).

Linda H. Edwards, Scholarship By Legal Writing Professors: New Voices In the Legal Academy, Journal of Legal Writing (2005) (co-authored).

Jennifer L. Sheppard, The ALWD Citation Manual: A Grammar Guide to the Language of Legal Citation, 26 UALR L.J. 573 (2004).

Michael R. Smith, The Next Frontier: Exploring the Substance of Legal Writing, 2 J. Assoc. Legal Writing Directors 1 (2004).

Michael R. Smith, Alternative Substantive Approaches to Advanced Legal Writing Courses, 54 J. Leg. Educ. 119 (2004).

Jack Lee Sammons, Cheater! The Central Moral Admonition of Legal Ethics, Games, Lusory Attitiudes, Internal Perspectives and Justice, 39 Idaho L. Rev. 273 (2003).

David Hricik, The American Legal System, in Laurence Behrens, Argument and Persuasion: Writing in the Disciplines (Univ. Of Fla. 2003).

Jack Lee Sammons, Traditionalists, Technicians, and Legal Education, 38 Gonzaga L. Rev. 237 (2002/03).

Adam A. Milani & Michael R. Smith, Playing God: A Critical Look at Sua Sponte Decisions By Appellate Courts, 69 Tenn. L. Rev. 245 (2002).

David Hricik, The American Legal System, in Laurence Behrens & Leonard J. Rosen, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 7th ed. 2000).

Jack Lee Sammons, The Radical Ethics of Legal Rhetoricians, 32 Valparaiso L. Rev. 93 (1998).

Linda H. Edwards, The Process and the Product: A Bibliography of Scholarship About Legal Scholarship, 49 Mercer L. Rev. 741 (1998).

Linda H. Edwards, The Convergence of Analogical and Dialectic Imaginations in Legal Discourse, 20 Legal Stud. F. 7 (1996) (lead article).

Jack Lee Sammons, The Search for Good Lawyering: A Concept and Model of Lawyering Competencies, 29 Cleveland State Law Review 297 (1980), with Cort; translated into Spanish for use in Argentina in 1995.

Jack Lee Sammons, Professing: Some Thoughts on Professionalism and Classroom Teaching, 3 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 609 (1990).

Jack Lee Sammons, The Search for Good Lawyering: Some Approaches to Resolving an Historical Debate, 1 Antioch Law Journal 7 (1981), with Cort. Reprinted as a six-part series in ALI-ABA CLE Review, Volume 31 (1982).