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 Part 5  Is There Too Much Legal Scholarship:  What Accounts for Too Much of the Wrong Type
of Scholarship?

              A perfect
academic storm has created this trouble state. Each facet is a necessary part.
They are 1) the self-interest of administrators and professors, 2) the goals of
law schools and law professors, 3)

 Part 4: Is There Too Much Legal Scholarship? Justifications for
Legal Scholarship

There are many arguments in response
to the position that there is too much legal scholarship.  As noted above, one of those justifications is
based on the public good character of legal scholarship. That argument falls
short for the reasons discussed above.

 Part 3: Is There Too Much Legal Scholarship: The Costs and Qualities of Legal Research

              Before examining arguments in support of legal research at current
levels, it is important to be specific about what is being defended both in terms
of costs and quality.

1. The Cost of Legal
Scholarship

Legal research is

  Part 2: Is There Too Much Legal “Scholarship”?:
A Quasi Economic Perspective 
The Author and the Audience: Supply, Demand,
and Public Goods

              One methodology for determining whether too much or too little is
produced is to rely on supply and demand. For a number of reasons, a
traditional economic approach is not appropriate