Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Good gift for any first-year law student:
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. And you can still order a personally
signed version from me (I just got 25 copies from the publisher) --
just send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a paypal draft for $26.50
($20.95 cover price, plus $4.50 for postage and the envelope, and
$1.05 to cover the paypal fee), or $28.23 if you're in California, to
cover the sales tax, 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 (for those amounts
minus the paypal $1.05) and those two all-important pieces of
information to:
Eugene Volokh
UCLA School of Law
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
If you'd like an unpersonalized copy, I'd be happy to provide that,
too; you'll also be able to buy the book soon from amazon.com and
barnesandnoble.com, but because of some bureaucratic glitches, the
book isn't available there yet (rats!).
Incidentally, if you order by paypal today, I'll ship it out today, so
I'm pretty sure that it will arrive by Christmas (though I can't make
any promises). If you order Monday, I'll ship it out then, but the
odds of its arriving by Christmas would be less. On the other hand, I
suspect that the recipients aren't at an age at which they insist that
all their gifts be under their trees on Christmas morning, so maybe
even a book delayed by a few days would still be appreciated. And you
can of course always bill it as a New Year's gift . . .
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