How To Write A Legal Research Paper | Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj | Ep. 1 |

Letter of Law has started a new series called 'The Art of Writing A Legal Research Paper'. Through this series, I aim to interact with some of my favourite academic writers and learn their philosophy behind writing research papers. In the first episode of this new series, I am delighted to host the ever-brilliant Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj! Over the years, I have really enjoyed reading Shrutanjaya's articles and it was truly a wonderful experience to interview him on his writing and researching process. We spoke about a variety of matters such as choosing a topic, structuring a paper, writing styles, managing litigation with academia, getting a paper published, and so much more. Shrutanjaya has some terrific insights and I am sure the viewers will derive great value from it. In a world where fifteen second reels are the norm, we recorded an episode of over an hour. This helped us deep-dive into a lot of areas and produce a video that might comprehensively help anyone wishing to learn more about legal academic writing. All thanks to Shrutanjaya for being a patient listener and an absolutely wonderful guest. I hope you enjoy the episode! If you do, please leave a like and comment. Please consider subscribing to the channel and sharing it with your friends. Thank you! Time stamps: Legal writing series: 00:00 Shrutanjaya's intro: 00:42 Shrutanjaya introduces himself: 01:35 Initial experience with writing: 02:34 Why write?: 05:45 Litigation and writing: 11:54 Choosing a topic: 16:15 Perils of writing quickly: 19:40 Don't do it for LinkedIn: 22:23 Publish or perish: 23:30 Take your time with a paper: 24:00 Blogs on CV: 25:00 Blogs v. Journal Article for LLM Applications: 26:45 Identifying a reputed journal: 29:18 Capitalism!: 32:48 Doing literature review: 33:08 Successful researcher: 34:12 What if your arguments have already been made: 36:50 Emperical v. doctrinal research: 37:50 Do litigators have better insights than academics?: 43:20 Dismissal of SLP's: 45:42 Impression of writers in court: 47:45 Structuring a paper: 50:20 Bullet point structure: 50:55 Scope of a paper: 52:35 A good introduction: 53:55 Including a roadmap: 55:43 How to conlude: 58:20 Editorial process in indian journals: 01:01:55 Take editing seriously: 01:03:10 On writing: 01:03:50 Gautam Bhatia and Jeffrey Archer: 01:06:37 Style of writing: 01:08:09 Simple writing: 01:11:28 How to contribute something new to literature?: 01:14:06 Facing rejections: 01:17:22 Avoidable mistakes: 01:22:05 On books: 01:24:45 Conclusion: 01:28:09 Links to Shrutanjaya's research articles that were discussed in this episode: Precedent, stare decisis and the Larger Bench Rule: Judicial Indiscipline at the Indian Supreme Court: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/... (SSRN copy: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...) Preventive Detention, Habeas Corpus And Delay At The Apex Court: An Empirical Study: http://nujslawreview.org/wp-content/u... Follow Letter of Law: YouTube:    / letteroflaw   Instagram:   / letteroflaw   Follow Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj: LinkedIn:   / shrutanjaya   Twitter:   / shrutanjaya4   Follow Sarthak Bhardwaj: Twitter:   / sarthakbhardwj   Instagram:   / sarthakbhardwaj_20   Thank you!