February 4, 2000

'The Green Bag': Satire, Some Legal Theory, and the Saga of Judge Dave

By D.W. MILLER

Law-review writing suffers from just two weaknesses, wrote Fred Rodell, a Yale University law professor, in 1936. "One is its style. The other is its content." Since then, legal theories have come and gone, but journal-bashing has never gone out of style.

"Too many law-review articles are written to be published, not to be read," says Dennis J. Hutchinson, a law professor at the University of Chicago. "I don't think [journals] play a role in the broader

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