The Labor and Employment Lab Short Course: Learning the Art of Legal Blog Writing

1 credits · Law School

In this mini-course, students will engage with some of the most pressing contemporary questions in labor and employment law and will collaboratively develop, draft, and edit blog posts on those questions for publication in the OnLabor blog. The course will equip students to identify the markers of successful examples of this form of legal writing, a form that in modern practice often reaches more readers and has more impact (on practitioners and decisionmakers) than traditional forms of scholarship and advocacy. Classroom time will be split between discussion of new caselaw and emerging legal rules, and interactive engagement with peers and the instructor to identify promising topics and collaboratively produce, critique, and revise posts of 1000-1200 words. Completion of Labor Law or Employment Law is helpful but not required. Enrollment limited. Pass/Fail. [1]