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30 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 353 (1996-1997)
Is There a Growing Gap among Law, Law Practice, and Legal Scholarship: A Systematic Comparison of Law Review Articles One Generation apart

handle is hein.journals/sufflr30 and id is 371 raw text is: ERRATA Publisher's Note: Due to a printer's error at the time of publication of Volume 28, Number 4 of the Suffolk University Law Review, the following article, which originally appeared in that volume at page 1163, contained erroneous data. The corrected article appears below, and all citations to this article should be to this volume of the Suffolk University.Law Review. Is There a Growing Gap Among Law, Law Practice, and Legal Scholarship?: A Systematic Comparison of Law Review Articles One Generation Apart Michael J. Saks,* Howard Larsen,* and Carol J. Hodne I. INTRODUCTION The mathematician G.H. Hardy, a pioneer in number theory, once wrote with some pride that his work was entirely impractical and that he doubted it would ever be put to use.' Years later, his work would prove essential to the theory and development of modem cryptography, an eminently practical branch of study.2 Tension between theoretical and practical work, as well as questions concerning the distinction between the two, are inevitable. This controversy stretches across virtually every discipline, * Professor of Law, University of Iowa; Ph.D., 1975, Ohio State University; M.S.L, 1993, Yale Law School. ** J.D., 1995, University of Iowa College of Law; M.A. (Mathematics), California State Uni- versity at Los Angeles. *** Graduate student in Social Psychology, University of Iowa; M.A. (Urban and Regional Plan- ning); M.A. (Psychology), University of Iowa. Thanks go to Professor David Vernon, who first suggested doing a study of the kind reported in the second half of this article. Special thanks go to many University of Iowa colleagues, who gracious- ly contributed their time and intelligence to reading and describing the several hundred randomly se- lected articles assigned to them. Very special thanks go to Professor (now Dean) Richard Matasar for his exceptionally helpful criticisms and suggestions; nearly every stage of this project benefitted greatly from his insights. As is both customary and proper, however, the blame for any mistakes be- longs to the authors alone. 1. See generally GODFREY HAROLD HARDY, A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY (1969) (comment- ing on practicality of work on mathematics). 2. See generally, e.g., NEAL KOBLrrz, A COURSE IN NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY (1987) (discussing ancient and modern mathematics topics relevant to number theory and cryptogra- phy); NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY (J.H. Loxton ed., 1990) (discussing concepts and devel- opment of number theory); M.R. SCHROEDER, NUMBER THEORY IN SCIENCE AND COMMUNICATION (1986) (introducing nonmathematicians to applications of number theory).

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