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Wednesday, November 05, 2003

Law Review Drinking Game

Reading a law review article can be boring. But it doesn't have to be.

>Take one drink whenever you get to a footnote
>Take two drinks whenever that footnote is at least three paragraphs long
>Take one drink every time a foreign-language source is cited
>Take one drink for every block quote
>Take one drink for every "supra"
>Take one drink for every "see generally"
>Take one drink every time the author uses a Latin phrase just for effect (inter alia, arguendo, etc.)
>Take one drink for every "however"
>Take one drink for every "hereinafter"
>Take one drink for every "id."

>Take two drinks for every sentence written in the passive voice
>Take two drinks for every sentence that runs more than a page in length
>Take two drinks for every parenthetical inside another parenthetical
>Take three drinks for every quote inside a parenthetical inside a quote inside a parenthetical
>Take two drinks for every cite to "conversation with author"
>Take two drinks for every generic web citation -- "see generally, The Internet," "see, e.g., www.google.com"
>Take two drinks for every new level of outline you reach -- "part II.C.3.b.iv explains..."
>Take two drinks for every quote from an opinion by Justice Holmes
>Take three drinks for every quote from an opinion by Justice Scalia

>Drink everything that's left if you actually finish the article in one sitting