Cotterrell on The Craft of Writing in Legal Scholarship

Roger Cotterrell, Roger, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, is publishing The Craft of Writing in Legal Scholarship in volume 76 of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. Here is the abstract.

This short essay is a contribution to a series of commissioned ‘Reflections on Writing’ that treat the activity of writing as a fundamental but often insufficiently examined aspect of legal research and scholarship. The essay reflects on various types of contemporary writing in legal contexts, their motivations, aims, and methods, and on the author’s personal approach to writing in some of these different contexts.

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.