That’s how one law professor describes Elena Kagan’s lame publication record that supposedly got her: 1) tenure at the University of Chicago Law School; and 2) the job of Dean of Harvard Law School. Her entire “scholarly” output consists of “three law review articles, a few short essays, and two short book reviews.” (Law Reviews are usually edited by 24-year-old law students, not accomplished legal scholars, as in the case of more scholarly journals such as the Journal of Legal Studies).
Update: Tim T. writes, speaking from experience as a former associate law review editor at a prestigious law school: “Law review articles are merely reference-checked by 24-year-old law review associates, not edited. And they are checked for political correctness, not really edited. . . . [T]he law review system is vanity publishing masquerading as scholarship.”
11:19 am on May 11, 2010
