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Legal Scholarship Doesn’t Always Fall on Deaf Ears, Conclude Law Professors

July 30, 2010 by publisher · Leave a Comment 

Two law professors who researched the salience of legal research have concluded that, contrary to conventional wisdom, judges increasingly are citing law review articles in their opinions. Analyzing more than 296,000 reported federal circuit opinions filed between 1950 and 2008, David Schwartz and Lee Petherbridge found increased citation to law review articles during the past 20 years …

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Legal Scholarship Doesn’t Always Fall on Deaf Ears, Conclude Law Professors