What's the consensus on profanity in law review articles Forum

[Businesslady]

This post is not a joke. I already searched the forums for various terms (but not individual obscenities). I am writing an excellent article (as Businesslady, of course) that I would like to publish in as prestigious a law review as possible, and am wondering how turnt up I can get.

TYIA

[rpupkin]

This post is not a joke. I already searched the forums for various terms (but not individual obscenities). I am writing an excellent article (as Businesslady, of course) that I would like to publish in as prestigious a law review as possible, and am wondering how turnt up I can get.

TYIA

If you're an unknown author looking to get published in the most prestigious law review possible, you probably should keep the obscenities to a minimum.

However, once you reach the level of Cass Sunstein or Akhil Amar, let the f-bombs fly.

[Businesslady]

Which journals have blind selection

[BearLaw]

Which journals have blind selection

I dont think there is any such thing. The process is very intensive and there is a lot of interaction. There are some instances where profanity fits (if you are writing about it, SCOUTS cases etc.). in general, I would avoid it. It wont help you, and could make someone making the choice remember you for a bad reason.

[Aeon]

Avoid profanity, unless you are directly quoting it.

[Emma.]

Avoid profanity, unless you are directly quoting it.

http://www.slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20 ... rticle.pdf

[bearsfan23]

I think Ohio State is cool with it.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm? ... _id=896790

Edit - I think this actually got published by Cardozo's Law Review

[twenty]

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm? ... _id=896790

Understanding this relationship between law and taboo ultimately yields fuck jurisprudence.

[Businesslady]

"Fuck" is actually a pretty important article, at least from a literary perspective. It's easily one of the most-read of all time in its genre, right?

[Mal Reynolds]

Avoid profanity, unless you are directly quoting it.

http://www.slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20 ... rticle.pdf

Today I learned that the "bitch" in "99 problems, but a bitch ain't one," refers to the female dog from the k-9 unit that never sniffed Jay Z's car, and not a woman.

[BearLaw]

Avoid profanity, unless you are directly quoting it.

http://www.slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20 ... rticle.pdf

Today I learned that the "bitch" in "99 problems, but a bitch ain't one," refers to the female dog from the k-9 unit that never sniffed Jay Z's car, and not a woman.

adpc hip-hop law class?

[rpupkin]

Avoid profanity, unless you are directly quoting it.

http://www.slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20 ... rticle.pdf

Today I learned that the "bitch" in "99 problems, but a bitch ain't one," refers to the female dog from the k-9 unit that never sniffed Jay Z's car, and not a woman.

And yet people still insist that legal scholarship is useless.

[MKC]

Leo Stone, On the Principal Obscene Word of the English Language, 35 INT’L J. OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS 30 (1954). There are now commentators who would disagree with Dr. Stone’s title. In their eyes, [racist language redacted] or cunt have replaced fuck as our most offensive terms. RICHARD DOOLING, BLUE STREAK 18 (1996) (“For centuries, fuck was the most objectionable word in the English language, but now [racist language redacted] and cunt are probably tied for that distinction, and fuck has at long last stepped down.”). One British study recently ranked fuck in third place behind motherfucker (second) and cunt (first). See History of the Word “Fuck,” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia,

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cf ... 90&mirid=1

This is the best footnote I've ever read.

One recent Internet search revealed that fuck “is a more commonly used word than mom, baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet.

[sublime]

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[chuckbass]

What are you writing about BL?