Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

7-8-2007

SSRN Discipline

Legal Scholarship Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Innovation Disciplines eJournals; Law School Research Papers - Public Law & Legal Theory; IRPN Subject Matter eJournals; Innovation Research & Policy Network

Abstract

Mrs Lincolns Lawyers Cat which appeared in the online companion to the Connecticut Law Review CONNtemplations begins with a discussion of the role that law reviews occupy in their parent institutions and it explores the correlations between citations to law schools main reviews and the most recent US News rankings 2008 It is part of a symposium on law reviews and thus continues a discussion with Ronen Perry and others which began in the Connecticut Law Review in 2006 The brief essay then turns to literature on the history of the book to suggest some of the reasons why we might draw inferences about a law school from the contents of its review Finally it turns to a discussion of the role that law reviews and the internet may play in propagating legal knowledge as financial pressures make it harder to publish books

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