What should be included in my outline?
Your outline should contain your thesis statement, and a description
of the main parts of your argument, as well as what sources and cases you
will draw on. For example, below is an outline of a paper on the obligation
to obey the law (I haven't filled in all the blanks, but the outline you
turn in should be fairly detailed, with some specific page references).
Note how each main part of the outline should logically flow from the previous
part, so as to give an overall coherence to your paper.
Also include a working bibliography: include alphabetical list of
sources so far, including of course the ones referred to in your outline,
but also other sources you plan on using; you will no doubt find more sources
as you continue, but this will be a starting point and help me to give
you further suggestions.
For your paper you can either
1) use a bibliography, in which you cite books as follows:
Rawls, John. Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1972).
And articles as follows:
Smith, Bob. "Privacy in Bunuel's Phantom of Liberty," Film Criticism
Review 17:10-35 (1988).
For law reviews use the format that is used in the court cases and
law review articles we have read.
Include a list of cases with complete cites. If you do this, then in
the text, when you refer to a work you can either use parentheses,
e.g. (Rawls, pp. 13-17)--the reference to Rawls will be given in your bibliography,
and if you use more than one work by the same author, then you need to
cite which one, using the date, e.g. (Rawls 1972, pp. 13-17); or you can
use footnotes.
or
2) Use footnotes and no bibliography (though you need to turn in your
working bibliography with your outline). Follow the model of the law review
articles/court cases we have read, and be consistent in your style. When
citing a case for the first time, you must give the complete citation,
e.g. Smith v. Jones, 135 U.S. 332 (1897), at 345. Future citations can
be briefer, e.g. 135 U.S. at 372.