There can be no doubt about the need for thorough, well-documented articles about the law, or about the suitability of recognized academic law journals as the place for such articles. Our legal system would clearly suffer if the pool of scholarly articles researching and often criticizing the law were to dry up. At the same time, there is a legitimate criticism that can be levied at the current law review focus on exhaustively detailed articles, namely, that many of them are too long and complex to be of much real value in advancing legal discourse. This Essay-which will be short, of coursewill discuss some of the limitations of the articles that currently dominate the law reviews. It will also recommend an obvious remedy: that the reviews devote at least a few of their pages to a different sort of article, one that is shorter and simpler to read, and, hence, one that can serve to promote broadly based discourse in the law.
