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Chief Justice Roberts Mocks, Reads Law Review Journals

March 18, 2015

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A writer who earlier quoted comments from Chief Justice Roberts indicating that law review articles are rarely of any practical value now writes that the Justice regularly cites scholarly work in his opinions, and provides a list of articles cited. Roberts’ earlier comment that in law reviews “ the first article is likely to be, you know, the influence of Immanuel Kant on evidentiary approaches in 18th Century Bulgaria, or something,” is quoted, along with another less than laudatory remark, but on the whole editors of such reviews can take heart at how useful the Chief Justice seems to think they are.

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