Judge Richard Posner has an article entitled "Against Law Reviews," in Legal Affairs: The magazine at the intersection of law and life.

The subtitle is: "Welcome to a world where inexperienced editors make articles about the wrong topics worse."

It is a a good and sober look at a serious problem - that "The result of the system of scholarly publication in law is that too many articles are too long, too dull, and too heavily annotated, and that many interdisciplinary articles are published that have no merit at all." He is particularly critical of articles in the "law and . . . ." fields.

Since much of the national discussion of intellectual property is filtered through this system of law review publication, it is a serious problem for IP in particular.

The link is from Houston's Clear Thinkers, via Marginal Revolution.

For some amen comments from a law prof, see here.

posted by James DeLong @ 1:17 PM | General

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