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Excellence in scholarship is a basis for evaluation of tenure-track and tenured professors at most colleges and universities. Issues faced by many legal studies professors include: What qualifies as scholarship for the legal studies professor and what is the standard for excellence? This paper discussed these important concerns.

This article first reviews the importance of helping legal studies students improve their written communication through written assignments, despite the problem of plagiarism. The article argues that students need more education about plagiarism. It looks at definitions of plagiarism and considers typical problems legal studies students may have with plagiarism. The article then suggests faculty strategies for structuring assignments to avoid plagiarism in student assignments.