We’ve been talking about law reviews in our legal research class recently, so I was interested to see Adam Liptak’s New York Times column criticizing law reviews show up this week.  It didn’t take long for the criticism to be criticized and for law reviews to be defended.

The Lackluster Reviews that Lawyers Love to Hate – NY Times

In Defense of Law Reviews – The Volokh Conspiracy

The Relevance and Readership of Student-Edited Law Reviews: Another Response to Liptak – The Volokh Conspiracy

In Defense of Law Reviews – Concurring Opinions

Glass Houses: Liptak on Legal Scholarship -Balkinization