Book looks at law review humor.

Law reviews--those crusty, footnote-laden stalwarts of the legal profession--are getting an image makeover.

In a new book titled "Amicus Humoriae: An Anthology of Legal Humor" (Carolina Academic Press 2003), three law professors are showing off the lighter side of law reviews.

Starting with hundreds of candidates, Robert M. Jarvis of Nova Southeastern University and Thomas E. Baker and Andrew J. McClurg of Florida International University spent months picking out the 25 funniest law review articles of recent times. These are reprinted in full, together with a lengthy bibliography for those who want to delve even deeper into the subject.

"It really was a labor of love," Jarvis said. "Contrary to popular opinion, law reviews publish lots of funny pieces. But they tend to appear randomly, and there's no easy way to find them--legal indices don't separately list these articles."

The trio was especially well-prepared for the daunting task facing them. Baker, for example, already was working on the legal humor bibliography when Jarvis proposed the book, while McClurg, the former humor columnist for the ABA Journal, was busy keeping lawyers laughing with his award-winning Web site www.lawhaha.com.

The book is divided into five main sections--law students, law professors, lawyers, judges, and legal scholarship--while the...

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