Given today’s date, I cold use a little cheering up. And so, I’m wondering what our readers think is the “best” (funniest? most catchy?) law review article title. You are allowed to nominate anybody’s article – even your own! I’ll start by nominating Frank Snyder’s Late Night Thoughts on Blogging While Reading Duncan Kennedy’s Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy in an Arkansas Motel Room. What are your thoughts?
Posted by Miriam Cherry on September 11, 2006 at 09:26 PM
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I think Dave Hoffman, with two votes here, is the winner. But Andy’s comment is interesting and perhaps prompts a different type of contest… Stay tuned…
Posted by: Miriam Cherry | Sep 14, 2006 4:38:46 PM
Michael T. Yu, 3 Pitt Tax Rev. Issue 2, “A Proposed Allocation of Distributable Net Income to the Separate Shares of a Trust or Estate that Eliminates Inequities under the Regulations upon the Receipt of Tax‑Exempt Interest, upon Express Distributions of Income in Respect of a Decedent, or upon Discretionary Distributions of Principal”.
Posted by: andy | Sep 14, 2006 3:18:36 PM
I liked the article, but note 33 can go screw itself. The reason we on the left find it so difficult to engage with the Bush-Jugend is that most of their beliefs derive from religious or quasi-religious (Libertarianism) authority or are so otherwise entirely detached from ordinary people’s lives that discussing issues with them is impossible. They also tend to not admit when they are wrong (Iraq war, Katrina, Bush, governance) and instead like to reject our contributions to the debate wholesale (anti-American al-qaeda sympathizers). They are also a minority in this country, an increasingly alienated minority that has squandered its moment in power, so what I’m really trying to say is enjoy the Federalist Society.
Its an interesting question of why a guy like Synder possesses zero-class consciousness or desire to improve institutions that could help guys like the younger him. Otherwise, as someone attending a school well outside the elite and trying to convince my school to start a blog, I found the article…unhelpful.
Posted by: Bart Motes | Sep 13, 2006 10:19:32 AM
Double-dipping here: how about R. Siegel, She the People: The Nineteenth Amendment, Sex Equality, Federalism, and the Family, 115 Harv. L. Rev. 947 (2002)?
Posted by: Simon | Sep 12, 2006 5:51:07 PM
S.cotus:
I believe you meant Chris Fairman’s “F***.” Which only has four leters, not the eight you suggested. The “Article is as simple and provocative as its title suggests: it explores the legal implications of the word fuck.”
It was a fairly enjoyable read.
Posted by: karl | Sep 12, 2006 5:37:54 PM
Well, if they grow up to be administrative lawyers, they can go to the Chevron station. See Peter H. Schuck and E. Donald Elliott, To the Chevron Station: An Empirical Study of Federal Administrative Law, 1990 Duke L.J. 984.
Posted by: Jed Adam | Sep 12, 2006 4:17:48 PM
Here’s another good one:
Paul Caron, Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Tax Lawyers, 13 Va. Tax Rev. 517 (1994) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=799007
Posted by: Miriam Cherry | Sep 12, 2006 3:52:54 PM
If you’re going with “Taking X Seriously,” you can’t forget David A.J. Richards, “Taking Taking Rights Seriously Seriously,” 52 NYU L. Rev. 1265 (1977).
My personal favorite, for weirdly combined, but clever allusions:
Jeanne Schroeder, “Chix Nix Bundle-O-Stix: A Feminist Critique of the Disaggregation of Property,” 93 Mich. L. Rev. 239 (1994).
Posted by: Brad | Sep 12, 2006 3:04:20 PM
I’m another vote for Dave Hoffman’s, The Best Puffery Article Ever.
I also like the two funny “Taking X Seriously” pieces:
Taking Lefts Seriously, 92 Yale L.J. 1041 Taking Takings Seriously, 80 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1591
Posted by: Kaimi | Sep 12, 2006 2:54:47 PM
Pierre Schlag has a few good ones:
Law as the Continuation of God by Other Means, 85 Cal. L. Rev. 427 (1997) Law and Phrenology, 110 Harv. L. Rev. 877 (1977) My Dinner at Langdell’s, 52 Buffalo L. Rev. 851 (2004)
Posted by: CL | Sep 12, 2006 9:33:25 AM
A. Althouse, Standing in Fluffy Slippers, 77 Va. L. Rev. 1177 (1991) (discussing Gary Gilmour and the death penalty), perhaps, for the sheer venus flytrap nature of the title as relates to the subject matter.
Posted by: Simon | Sep 12, 2006 9:14:47 AM
Tim Greaney, How Many Libertarians Does It Take To Fix The Health Care System?, 96 Mich L.R. 1825 (1998).
Nic Terrry, “Prescriptions sans Frontières (or How I Stopped Worrying about Viagra on the Web but Grew Concerned about the Future of Healthcare Delivery),” 4 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 183 (2004).
Posted by: Frank | Sep 12, 2006 9:03:42 AM
Michael Stokes Paulsen has a bunch of funny article titles, but my all-time favorite of his is Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise of Constitutional Interpretation, 59 Ala. L. Rev. 671 (1995).
Posted by: Sofia | Sep 12, 2006 8:32:14 AM
#$#$%#^!
This one: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=896790
Posted by: S.cotus | Sep 12, 2006 7:09:22 AM
I hereby nominate this one:
Thank you very much.
Posted by: S.cotus | Sep 12, 2006 7:08:51 AM
Your post title all but cries out to be answered with Dave Hoffman’s “The Best Puffery Article Ever.” That one never fails to bring a smile to my face.
Posted by: James Grimmelmann | Sep 11, 2006 11:08:34 PM
Carol Rose, The Comedy of the Commons. Alliterative, creative, descriptive, evocative, terse, and memorable. And the article’s not bad either.
Posted by: Dave | Sep 11, 2006 11:00:53 PM
Jed Rubenfeld, Antidisestablishmentarianism. (Which is actually the subject of the article!)
Posted by: Marty Lederman | Sep 11, 2006 10:26:54 PM