Reflections about Law Reviews and American Legal Scholarship

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