Pfander on Looking for Art in the Law Review Article

James E. Pfander, Northwestern School of Law, has published Looking for Art in the Law Review Article at the Harvard Law Blog, September 5, 2025 and as Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No, 25-44. Here is the abstract.

This short essay considers the nature of and market for legal scholarship. Taking a page or two from the book Air Guitar by the critic, Dave Hickey, the essay reflects on how we measure greatness and failure in art and in the art of the law review article. Blame for all seemingly irrelevant asides should be assigned to Arthur Leff, whose work taught us much about greatness. Failure we have all had to work out for ourselves.

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.