Business Law Assignment 2022

Running head: BUSINESS LAW ASSIGNMENT
REACTION PAPER
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Authors note

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Reaction Paper to Research That Shakes Things Up
Robert W. Emerson
American Business Law Journal
(https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2671251)
Law review or journal papers are considered to be another excellent secondary source of
legal study, which are also useful for the scope in which they discuss and criticize legal subjects,
as well as their detailed references to other sources like primary sources. Several individuals
study law review articles only for pleasure. Therefore, professors and law students are
considered to be the primary customers and readers of law journals. These people study law
review articles for certain causes, which include knowing a subject, observing the presentation
style of an author’s scholarship, collecting concepts for further investigation and supplementing
a person’s education1. It is very obvious that neither it is a complete list nor these causes are
accepted by all. Law reviews are academic journals, which are typically edited in collaboration
with faculty members with law students. They include both long papers and smaller essays by
professors and lawyers, as well as observations, notices or trends in the law which are usually
written by a student. Articles on the study of law frequently emphasize new or evolving fields of
law and can provide a more detailed explanation than a legal encyclopedia. Most of the law
reviews are devoted to a single subject, such as gender and law or environmental law, and may
include the proceedings of an extensive variety of groups and conventions on relevant legal
matters in their content2.
Now after reading the article some questions are coming to my mind, such as:
i) What does a law review article contain?
1 Dodge, William S. "International Comity in American Law." (2015) Colum. L. Rev. 115: 2071.
2 Baude, William, and Stephen E. Sachs. "The law of interpretation." (2016) Harv. L. Rev. 130: 1079.

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ii) Is this necessary for a law student to read law articles?
iii) Is the law articles creative?
iv) Whether there exist some other reasons for reading a law review article apart from
getting a job or being a law professor.
Response-1
However, it is true that law reviews mainly contain the articles written by law professors,
judges and lawyers but often it includes shorter pieces of writing written by law students which
are known as ‘notes’ or ‘comments’. Numerous law schools have a ‘primary’ review of the law
that includes papers from a broad range of legal topics and also has ‘Law Review’ in the title.
Including the Law Review, most colleges do have numerous other law journals, each focused on
one different field of the law. Generally modest but extremely topical matters have been
addressed by the law review articles. Most of the articles deal with two issues, such as ‘why does
the matter’ and ‘what measure needs to be taken’. Sometimes it has been observed that the reader
has extreme knowledge over the stated topic of the law review article despite that the writer must
elaborate particular legal issues along with their probable solutions. This step taken by the author
helps the readers to detect techniques and evolve novel concepts. Many researchers are of the
view that through the articles on law review teachers get an opportunity to educate their students
which helps to develop the teaching abilities of the teachers. The recent articles written by
outstanding scholars, namely Stephanie Greene, Neylon O’Brien, Robert Brown Junior,
Raymond, and Amanda failed to forge new paths. Their methods – the regular study of cases, the
reading of legislation and regulatory history and the examination of scholarly literature – shape
the tried and tested mechanisms that usually undermine best law studies3.
3 Steel, Alex, et al. "Critical legal reading: The elements, strategies and dispositions needed to master this essential
skill." (2016) Legal Educ. Rev. 26: 187.