Bloggers Hit Hard on Harvard Law Review Note
A recent note in the Harvard Law Review has sparked a firestorm of criticism in the legal blogging world.
The law student-authored article “basically says that anyone who doesn’t go in to public interest work is immoral and is killing babies in third world countries (most of this analysis is in section 4 of the article),” an anonymous tipster told Above the Law—and this summary, writes blogger David Lat, is “shockingly accurate.” (The blog provides a link to the article (PDF), Never Again Should a People Starve in a World of Plenty.)
“If there is any traditional legal analysis in this Note, it’s not obvious (though I admit that I didn’t read the entire thing),” writes David Bernstein in the Volokh Conspiracy.
“Just what is in the water at Harvard Law School? The latest issue of the Harvard Law Review contains a Note that, after a rambling and brutally melodramatic introduction, purports to explore morality and justice,” while attacking lawyers who work in corporate settings, the National Post piles on. “Ah, to be young and ‘know it all.’ “
A subsequent National Post article offers further criticism of an apparent Above the Law response posted by the student author and points out that he inaccurately understood the subject of a nearby statue that sparked his musings.
