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Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing for International Graduate Students, Sixth Edition

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  • Nadia E. Nedzel
Series / Aspen Coursebook Series
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Table of contents
Preface

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Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing for International Graduate Students, Sixth Edition, helps international students understand and approach legal research and writing assignments the way law students and attorneys do in the United States. With a comparative perspective enhanced by her training in a bi-jural legal system and experience teaching students from all over the world, Professor Nedzel introduces the unique and important features of the American legal system and American law schools. 

Using clear instruction, examples, visual aids, and practice exercises, she teaches practical lawyering skills with sensitivity to the challenges of ESL students. The book begins with the immediate survival skills that students need to be successful, such as case briefing, creating a course outline, reading citations, and writing answers to hypothetical exam questions. The following chapters cover all the key skills, with 6 chapters on reasoning and writing and 5 on research. Citation format information is integrated into the text, allowing instructors to discuss requirements in context.

New to the Sixth Edition:

  • New Chapter 12 on using generative AI in legal research and writing, discussing how AI is changing the study and practice of law.
  • Updated examples and exercises throughout the text.

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Streamlined presentation that makes the material easily accessible.
  • Helpful examples and exercises throughout the book that help students learn to apply skills.
  • Exercises in each chapter that can be done online as well as in the law library, with either commercial or non-commercial websites.
  • Well-designed examples for international students that are limited to very simple concepts in criminal law, tort, and contracts until the later chapters when subjects more of interest to LL.M. candidates are used, such as trademark and international business transactions.
  • Flowcharts and checklists for visual learners.
  • Three chapters on objective legal writing, including exam writing and office memo, rewriting, and scholarly articles.
  • Chapter on contract drafting, oriented towards international business transactions.
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Table of Contents
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Contents 
Preface for the Sixth Edition 
Acknowledgments
 

Introduction and Survival Skills (Case Briefing and Outlining)
Chapter 1 United States Common Law
Chapter 2 Introduction to American Legal Research and the Federal System
Chapter 3 Legal Reasoning and Objective Legal Writing: IRAC,
the Hypothetical Exam, and the Interoffice Memo
Chapter 4 The Legal Process 
Chapter 5 The Research Process
Chapter 6 Researching and Updating Case Law 
Chapter 7 Researching and Interpreting Constitutions, Statutes,
Regulations, and International Law 
Chapter 8 Rewriting and Style 
Chapter 9 Technology in U.S. Law and Non-Fee CALR 
Chapter 10 Advanced Objective Writing 
Chapter 11 Preventive Writing: Drafting Contracts 
Chapter 12 Using Generative AI in Legal Research and Writing 

Index
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About the authors
Nadia E. Nedzel
Southern University Law Center

Nadia Nedzel is an assistant professor of law at Southern University Law Center. She teaches civil procedure, sales and leases, obligations, advanced legal writing, contracts, and international business transactions. Professor Nedzel came to SULC from Tulane University School of Law, where she served for five years as the director of Graduate Legal Studies and Exchange Programs and lecturer in law, teaching Introduction to American Law and Legal Research and Writing to International LL.M. candidates. A former judicial clerk for Judge Carl E. Stewart, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Professor Nedzel was staff attorney for the Fifth Circuit, held the Forrester Teaching Fellowship at Tulane Law School, and practiced admiralty and international trade with Preis, Kraft and Roy, a law firm with offices in New Orleans, Lafayette, and Houston.

Professor Nedzel's scholarly interests include international and comparative commercial law and jurisprudence, specifically the interrelationship among market economies, technology, and law. Her published articles include comparative studies of good faith and fair dealing, suretyship, and others. Her most recent publication is Legal Research and Writing for International Graduate Students. She has also authored two upcoming major articles: "Antidumping and Cotton Subsidies: A Market-based Defense of Unfair Trade Remedies," Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business (vol. 83, forthcoming 2008) and "Eminent Domain: A Legal and Economic Critique," Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender, and Class (with Walter Block) (forthcoming 2008).

Professor Nedzel earned a J.D. magna cum laude from Loyola University School of Law (New Orleans), and an LL.M. with honors from Northwestern University School of Law, focusing on international and comparative commercial law. Her Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University includes a triple major in English, French, and comparative literature (Spanish, French, Russian) with advanced hard science and math courses.

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Edition
Sixth Edition
Publication date
2025-09-15
Copyright Year
2026
Pages
420
Connected eBook + Paperback
9798892074667
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798892074674
Subject
Legal Writing
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