LEXICAL LUMINARY

About the Book

This book is a bold, incisive companion for the reader who loves language and wants to wield it with precision, force, and grace. Drawing from the author’s lifetime of lexical inquiry and legal practice, this book blends erudition with clarity, and instruction with delight.

The book invites you to sharpen your vocabulary, appreciate the fine distinctions between deceptively similar words, and discover the compelling and evocative origins of selected terms. Along the way, you’ll explore the meanings that matter—not the obscure or ornamental, but the vital and often misunderstood.

Written for lawyers, law students, writers, judges, teachers, editors, and anyone whose work or passion depends on the exact use of language, Lexical Luminary champions clarity over confusion and precision over pretension. It refuses encyclopedic overload and instead curates insight: what you most need to know, and why it matters.

About the Author

Chinua Asuzu is unquestionably Africa’s leading legal-writing scholar. His other works are Brief-Writing Master Plan; Fair Hearing in Nigeria; Judicial Writing: A Benchmark for the Bench; and Uncommon Law of Learned Writing.

Chinua’s works command professional respect in every English-speaking jurisdiction.

Chinua is the dean of The Write House; the senior partner of Assizes Lawfirm; a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; and a member of the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel.

A jurisprudent and polymath, Chinua teaches legal writing at law firms and law schools and at private and public forums. He brings to the discipline of legal writing two decades of intensive private study and extensive public teaching.

Chinua’s expertise spans the gamut of legal writing: academic legal writing, brief-writing, business writing, contract drafting, judicial writing, legislative drafting, and litigation drafting.

An upwrite and writeous autodidact, Chinua is all write.