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The Problem of Gender Inequity: The Legacy of Deborah Rhode
Joanna L. Grossman
Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and the Law and Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law.

When I agreed to contribute an essay reflecting on the work of Deborah Rhode, I expected it to be in her honor rather than in her memory.

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Reading Erwin Chemerinsky
Michele Goodwin
Michele Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor of Law & Founding Director, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, at the University of California, Irvine.

In 2014, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and Jesse H.

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Guido Calabresi’s “Other Justice Reasons”
Adam Davidson
Harry A. Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law, The University of Chicago Law School.

Thank you to John Rappaport, Elizabeth Reese, and Ryan Sakoda for your insightful comments. To the Honorable Guido Calabresi, thank you for your inspiration, your advice, and your community.

The Honorable Guido Calabresi (or Guido, as he requests seemingly everyone he meets personally to call him) is among the most-respected and most-cited legal scholars of all time. The reason for this is obvious: his work has reshaped our fundamental understandings of how the law affects our lives.

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Lessons to be Learned from Peter Yu
John T. Cross
Grosscurth Professor of Law, University of Louisville School of Law.

To those of us who teach and write in intellectual property law, Peter Yu was an obvious choice for this special edition of the University of Chicago Law Review.

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The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited
Fred R. Shapiro
Associate Library Director for Collections and Access, Yale Law School; Editor, Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations; Editor, New Yale Book of Quotations.

I mention, only to help those trying to determine whether any biases underlie my comments about law schools, that I have a J.D. from Harvard Law School. The University of Chicago Law School offered me a very nice scholarship, but I foolishly declined it.
I owe tremendous debts to Yale Law School’s former Law Librarian and Professor of Law Teresa Miguel-Stearns and the Interim Law Library Director, Jason Eiseman, for their extraordinary encouragement and support. In preparing this study, I received excellent advice especially from Akhil Reed Amar and also from Anne Alstott, Lauren Edelman, Harold Hongju Koh, Jonathan Macey, Nicholas Parrillo, Judith Resnik, and Tom Tyler. None of them should be held responsible for any errors or misjudgments that I have made. I was extremely fortunate to have the benefit of the intelligence and productivity of an outstanding research assistant, Sophie Laing.

Citation analysis has been around for a long time in law. Indexes of cases cited by the cases printed in reporter volumes may be found as far back as 1743, when an English reporter, Raymond’s Reports, contained “A Table of the Names of the Cases” in which “The cases printed in Italic are cited cases.”

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