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hlr-thesis-and-contribution

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Use when articulating the central legal claim and normative payoff of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it reads as an original contribution, not a doctrinal survey. Forges the thesis; it does not search for preemption (hlr-preemption-check) or build the argument's internal structure (hlr-argument-structure).

When to use

• articulating the central legal claim
• articulating the normative payoff
• forging the thesis
• distinguishing contribution from existing scholarship
• building the contribution paragraph
• identifying the dominant kind of legal contribution

When not to use

• searching for preemption
• building the argument's internal structure

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