Inequality Paper Step 3: Develop Your Legal Reform!
For Inequality Paper Step 3, you will find 1 (one) Law Review Article (you will follow the instructions on the Find Law Reviews link to summarize, analyze and cite them.) (Graduate Students should find at least 2 Law Review Articles.) Law Reviews (or Law Journals) are journals where law scholars write their analyses of the law and arguments for how to change the law. Law Review Articles often are called normative articles because they argue how the law should change or how the law ought to be. For instance, a Law Review Article might explain the current state of campaign finance law and then make suggestions for how to reform that area of law. (In contrast, scientific articles like sociology articles are called empirical articles because they argue about how the world is or what processes are true in the world. For example, an empirical article asks what the causes and effects of various phenomena in the world are, like the causes and effects of inequality.)
You will use your chosen Law Review Article to build your reform argument in your Inequality Paper. Follow the instructions for using the Nexis Uni database on the Find Law Reviews page to find your Law Review Article. (NOTE: Keep in mind, scholarly law books also are acceptable sources, and those books sometimes will appear in your searches when you search for Law Review Articles. Academic scholarly law books typically are published at University book presses such as Oxford University Press, University of California Press, etc. NOTE: A scholarly law book is not just a book that gives you the laws like a statute book; instead, a scholarly law book explains the current state of the law and gives suggested reforms; it is like a Law Review Article, but longer).
Law Review Article Selection and Citation
Find the following information about your Law Review Article:
a) Article title: What is the title and subtitle of your Law Review Article?
b) Author(s): What are the full names of the article’s authors? Include author affiliations and credentials. Note: author affiliations are frequently listed with the authors’ names, however, sometimes you need to look in a footnote on the title page or elsewhere in the document. In rare occasions, author affiliations are not listed.
c) Journal Name: What is the name of the Law Review in which the source was published?
Create an In-text citation and a References list citation for your Law Review Article:
2 .a) In-Text Citation: Write an in-text citation for your Law Review Article. Use the in-text citation template on the Cite Your Sources page to put together your citation.
2. b) Reference List Citation: Write a Reference list citation for your Law Review Article. Use the journal article template on the Cite Your Sources page to put together your citation.
3. Summarize your article (minimum 250 words, maximum 500 words). Include in your summary the Article’s main point, the topics covered, and the main arguments of the author(s). Use the information under Analyze Legal Articles to help you analyze and find key information in your articles for your summary.
4. Reflection: How can you use the article’s arguments and reasoning to help build your own arguments for a legal reform that will fix your macro-level inequality?
Citations provide the information necessary for readers to identify and retrieve each source you use. When you use someone else’s words or ideas in your papers, you should create In-text citations (within the paper) and References list citations (at the end of the paper). Each In-text citation should lead to a References list citation, and each References list citation should come from an In-text citation.
Follow Dr. Patel’s citation templates when you’re putting together your citations:
Journal Article In-Text Citation (One Author): (Author last name, Year, Page numbers)
Journal Article In-Text Citation (Up to Three Authors): (Author last name, Author last name, & Author last name, Year, Page numbers)
Journal Article In-Text Citation (More Than Three Authors):(Author last name, Author last name, Author last name, et al., Year, Page numbers)
Journal Article Bibliography Citation:
Author last name, A. A., Author last name, B. B., & Author last name, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Journal Name, Volume number(issue number), page numbers.
Book Chapter In-Text Citation: (Author last name, Author last name, & Author last name, Year, Page numbers)
Book Chapter Bibliography Citation:
Author last name, A. A., & Author last name, B. B. (Year). Title of chapter. In A. A. Editor & B. B. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (pages of chapter). Location: Publisher.
