U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts miffed some legal educators in 2011 when he said at a judicial conference that law review articles are largely about arcane topics that are of no use to practitioners and judges.

It turns out that he’s not the only one who sees some real problems with the law review system, where law student editors are tasked with selecting and editing lengthy and extensively footnoted research papers written primarily by law professors.

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