Law Reviews and Full Disclosure

Rather I propose an editorial policy that puts in footnote number one the relevant affiliations of the author. If the article is paid for, I would not necessarily require the disclosure of the amount of the fee; the fact that there was a fee would be sufficient. If there were no fee but a client\u27s interest was reflected in the article, I would want disclosure of that client\u27s identity. If the author was a freelancer in a particular field, I would want a general statement that his professional interest lay in the direction of certain types of litigation. That kind of editorial policy would put the law reviews on a high, respected plane, and would give them new prestige and vigor and restore them to what Chief Justice Hughes once called the \u27fourth estate of the law