Fighting the Fog, or Writing Clearly for Lawyers

Dense writing can obscure good arguments. The more complex an issue is, the more clearly we need to write about it. This six-week course focuses on the three ‘c’s of clear scholarly writing in law: cohesion, coherence, and concision. It also considers if and when to use nominalisation, how to 'tell a story' in legal writing, and how to construct paragraphs that help the reader to follow your argument.