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47 Emory L. J. 659 (1998)
Essay

handle is hein.journals/emlj47 and id is 669 raw text is: ESSAY LAW REVIEWS: A FORAY THROUGH A STRANGE WORLD Reinhard Zimmermann * TABLE OF CONTENTS I. THE MOST REMARKABLE INSTTTION--INTRODUCTION .................. 660 II. LAw RmEw's EMPor-AN OVERVmW OF THE JOURNAL LANDSCAPE ........................................................................................... 661 1. General Law Reviews ................................................................... 661 2. Specialized Law Reviews .............................................................. 664 3. Law Reviews Oriented Towards International Law ..................... 668 IH. KEEPING UP WITH HARVARD-THE ORIGIN OF LAW REVIEWS ........ 670 IV. THE WORK OF BOYS--THE EDITING AND FORMATTNG OF LAW REVIEWS ............................................................................................... 673 1. Selection of Contributions ............................................................ 673 This unambitious little piece was written in the Fall Term of 1993, while I was serving as the Max Rheinstein Visiting Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Chicago School of Law. It was intended to inform European lawyers about what I regard as a typical aspect of American legal culture. The article was published as part of a book which is entitled Amerlkanlsche Rechtskultur und europalsches Privatrecht- Impressionen aus der Neuen Welt (edited by Reinhard Zimmennamian), published by I.C.B. Mohr (Siebeck) in Tubingen, early in 1995. That book also contains essays by Joachim Zekoll, Shael Herman, and Mathias Rei- mann on Louisiana as a mixed legal system, on the history of the idea of codification in the United States, and on whetherAmerican private law can serve as a model for the new European ius commune. After that book had appeared, English and American friends and colleagues repeatedly asked me to publish an English version of my law review article in an American law review. I finally acceded to those requests, not without same trepidation in view of the fact that the article had been written for a European audience and that, essentially, it constitutes an outsider's view of the American law review enterprise. Professor Harold 3. Berman of the Emory University School of Law very kindly arranged for Roland C. Munique, an Emory Law School student, to produce the pre- sent translation. I am very grateful to Mr. Muniae for his work and to Professor Berman (Atlanta) and Paul Farlam (Regensburg) for their contributions to the final (American) version of this article. Even though I cannot, sadly, thank thirty-six natural persons and seven workshops for their input, see Infra note 93 and accompanying text, this introductory footnote should be considered a very modest and imperfect attempt to comply with at least one of the conventions of a proper American law review article. Editor's Note: This Article has been translated fiom German into English. As it was originally written for a European publication, it does not conform to Blue Book citation conventions.

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