tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post8358003495129047069..comments2023-10-23T18:40:13.347-04:00Comments on CLASS BIAS AND RANDOM THINGS LAW REVIEW: Priming the Law Review Pump.Jeffrey Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11647017160134065739noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post-1457724614742569242011-08-15T15:46:15.686-04:002011-08-15T15:46:15.686-04:00I sincerely hope all those law profs who want to b...I sincerely hope all those law profs who want to be fair and thoughtful when it comes to students read this. It really is a completely illegitimate use of power. Thanks for holding firm!Jeffrey Harrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647017160134065739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post-26361277485768840142011-08-15T14:38:32.263-04:002011-08-15T14:38:32.263-04:00This post is interesting to me because I had first...This post is interesting to me because I had first-hand experience with “priming the pump” when I served as the Executive Articles Editor of the Florida Law Review. Occasionally a professor would approach me and mentioned an author’s name and said something like “I know this person and s/he is a well-respected.” That didn’t bother me, and most professors who approached me did it that way. <br /><br />But I had one terrible experience with one of my professors attempting to “prime the pump.” The Editor-in-Chief, Executive Managing Editor, and I were all in his class, and he approached us after I had already rejected the article. Out of courtesy, we took another look at the article and decided that the correct decision was made the first time around. But the professor kept bringing it up to all three of us by email and after class even after we told him that we re-reviewed the article and were going to pass. Since all three of us were in his class, we all felt enormous pressure to publish the piece. We held our ground and stuck to our decision, but he made it extremely difficult.Natenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488416.post-30074645548126224252011-08-10T11:45:34.490-04:002011-08-10T11:45:34.490-04:00I am adding this to my blogroll. There is a defin...I am adding this to my blogroll. There is a definite class and cultural bias in American "legal education."<br /><br />It is sad to see many law students of modest means give up their true identity, in order to fit into this supposed "profession." The fact is that "the law" - as an institution - is often a tool of oppression.Nandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06423524039657355134noreply@blogger.com