Instapundit links to an ABA Journal item about how it costs about $100,000 for top law professors to write a law review article. While I am skeptical of the assumptions behind that $100,000 per law review article published (that half of a law professor's time each year is spent on research and writing), my only reaction is: why are they so inefficient? I occasionally write law review articles that have an influence--and I could whip out five or six of them a year, if someone was paying me to do that full-time. It would be so interesting and so much fun, it would not take $100,000 a year to persuade me to do it, either.
I was surprised to find out that many law schools actually compensate their professors for getting law review articles published. I wish it worked that way for non-law professors!
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