jle-writing-style
Use when revising the prose, abstract, and introduction of a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript so the legal institution and the design land early, in University of Chicago Press house style with Chicago author-date citations. Polishes exposition; it does not change the result (jle-identification / jle-robustness) or the exhibits.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-writing-style --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Writing Style (jle-writing-style) ## When to trigger - Identification and robustness are settled and the paper needs its final exposition pass - The introduction buries the legal question and the effect under institutional or doctrinal setup - The abstract does not state the headline effect of the rule with its uncertainty - The prose reads either like a generic economics paper that forgot the law, or like a law-review article that forgot the economics ## The JLE introduction arc JLE prose is **plain, direct, and institution-aware**. The introduction should follow the law-and-economics arc: **the legal/regulatory question → why the institution makes the answer matter → why naive estimates fail → the legal source of variation that solves it → the headline effect of the rule with a standard error → the mechanism (deterrence/price/quality) → the legal or policy lesson → brief roadmap.** A reader who is an economist but not a lawyer should grasp the rule and the answer in the first paragraph; the identification should be legible by the end of the second. Get the law right without writing like a law review: explain the rule's mechanics in economists' terms. | Section | What it must do
- When to trigger
- The JLE introduction arc
- Writing craft
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Writing for JLE's dual audience
- Referee pushback mapped to the writing fix
- The institutions section: where the law lives
- Output format
What does the jle-writing-style skill do?
Use when revising the prose, abstract, and introduction of a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript so the legal institution and the design land early, in University of Chicago Press house style with Chicago author-date citations. Polishes exposition; it does not change the result (jle-identification / jle-robustness) or the exhibits.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-writing-style --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.