This is a graduate-level writing course for international students from diverse academic cultures. The course ensures that international students and visiting scholars demonstrate competency in research and writing by composing a paper in English that evidences qualities of U.S. legal scholarship, writing ability, and craftsmanship. Students learn to express complex ideas using oral and written modes. Students acquire knowledge of linguistic accuracy and (structural and lexical) complexity to develop academic language proficiency. Ongoing teacher-student interaction takes place in the selection of topic and research plan, formation of outline, review of the rough drafts, and critique of the final draft before submission to a law professor for law school credit. This one-credit course targets international Master of Laws (LL.M.) students working in fields involving legal writing, policymaking, or scholarly legal publications.