So look, here’s the thing, law professors. You benefit wildly in the academic sense from the fact that there is a veritable fuckload of publications where you can place your work, which happens because publications are now seen as Things All Students Must Do.

You benefit wildly from the fact that peer review is not required or expected, and there are only a small number of peer-reviewed journals. Your colleagues in other departments have a whole other department to work on.

The way you justify this offloading of work—and it is an offloading of work—is that it’s for the student’s benefit because they’re going to be learning about legal scholarship and yadda yadda yadda something something.

If that is the case, then getting on here and complaining about how students didn’t do the work the way you liked it is KIND OF giving away the game.

Either this is a learning experience for them, and you offer them privacy with regards to their mistakes, and instruction...

...or you stop pretending that this is anything other than just a MASSIVE offloading of your time onto students.

You just got a FREE edit. And a FREE placement of a journal article. And back when I was a professor, many law schools paid a premium for placement of journal articles, I think mine offered like an extra $10K for a top-50 journal placement?

ONE of you is getting paid for it, and it’s not the one who can complain on Twitter about the work.

What if the person in the relationship who can teach things, and is getting paid for the experience, is you? And what if the person who can learn things, and is paying literal money for it, is them?

I literally just saw a law professor grousing about how nobody teaches student law journals anything and HELLO WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DRAGGING?

Is it student law journals? Or is it actually law professors?