WHAT SHOULD THE FINAL DRAFT OF YOUR LL.M. PAPER LOOK LIKE?

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR FORMATTING

INCLUDE A STANDARDIZED COVER PAGE

For ease of reference, and to best enable the library to catalogue your work (see below), please include
a cover page with the following details*:

• Your name

• Your program (“LL.M. Program”)

• Title of your paper

• Month and Year of submission

• Name of your supervisor

• Name of the course (if your paper is written in conjunction with a course/seminar)

• Type of paper (LL.M. 50-Page Paper; 25-Page Paper)

*If your supervisor requires a different format, please follow those instructions instead.

FORMATTING THE PAPER ITSELF

The most common formatting is as follows:

• Left-hand margin of 1.5 in

• Top, bottom, and right-hand margins of 1 inch

• Double spacing (some people prefer 1.5 spacing, however)

• Type that is no smaller than 10 characters per square inch

• Footnotes should be single-spaced

INCLUDE AN ABSTRACT (recommendation)

We strongly encourage you to include an abstract – a short statement (from 3 lines to no more than half
a page) describing your research problem, central argument, and anything else you want your readers
to know in advance about your paper. It should come after the cover page and before the table of
contents. (The abstract is not included in the word or page count.) An abstract is helpful to you both as a
writer and as a researcher: as a paper writer, you will find the exercise of creating an abstract useful in
helping you think through and clarify the relevance of your paper; as a reader and/or researcher, you
will appreciate being able to make use of