* Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington
University Law School; A.B., Harvard College, 1985; J.D., Harvard Law School,
1988. E-mail address: gmaggs@main.nlc.
gwu.edu. The author presented a version of this essay at the annual meeting
of the National Conference of Law Reviews on March 15, 1996, in Lexington,
Kentucky.
1. Bernard Hibbitts, Last Writes?: Re-assessing the Law Review in the Age of Cyberspace (version 1.0, Feb. 5, 1996) <http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts /last.htm>.
4. See id. at 2. The Harvard Law Review began publishing in 1887. See id.
11. For perhaps the best collection of complaints about student editing, see James Lindgren, Fear of Writing, 78 Cal. L. Rev. 1677, 1680-94 (1990). The Chicago-Kent Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, and the Journal of Legal Education have also published symposia on this issue. See 70 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 71-152 (1994); 61 U. Chi. L. Rev. 527-58 (1994); 36 J. Legal Educ. 1-23 (1986).
12. Hibbitts suggests that the American Association of Law Schools should compile such a directory. See Hibbitts, supra note 1, at 20.
13. A listing of leading directories of fine web sites appear at <http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/ World_Wide_Web/Best_of_the_Web/>. For information on the compilation of these and other directories, see Denise Caruso, Wanted: Web Site Reviewers, N.Y. Times, Feb. 26, 1996, at D5.
14. Lycos, Inc., a company that offers many services on the Internet, has perhaps the most popular service mark. It allows selected sites to display a logo bearing the words "Top 5% of the Web." For information, see <http://www.pointcom.com.>.
15. The author apologizes to the Akron Law Review for any delay he has caused with this slightly tardy essay. [Apology accepted. -Eds.]