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ylj-thesis-and-contribution

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Use when sharpening the central legal-scholarly claim and contribution for a The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) piece. It forces a falsifiable, generalist thesis and names the contribution type; it does not search prior literature (use ylj-preemption-check) or build the argument (use ylj-argument-structure).

When to use

• sharpening the central legal-scholarly claim
• naming the contribution type
• applying the one-sentence thesis test
• building the YLJ contribution contract
• testing the thesis for student-editor screen
• creating a search-ready hypothesis for preemption
• stress-testing the contribution

When not to use

• searching prior literature
• building the argument
• performing the literature search
• claiming novelty

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