D.C. Journalists Honored For Legal Writing

The Green Bag, a quarterly journal dedicated to good writing about the law housed at George Mason University School of Law, recently announced its 2006 honorees for Exemplary Legal Writing. The awards are selected by the journalâ€™s board of advisers, which includes members of the state and federal judiciary, the news media, private law firms and academia. The honored works will be republished in the forthcoming Green Bag Almanac & Reader 2007. Notable honorees include Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh. Some D.C. media types even find themselves on the list. 24 total works were recognized in six categories: judicial opinions, books, short articles, long articles, briefs and motions, and miscellany. The complete list of nominees when you click below. Judicial Opinions: Jay S. Bybee, Amalgamated Transit Union v. Laidlaw Transit Servs., 448 F.3d 1092 (9th Cir. 2006) Alex Kozinski, Jespersen v. Harrahâ€™s, 444 F.3d 1104 (9th Cir. 2006) Richard Posner, Cecaj v. Gonzales, 440 F.3d 897 (7th Cir. 2006) John G. Roberts, Jr., Rumsfeld v. FAIR, 126 S. Ct. 1297 (2006) Ronald A. White, Green v. Bd. Of Commâ€™rs, 450 F. Supp.2d 1273 (E.D. Okla. 2006) William G. Young, U.S. v. Kandirakis, 441 F.Supp.2d 282 (D. Mass. 2006) Books: Bruce Ackerman, The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshal and the Rise of Presidential Democracy (Belknap 2005) Jack Goldsmith & Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World (Oxford 2006) Geoffrey Robertson, The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold (Pantheon 2006; Chatto & Windus 2005) Benjamin Wittes, Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times (Rowman & Littlefield 2006) Short Articles: Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Smackdown!, N.Y. Times, March 12, 2006 Duncan MacDonald, The Story of a Famous Promissory Note, 10 Scribes J.L. Writing 79 (2006) Jeffrey Rosen, Judicial Exposure, N.Y. Times, Jan. 29, 2006 Jonathan M. Starble, Gimme an â€˜Sâ€™: The High Courtâ€™s Grammatical Divide, Legal Times, Oct. 9, 2006 Stuart Taylor, Jr., Somethingâ€™s Rotten at Duke, Natâ€™l. J., May 29, 2006 Diane P. Wood, Original Intent versus Evolution: The Legal-Writing Edition, The Scrivener, Summer 2005 Long Articles: Harold Hongju Koh, Can the President Be Torturer in Chief?, 81 Indiana L.J. 1145 (2006) Pierre N. Leval, Judging Under the Constitution: Dicta About Dicta, 81 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1249 (2006) J. Harvie Wilkinson III, The Rehnquist Court at Twilight: The Lures and Perils of Split-the-Difference Jurisprudence, 58 Stan. L. Rev. 1969 (2006) Briefs and Motions: Aaron M. Panner et al., Amicus Brief in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld Seth P. Waxman et. al., Amicus Brief in Smith v. Texas Miscellany: Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Restyled Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Judith S. Kaye, The Best Oral Argument I (N)ever Made, 7 J. App. Prac. & Process 191 (2005) Mark L. Movsesian, Samuel Williston: Brief Life of a Resilient Legal Scholar, Harv. Mag. (Jan-Feb. 2006)

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