As Brian Leiter pointed out yesterday, something funny was happening over at Legal Theory Blog yesterday. And it kept happening all day! Consider:
Heise and Eisenberg on Evaluation of Empirical Legal Studies
Alexander on "Our Meaningless Constitution"
Amar on the Original Manuscript of the Constitution
Leiter on Dworkin on "Justice for Hedgehogs"
Of course, Brian wasn't just a bystander in this April Foolery.
But just to be clear, the MIT/SNESL merger was totally serious. By the way, the new Brooklyn Law NCAA basketball team – so far off when it was announced only a year ago – is almost ready to play its first game!
I think you can be sure that you've "made it" in the legal scholarship world when you can be an "author" of one of Larry's April fool's papers.
I wonder what it says about legal scholarship that none of these fake abstracts seemed entirely implausible. Paging
Alan Sokal . . . .