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Integrating an Oral Presentation Assignment into a Course on Drafting Contracts

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Integrating an Oral Presentation Assignment into a Course on Drafting Contracts

Patricia Montana

Professor of Legal Writing

Director of Street Law: Legal Education in the Community Program

The Ethics of Visual Legal Rhetoric

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Mise en Scene and the Decisive Moment of Visual Legal Rhetoric

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Cartoon Contracts and the Proactive Visualization of Law

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Whiteboard and Black-Letter: Visual Communication in Commercial Contracts

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Promoting Business Success Through Contract Visualization

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Visualization: Seeing Contracts for What They Are, and What They Could Become

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Should Students Read and Apply Cases in a Contract Drafting Class?

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I’ve been looking for ways to teach contract drafting to my students in a way that is more like what I did in practice. Teaching students to write clearly and unambiguously is an important component of any drafting class. But students need to also learn how to apply the statutes and cases to contract clauses. When I practiced law, I contributed to the substance of the documents I drafted so I thought my students would be better prepared if I had them read and apply cases in my class.

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