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5 Scribes J. Leg. Writing 101 (1994-1995)
Love Those Law Reviews

handle is hein.journals/scrib5 and id is 107 raw text is: Love Those Law Reviews

John F. Bramfeld
This letter, which is genuine, has made the
rounds in Illinois but deserves a wider audience.
The editors have added the reference notes.
Faculty Advisor
University of Illinois Law Review
Editor-in-Chief
University of Illinois Law Review
Dear Messrs. Dripps and Coghlan:
I have just finished perusing approximately my 42nd University
of Illinois Law Review (assuming four a year since 1974). As these
volumes have become less and less useful, in a peculiar way they
have become more interesting.
The first paragraph in the first article alerted me that a bold
new day in legal writing had arrived in the cornbelt. I do not think
for a moment you could have forgotten, but since my wife, Gerri,
reads my correspondence, I repeat that first paragraph:
Third parties confound the commercial law, in terms of both
its contract and tort elements. [Footnote omitted.] The neat
consensual (contract)/nonconsensual (tort) continuum devolves into
a tension delimited by policies and, often, conjured by power.
[Footnote omitted.] In a unique way, the resolution of third-party
problems implicates contextual equities, not merely the immanent

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