Comments on: Hello to Law Reviews - Good-bye to Student Editors? http://www.lawsocietyblog.com/archives/181 Notes from the intersection of law, society, technology, economics, and culture Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:12:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Manfred Gabriel http://www.lawsocietyblog.com/archives/181#comment-665 Manfred Gabriel Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:27:44 +0000 http://www.lawsocietyblog.com/archives/181#comment-665 Thanks for the comment, fair points. Dan writes: "I don't believe that having background in an article will hurt readability and it will not necessarily ruin the scholarly value of an article." The problem I see is that long background sections (with the extensive and redundant footnotes) raise the cost of writing (and reading!) a law-review article. The premium is on compilation, when it should be on thought. Thanks for the comment, fair points.

Dan writes:
“I don’t believe that having background in an article will hurt readability and it will not necessarily ruin the scholarly value of an article.”

The problem I see is that long background sections (with the extensive and redundant footnotes) raise the cost of writing (and reading!) a law-review article. The premium is on compilation, when it should be on thought.

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