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61 U. Chi. L. Rev. 527 (1994)
An Author's Manifesto

handle is hein.journals/uclr61 and id is 533 raw text is: EXCHANGE An Author's Manifesto James Lindgrent I. CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY Our scholarly journals are in the hands of incompetents. I'm not saying that law review editors are stupid; I wish things were that simple. On the contrary, law review editors are smart-frequently smarter than the authors whose work they edit. But they often select articles without knowing the subject, without knowing the scholarly literature, without understanding what the manuscript says, without consulting expert referees, and without doing blind reads. Then they try to rewrite every sentence. In short, student editors are grossly unsuited for the jobs they are faced with. Certainly, I was unsuited for my job on the staff of the University of Chicago Law Review. During my first year on the Review, I was appalled by what my fellow students (and I) were doing-selecting faculty articles and rewriting their prose. My response to my own feelings of inadequacy was to read a dozen style books. The following year, I was rewarded for my few months of study by being assigned the job of editing most t Norman & Edna Freehling Scholar and Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law. B.A. 1974, Yale University; J.D. 1977, The University of Chicago. This essay was written while I was a visiting scholar at the Northwestern University and University of Chicago Law Schools. I particularly appreciate suggestions from Leo Katz, Richard Posner, Wendy Gordon, Jennifer Arlen, Philip Hamburger, Andrew Kull, Dan Polsby, Gary Lawson, Anita Bernstein, Jacob Corre, Lloyd Cohen, Richard Matasar, Richard McAdams, and Steve Heyman. Last, I wish to thank the editors of the University of Chicago Law Review for their restrained and extremely intelligent edit of this essay.

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