Toward the end of Alan Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s famous musical play, My Fair Lady, Eliza Doolittle explodes in frustration when her admirer, Freddy Eynsford-Hill, wants to read her some love poems he has written. “Words, words, words, I’m so sick of words,” she laments. “I get words all day through, first from him, now […]

The Texas Law Review is a special place. It’s where many of us discovered our love for the law and legal inquiry. It allowed us to sate our twin desires for editing ennui and grade-school snacks. And it forged so many of our lasting friendships. For me, TLR, more than any other institution, is responsible […]

To answer the question of how my membership on law review influenced my career as a legal academic is to tell a singular story. It is singular not because it contains only one idea, but because it is not universal. I cannot offer a generalizable account of law review’s influence on others because I carry […]

Professor Dzienkowski examines the articles, symposium articles, and student notes most cited by law journals during TLR‘s 100-year history. The data covers the most–cited scholarship of TLR‘s entire existence as well as by decade.  This essay also briefly recounts the history of the journal and its relationship to the faculty, the alumni, and the practicing bar. TLR has played an important role in the […]

Judge Costa identifies the TLR articles that courts have found most useful.  The authors of the most-cited articles include prominent UT Professors and Texas Supreme Court Justices.  The essay uses the list to draw broader lessons about the type of scholarship judges find most useful.    Criticizing law reviews is something of a judicial sport. […]