Reflections about Law Reviews and American Legal Scholarship

Authors

Richard S. Harnsberger, University of Nebraska College of Law

Abstract

I. Introduction

II. A Curious Way of Doing Things

III. Why Do Students Join Law Reviews?

IV. Is Criticism of Law Reviews Justified or Is It “Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing?”

V. From Practical to Theoretical Legal Scholarship

VI. Yet Another Accusation: Law Reviews Are the Cause of the Supreme Court’s Poor Literary Style

VII. A Final Complaint: A Great Deal of Law Review Language Is Incomprehensible

VIII. Expert Testimony in Opposition to Abolishing Law Reviews

IX. A Possible But Unlikely Change of Circumstances

X. Conclusion

Recommended Citation

Richard S. Harnsberger, Reflections about Law Reviews and American Legal Scholarship, 76 Neb. L. Rev. (1997)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol76/iss4/3