Law Reviews
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.08.11
* Chief Justice Roberts tries to explain why law reviews are so damn useless and boring. [Adjunct Law Prof Blog] * Look, I like Jimmer Ferdette Fredette. I think that he was discriminated against because he’s white and I’ll bet all the money in my pocket that he ends up having a better career than […] -
Art, Law Reviews, Law Schools
Hey, Fourth Tier: We Do Not Need Coloring Book Law Journals
Above the Law's newest editor, Staci, thought that she could make readers and commenters see the sunnier side of things at lower-ranked law schools. But sometimes, lower-ranked schools can make even Staci cringe. Especially when they want to publish "coloring book" law journals. - Sponsored
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Harvard Law Review, Law Reviews, Law Schools
Setting The Harvard Law Review Write-On Competition Ablaze
I don’t think it’s going to come as a galloping shock to anybody that law review was not my kind of thing. My conversational style, inattention to detail, and aversion to boredom really didn’t mesh with anything law review was selling. And after my 1L year, my grades were strong enough that I knew I’d […]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.09.11
* This identical-twin date-rape ad probably wasn’t vetted through legal. [Copyranter] * Adultery is still illegal in Colorado because…? Maybe state legislators are worried that a “favors adultery” attack ad could work? [WSJ Law Blog] * The legal industry added jobs in April. [Am Law Daily] * Law firms still find the time to be […] -
Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Law Reviews, Legal Research, Quote of the Day, Richard Posner
Quote of the Day: Judge Posner Benchslaps the Bluebook
[N]eedless to say, I have not read the nineteenth edition. I have dipped into it, much as one might dip one’s toes in a pail of freezing water. I am put in mind of Mr. Kurtz’s dying words in Heart of Darkness — ‘The horror! The horror!’ — and am tempted to end there. — […] -
Books, In-House Counsel, Job Searches, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Shameless Plugs
Inside Straight: Hire This Unemployed Chicago-Kent Editor-in-Chief!
Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Inside Straight, Above the Law’s new column for in-house counsel, written by Mark Herrmann. First, a story; then, an attempt to find a job for an unemployed former editor-in-chief of the Chicago-Kent Law Review. Here’s the story: After I wrote The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law, I […] -
Law Professors, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Rankings
Ranking the Law Reviews
All law reviews are not created equal. We all know this. But the prestige of your law review isn’t directly correlated to the prestige of your law school. One obvious case of that is the fact that the Harvard Law Review is widely considered to be the most prestigious law review, even though Yale has […] -
Feminism, Gender, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Women's Issues
The Ladies of Law Review: Mostly Good News
We’ve been doing a series of posts looking at whether women and minorities are adequately represented on the mastheads of the nation’s law reviews. The subject is definitely a contentious one, and our posts have generated a high number of comments. Perhaps we should shift our focus to underrepresented minorities (URMs) — sayonara, Asians — […] - Sponsored
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Harvard Law Review, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Minority Issues, Racism, Women's Issues
Minorities and Women and Law Reviews, Oh My!
Earlier this month, roughly around the time that newly minted law review editors were hearing the good news, we raised the issue of how many minorities and women are being selected for law review. It’s not a new debate; whether underrepresented minorities (URMs) and women are adequately represented on the nation’s leading law journals has […] -
Harvard Law Review, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Minority Issues, Racism
Congratulations, New Law Review Editors!(And a question about minorities on law review.)
It’s early August. Law students are getting ready to go back to school. And some students — lucky or unlucky, you be the judge — are going back earlier than others, to work on their schools’ law reviews. Over the summer, rising 2Ls around the country received the rather important news: whether they made it […] -
Elena Kagan, Law Professors, Law Reviews, SCOTUS, Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court
Taking A Closer Look at Elena Kagan's Description of Confirmation Hearings as a 'Vapid and Hollow Charade'
It’s Elena Kagan’s “wise Latina” comment. Just as Court watchers dug up a controversial, eight-year-old statement by Sonia Sotomayor last year, they have unearthed a law review article that Kagan authored in 1995 when she was a young law professor at the University of Chicago. In it, she criticized the Supreme Court confirmation hearings as […] -
Anal Sex / Butt Sex, Gay, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Nude Dancing, Pornography, Sex
Ever Heard of the Term 'Blue(book) Balls'?
We understand there are various websites — websites that we won’t mention by name or link to here — in which people seeking hook-ups or other sexual encounters can meet similarly minded individuals. Site visitors typically post pictures or images of certain body parts, in order to entice other visitors into arranging an encounter. Anyway, […] -
Bad Ideas, Dan Markel, Isn't It Ironic, Law Professors, Law Reviews
Law Professor of the Day: Victoria Dawson
A legal writing teacher who can’t spell? From the St. Petersburg Times (gavel bang: Paul Caron): In 2004, the woman who would become legal writing director at Florida A&M University’s law school posted a working paper online so legal scholars nationwide could see her work. The subject was heady: environmental dispute resolution. But Victoria Dawson’s […]
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