Looking for Laughs in All the Law Places
Legal research can be a real slog. But have you ever noticed that titles to law review articles are oftentimes actually entertaining or even really funny? Here at the library we run into these little gems all the time. We thought we would share with you some of these punny ones we’ve collected:
∙ Drew A. Driesen, Vanity Lawfare: Vanity License Plates and the First Amendment, 106 Iowa L. Rev. 363 (2020)
∙ Shivani Patel, The IP of IPAs: A Look into Trademark Infringement in the Craft Beer Industry, 26 J. Intell. Prop. L. 249 (2019)
∙ Terence J. Lau & William A. Wines, Take Two Tablets and Do Not Call for Judicial Review until Our Heads Clear: The Supreme Court Prepares to Demolish the Wall of Separation between Church and State, 43 Val. U. L. Rev. 595 (2009)
∙ Matthew Parry & Melinda A. Parry, Theirs Not to Reason Why, Theirs But to Make Law Review or Die: A Critique of the Law Review System and Annotated Bibliography, 23 Legal Reference Services Q. 29 (2004)
∙ Kathryn Starshak, It’s the End of the World as Musicians Know It, or Is It — Artists Battle the Record Industry and Congress to Restore Their Termination Rights in Sound Recordings, 51 DePaul L. Rev. 71 (2001)
∙ Michael Stokes Paulsen, Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise of Constitutional Interpretation: Some Modest Proposals from the Twenty-Third Century, 59 Alb. L. Rev. 671 (1996)
∙ J. M. Balkin & Sanford Levinson, How to Win Cites and Influence People, 71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 843 (1996)
∙ Michael Stokes Paulsen, A RFRA Runs through It: Religious Freedom and the U.S. Code, 56 Mont. L. Rev. 249 (1995)
∙ Jeanne L. Schroeder, Chix Nix Bundle-O-Stix: A Feminist Critique of the Disaggregation of Property, 93 Mich. L. Rev. 239 (1995)
∙ Paul L. Caron, Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Tax Lawyers, 13 Va. Tax Rev. 517 (1994)
∙ Patrick T. Murphy, Section 27A of the SEA: An Unplugged Lampf Sheds No Constitutional Light, 78 Minn. L. Rev. 197 (1993)
∙ Designer Genes that Don’t Fit: A Tort Regime for Commercial Releases of Genetic Engineering Products, 100 Harv. L. Rev. 1086 (1987)
∙ Michael D. Green, From Here to Attorney’s Fees: Certainty Efficiency and Fairness in the Journey to the Appellate Courts, 69 Cornell L. Rev. 207 (1983–84)
∙ Richard S. Markovits, Duncan’s Do Nots: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Determination of Legal Entitlements, 36 Stan. L. Rev. 1169 (1984) (WB)