My first publication (in 1982) was in a law review, but I rarely read law-review articles. They're long-winded, self-indulgent, and filled with basic philosophical mistakes. Here is a New York Times article about legal writing. Key paragraphs:
The justices had very little good to say about articles published in law reviews.
“What the academy is doing, as far as I can tell,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said, “is largely of no use or interest to people who actually practice law.”
A mediocre philosopher can run intellectual circles around the best law professor. Sad but true.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 