Write a short review essay on one of the following assigned readings (
supplementary reading
pdfs for classes 3 and 4 in
Brightspace):
William Twining, The Great Juristic Bazaar
or
John Borrows, Wampum at
Niagara: The Royal Proclamation, Canadian Legal
History, and Self Government
Review Essay Requirements:
The essay is worth 30% of your final grade, will be marked out of 30, and is due
by 4:00 pm on Monday
October 18. The essay should be 1,000
1,200 words (three to four pages, double spaced, regular font and margins).
Please indicate your name and student number, your TAs name, the name of your sected author and date on the front of your essay.
The essay submission l
This essay is a review of your selected reading and should focus on it, but you may also refer to the relevant parts of chapters 1 and 2 of the Looking at Law
course textbook and my lectures. Other outside
readings are not required. Your review should include the following elements which will be graded in the completed marking rubric returned to you on Brightspace once your TA has completed assessments and I have reviewed marking of all the essays:
Description
: Briefly describe the topic examined and situate it in scholarly debates about the law. Authors Theme
: What is the authors main point or central argument?
Authors Analysis: How does the author support his main point or argument by way of evidence,examples or illustrations, criticism of other per
spectives or previous scholarship?
Your Assessment : Are you convinced by the author or not? Why?
