Reading Law Review pieces, other suggestions
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 9:03 pm
There's probably some thread on here somewhere about this topic, but I can't seem to find one.
Basically, I was wondering if anyone had particular strategies for reading longer law review articles effectively/efficiently - or if you know of any good resources for this kind of thing.
I'm not looking for advice to read a twenty or thirty-page piece. I mean hardcore, 100+ page, super-dense pieces of scholarship. For example, right now I'm trying to get through "Property, Utility, and Fairness" by Michelman, and I just can't wrap my head around any of it because it's a dense theoretical argument spread out over some 95 pages of dense type. I don't even know how to begin with it... do I skim, then read? Do I write an outline as I go along? Do I start with questions to get out of it? (it's an assigned reading for a property course).
But yeah, any suggestions are cool.
Basically, I was wondering if anyone had particular strategies for reading longer law review articles effectively/efficiently - or if you know of any good resources for this kind of thing.
I'm not looking for advice to read a twenty or thirty-page piece. I mean hardcore, 100+ page, super-dense pieces of scholarship. For example, right now I'm trying to get through "Property, Utility, and Fairness" by Michelman, and I just can't wrap my head around any of it because it's a dense theoretical argument spread out over some 95 pages of dense type. I don't even know how to begin with it... do I skim, then read? Do I write an outline as I go along? Do I start with questions to get out of it? (it's an assigned reading for a property course).
But yeah, any suggestions are cool.