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Last writes? Reassessing the law review in the age of cyberspace

Hibbitts, BJ (1996) Last writes? Reassessing the law review in the age of cyberspace. New York University Law Review, 71 (3). 615 - 688. ISSN 0028-7881

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Abstract

Professor Hibbitts reassesses the history and future of the law review in light of changing technological and academicconditions. He analyzes why law reviews developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and shows how three different waves of criticism have reflected shifting professorial, professional, and pedagogical concerns about the genre. Recent editorial reforms and the inauguration of on-line services and electronic law journals appear to solve some of the law review's traditional problems, but Professor Hibbitts suggests that these procedural and technological modifications leave the basic criticisms of the law review system unmet. In this context, Professor Hibbitts proposes that legal writers self-publish on the World Wide Web, as he did in a previous version of this Article. This strategy, Professor Hibbitts argues, would give legal writers more control over the substance and form of their scholarship, would create moreopportunities for spontaneity and creativity, and would promote more direct dialogue among legal thinkers. It would also sound the death knell for law reviews in their present form.

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Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Hibbitts, BJhibbitts@pitt.eduHIBBITTS0000-0001-9455-4570
Date: 1 June 1996
Date Type: Publication
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Journal or Publication Title: New York University Law Review
Volume: 71
Number: 3
Page Range: 615 - 688
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: School of Law > Law
School of Law > Law > Faculty Publications
Refereed: No
ISSN: 0028-7881
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Date Deposited: 18 Nov 2014 21:00
Last Modified: 02 Feb 2019 16:57
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22609

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