The Importance of Scholarship to Law School Excellence

As we have learned from Dan Coquillette, Bob Kaczorowski, and John Sexton, access to substantial funding is undoubtedly a prerequisite for a law school to enjoy excellence. Funding, that is, is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for excellence. Something else—intellectual vision—is also required

Legal and Constitutional History

Since the publication of the last Legal and Constitutional Histo, surveytwo years ago, the field has seen an extraordinary outpouring ofsignificant literature. In part, the literature was a product of the bicentennialcelebration. The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, theVirginia Law Review, the De Paul Law Review, and even the PublicContract Law Journal published bicentennial issues, each of which containedseveral historical articles. In addition, the Law and Society Reviewpublished a two-issue Festschrift in honor of the retirement of thepreeminent legal historian of the last three decades, James Willard Hurst. These special issues, together with the volumes of the AmericanJournal of Legal History that have been published during the past twoyears, contain extensive and important periodical literature to whichmany major figures in the field have contributed. Individual commentupon the articles is impossible; all that can be said is that most of themdeserve examination by any scholar seeking to remain current in thefield