I hereby announce that the ideal length of a law review article is 40 pages. Enough to get in, deal with a problem in detail, and get out.
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They're usually pretty bad. Too often a political document and not much in the way of good legal arguments.
group law prof amicus briefs the weakest. Sometimes single profs or small groups bring specialized knowledge
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Agreed. "We're all liberals and want the lib result" = usually really bad, solo brief by
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as a corollary, I won't sign an amicus brief I haven't had a substantial role in writing
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i've done it only once, when I knew all the cases and agreed wholly with the analysis. I still regret it, though.
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you two are putting me in a good mood on this issue.
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I sense Orin and I are atypical on this
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amicus brfs varied widely as clerk - law prof 1s excellent if tight, bad if abt law, universe & everything
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