Charles R. Calleros - Legal Method and Writing I: Predictive Writing

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Rachel E. Barkow

Vice Dean and Charles Seligson Professor of Law

Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy

Faculty Director, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law

New York University School of Law

Erwin Chemerinsky

Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law

University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Richard A. Epstein

Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law

New York University School of Law

Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow

The Hoover Institution

Senior Lecturer in Law

The University of Chicago

Ronald J. Gilson

Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business

Stanford University

Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business

Columbia Law School

James E. Krier

Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law Emeritus

The University of Michigan Law School

Tracey L. Meares

Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law

Director, The Justice Collaboratory

Yale Law School

Richard K. Neumann, Jr.

Alexander Bickel Professor of Law

Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

Robert H. Sitkoff

Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law

John L. Gray Professor of Law

Harvard Law School

David Alan Sklansky

Stanley Morrison Professor of Law

Faculty Co-Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center

Stanford Law School

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N inth E dition

C harles R. C alleros

P rofessor of L aw

A rizona S tate U niversity

K imberly Y.W. H olst

C linical P rofessor of L aw

A rizona S tate U niversity

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Copyright 2022 Charles R. Calleros and Kimberly Y.W. Holst

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Calleros, Charles R., author. | Holst, Kimberly Y.W., author.

Title: Legal method and writing / Charles R. Calleros, Professor of Law, Arizona State University; Kimberly Y.W. Holst, Clincial Professor of Law, Arizona State University.

Description: Ninth edition. | Frederick, MD: Aspen Publishing, [2022] |

Series: Aspen coursebook series | Includes index. | Summary: A comprehensive text covering both objective and persuasive writing components of the first-year Legal Writing law school courseProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021054884 (print) | LCCN 2021054885 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781543849516 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781543849523 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Legal composition. | LawUnited States--Methodology.

Classification: LCC KF250 .C345 2022 (print) | LCC KF250 (ebook) |

DDC 808.06/634dc23/eng/20211109

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021054884

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021054885

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Dedications

To the much loved additions to our families: Miles, Archie, Bernie, Daisy, Freddy, and Penelope (one grandson and five rescue dogs, all adorable) Charles and Debbie Calleros

To my parents, Yong Sun and Lyle Wilson, for never telling me that things were impossible Kimberly Holst

In Loving Memory of Mary Lawrence,

A pioneer in our field, and

A lovely human being,

Whose generous spirit

brought us together in celebration,

to her great joy and ours.

Charles Calleros and Kimberly Holst

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