Bruce was right - it has all been said before! Here's a short list of law review articles discussing the issue. Links are to Westlaw (subscription required). Fred Rodell, Goodbye to Law Reviews, 23 Va. L. Rev. 38, 45 (1936) ("Maybe one of these days the law reviews, or some of them, will have the nerve to shoot for higher...

Although it has been seemingly beaten to death in other quarters, I too have my own perspective on the nature of student-editing and how it affects legal scholarship. There seems to me a big hole in how these commentators [see, I am in article mode] are approaching the student-review problem, and it mirrors the hole I see in many law...

It seems a tad silly that this is directed towards first-year students. Those to be selected are likely to have shown promise in another graduate field. It is axiomatic to say that nearly all law students at top schools showed promise in their undergraduate work. To differentiate students who merely profess to be interested in legal academia from those who...