Law Students, where can I find a "hot' legal topic to write about?
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 8:09 pm
I am going to write a law article. Where do I look for some "hot" legal topics?
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It is not getting me very good results. Do you have any specific resources you would use, besides search engines?cavalier1138 wrote:Please search, "hot legal topic" on Google and screenshot the results for us.
What about the picture results?Mark Aldridge wrote:It is not getting me very good results. Do you have any specific resources you would use, besides search engines?cavalier1138 wrote:Please search, "hot legal topic" on Google and screenshot the results for us.
Are these threads on top law schools?cavalier1138 wrote:What about the picture results?Mark Aldridge wrote:It is not getting me very good results. Do you have any specific resources you would use, besides search engines?cavalier1138 wrote:Please search, "hot legal topic" on Google and screenshot the results for us.
Have you tried "hot xxx legal topic"? Or "hot barely legal topic"?
Our journal requires it I think. So I will be in this same situation soon enough.A. Nony Mouse wrote:Why would you write a law article if you have no ideas for a topic?
But the OP is a 0L.IsThisForReal wrote:Our journal requires it I think. So I will be in this same situation soon enough.A. Nony Mouse wrote:Why would you write a law article if you have no ideas for a topic?
To put it on my resume and make me look interested in the law. Maybe I can make some connections that way when people see my name in print. I am interested in the law in general I just would like to hone down on a topic.A. Nony Mouse wrote:Why would you write a law article if you have no ideas for a topic?
Looks like we are in the same boat! Do you know what you are going to write about?IsThisForReal wrote:Our journal requires it I think. So I will be in this same situation soon enough.A. Nony Mouse wrote:Why would you write a law article if you have no ideas for a topic?
Oh. That's dumb. OP, you're trying to hard. Take a vacayA. Nony Mouse wrote:But the OP is a 0L.IsThisForReal wrote:Our journal requires it I think. So I will be in this same situation soon enough.A. Nony Mouse wrote:Why would you write a law article if you have no ideas for a topic?
Where do you want to publish it? How do you expect to have anything useful to say on a legal topic yet?Mark Aldridge wrote:To put it on my resume and make me look interested in the law. Maybe I can make some connections that way when people see my name in print. I am interested in the law in general I just would like to hone down on a topic.A. Nony Mouse wrote:Why would you write a law article if you have no ideas for a topic?
Do you have any suggestions for resources for cutting edge legal issues and topics?
I am actually on vacay right now! That's why I have some time to write my article. Any ideas of where to look for topics?IsThisForReal wrote:Oh. That's dumb. OP, you're trying to hard. Take a vacayA. Nony Mouse wrote:But the OP is a 0L.IsThisForReal wrote:Our journal requires it I think. So I will be in this same situation soon enough.A. Nony Mouse wrote:Why would you write a law article if you have no ideas for a topic?
I'm going to publish it with a real lawyer - that's my "in." We'll be co-authors. I want to publish it in a trade journal or maybe on an on-line publication.A. Nony Mouse wrote:Where do you want to publish it? How do you expect to have anything useful to say on a legal topic yet?Mark Aldridge wrote:To put it on my resume and make me look interested in the law. Maybe I can make some connections that way when people see my name in print. I am interested in the law in general I just would like to hone down on a topic.A. Nony Mouse wrote:Why would you write a law article if you have no ideas for a topic?
Do you have any suggestions for resources for cutting edge legal issues and topics?
Go read a book that has nothing to do with law. Trust meMark Aldridge wrote:I am actually on vacay right now! That's why I have some time to write my article. Any ideas of where to look for topics?IsThisForReal wrote:Oh. That's dumb. OP, you're trying to hard. Take a vacayA. Nony Mouse wrote:But the OP is a 0L.IsThisForReal wrote:Our journal requires it I think. So I will be in this same situation soon enough.A. Nony Mouse wrote:Why would you write a law article if you have no ideas for a topic?
I can make it happen.browniestasty wrote:If you can make it happen with less than (arbitrarily decided) 5 hours of work... sure.
Otherwise you're better off studying for the LSAT.
Yes I am serious about it. There are a lot of naysayers on this board though that's for sure.cavalier1138 wrote:Are we still treating this seriously?
Thanks!
I have no idea what thought you are trying to conveyEee666 wrote:Seconding the advice to search for "barely legal" topics. A lot of legal scholarship is concerned with liminality - that is, given that we must draw a categorical distinction somewhere on a gradient of conduct/consequences/whatever, where do we choose to draw that line, and, more importantly, why? For you in particular OP, a relatively straightforward and highly publishable exercise would be to explain why some conduct is "barely legal", and explore the different ways the legal system has arrived at that point (or, why other systems have chosen to draw the line elsewhere, necessitating an exploration of what's "barely legal" in those jurisdictions too.)
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Then you're an idiot who needs to stop wasting peoples timeMark Aldridge wrote:this was not helpful