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44 J. Legal Educ. 1 (1994)
A Lovable Law Review

handle is hein.journals/jled44 and id is 11 raw text is: A Lovable Law Review Alfred F. Conard For sixty years, I have been reading, writing, and even editing law reviews,' and resenting much of the experience. Like an army private, I accepted the reviews' code of spit and polish as the order of my universe. But in the course of some recent nonlaw reading I discovered thatjournals can be at the same time highly professional, well referenced, and lovable. Could a law review be lovable too? IfI would love to read it, would I love to write in it, and love to edit it? A Review I Would Love to Read I love brevity. I love the articles in the New England Journal of Medicine that report and document, in four or five pages, immensely important research. I love the baptismal issue of the Harvard Law Review, in whichJames Barr Ames covered Turchase for Value Without Notice in sixteen pages,2 while Joseph H. Beale,Jr., disposed of 'Tickets in eighteen.' I love to read the views of legal problems that are entertained by historians, economists, and physicians, and are stated in their own professional styles, without legalistic argumentation and documentation. I love to read articles that lead me into their messages with an interesting flow of ideas, rather than with an announcement of what Part I will elucidate, what Part II will contend, and what Part III will advocate. Although these previews help me decide which pages to read and which to skip, I can make these separations more quickly with a table of contents that includes page numbers. I love articles in which the author proclaims, 'I contend that... or '24y colleague Kamisar argues that... rather than ascribing opinions to some deity too holy to be named by whom It is argued... by whom It has been observed ... or of whom 'The hope is .... I love references. I love the list of sources cited that I meet in literature of the humanities and social sciences. If it is a good one, I xerox it, instead of Alfred F. Conard is Henry M. Butzel Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan Law School. 1. My first publication was an unsigned note, Suicide in Iowa Criminal Law, 19 Iowa L. Rev. 445 (1934); my latest is Elder Choice and Health Care Costs, 19 Am. J.L. & Med. 233 (1993). From 1968 to 19711 was editor in chief of the Amefican Journal of Comparative Law. 2. 1 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1887). 3. 1 Harv. L. Rev. 17 (1887). Journal of Legal Education, Volume 44, Number 1 (March 1994)

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