¹ See, e.g., Rhode, Deborah L., Social Research and Social Change: Meeting the Challenge of Gender Inequality and Sexual Abuse, 30 Harvard J. L. & Gender 11 (2007), http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlg/vol301/rhode.pdfGoogle Scholar (using three examples—sexual harassment, acquaintance rape, and domestic violence—to illustrate how social science research has transformed the understanding of social issues).

² See, e.g., Bernard E. Harcourt, Against Prediction: Sentencing, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age Chicago Public, Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 94 (May 2005) (criticizing the new actuarial paradigm).

³ Kritzman-Amir, Tally, “Otherness” as the Underlying Principle in Israel's Asylum Regime, 42 Isr. L. Rev. 603 (2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Fiona de Londras, Prosecuting Sexual Violence in the Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, University College Dublin Law Research Paper No. 06/2009 (2009).

⁴ See Medina, Barak, Political Disobedience in the IDF: The Scope of the Legal Right of Soldiers to be Excused from Taking Part in Military Activities in the Occupied Territories, 36 Isr. L. Rev. 73 (2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; see also the rest of the articles in this issue examining selective conscientious objection by soldiers in the Israeli context. This was one of the first Israel Law Review issues that I edited and helped in my learning how to edit an academic journal as well as the importance of allowing an open, unbiased academic discussion.

⁵ See, e.g., David Weisburd, Stephen D. Mastrofski, Rosann Greenspan, & James J. Willis the Growth of Compstat in American Policing (2004) (discussing and examining the use of Compstat, a management tool for crime mapping and identifying problems, by American police departments), http://www.policefoundation.org/pdf/growthofcompstat.pdf. Publication of reports, journals, and articles online has proven to be a wonderful, usually free legal research tool for researchers, policymakers, field professionals, and the public at large.

⁶ Farrior, Stephanie, Molding the Matrix: The Theoretical and Historical Foundations of International Law and Practice Concerning Hate Speech, 14 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 1 (1996).Google Scholar

⁷ See, e.g., Pruitt, Lisa R., Gender, Geography, and Rural Justice, 23 Berkeley J. Gender, L. & Justice 338 (2008)Google Scholar (using space, place, and scale to inform policymakers about rural women's reality).

⁸ See, e.g., Michal Alberstein, Alternative Justice: Mediation, Restoration and Therapy Through Legal Mechanisms (forthcoming, 2011) [in Hebrew].

⁹ Ben-Naftali, Orna & Shany, Yuval, Living in Denial: The Co-application of Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law to the Occupied Territories, 37 Isr. L. Rev. 17 (2004).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

¹⁰ Hacker, Daphna, Children's Exclusion from Divorce Proceedings, 22 Hamishpat 63 (2006)Google Scholar [in Hebrew].

¹¹ See Yale Law School Expands Legal Writing Instruction, http://www.law.yale.edu/news/12388.htm.

¹² Writing centers need not be located in law faculties and can be used by all university departments, see, e.g., the Writing Center at University of Madison Wisconsin http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/process.html, the Purdue University Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/, and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law http://www.tjsl.edu/academics/academic-support/writing-lab.

¹³ See Mishpatim (Hebrew University Law School student law review) and Iyuenei Mishpat (Tel Aviv University Law School student law review) just to name two of the several.

¹⁴ Schiess, Wayne, Legal Writing Is Not What It Should Be, 37 Southern U. L. Rev. 1, 2 (2009)Google Scholar (terming “high school” writing as self-expression writing and legal writing as expository writing and recommending inter alia the better preparation and training of legal writing by law students).

¹⁵ Many write on how to improve legal writing: See, e.g., Vololkh, Eugene, Academic Legal Writing (4th ed. 2009)Google Scholar and Oates, Laurel Currie & Enquist, Anne M., The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research, and Writing (5th ed. 2010).Google Scholar

¹⁶ The University of Idaho Law School posts a list of writing competitions, http://www.law.uidaho.edu/legalwritingcontests.

¹⁷ The law schools of colleges and universities in Israel have student law reviews that are written in Hebrew and are usually listed on the school's website.

¹⁸ While a law blog is not written with the same care, research, or editing of that of a law article, it should not be pushed aside as a frivolous tool to improve legal writing. It is important to recognize that legal writing is dynamic and an avenue that in the past was unrecognized—i.e., blog—might play a future role. The American Bar Association (ABA) even has a law blog directory, http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs.

¹⁹ This difficulty has been recognized by Israeli law schools vis-à-vis Arab Israeli and recent immigrant law students who receive extra time on examinations and other writing assistance.

²⁰ Lerner, Pablo, Foundations in Germany and Israel: An Analysis of the Legal Framework, 36 Isr. L. Rev. 41 (2002).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

²¹ Ronen, Yaël, Illegal Occupation and its Consequences, 41 Isr. L. Rev. 201 (2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Sigal Shahav, The Social and Constitutional Implications of Adjudicating Terrorists Suspects: A Comparison of General Criminal Law Procedure and Specific Terrorist Law (PhD dissertation, Tel Aviv University, forthcoming 2011) (discussing the application of the Israeli criminal justice system in terror adjudication).

²² Shany, Yuval, No Longer a Weak Department of Power? Reflections on the Emergence of a New International Judiciary, 20 Eur. J. Int'l L. 73, 75 (2009).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

²³ Washington and Lee University School of Law Index lists (and ranks) English-language law journals, http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx; or scroll down the Washburn Law School list of law reviews to get a taste of English-language law journals, http://www.washlaw.edu/lawjournal/.

²⁴ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalbrowse&journal_id=881738.

²⁵ Electronic databases, such as SSRN and bepress, which publishes two Israeli law school publications: Theoretical Inquires in Law and Law & Ethics of Human Rights, allow jurists and academics online access to articles and journals while saving the publishers printing and shipping costs.