简介理查德·波斯纳法官和其他学者都曾对美国由学生运行的法律评论提出批评〔1〕,他们声称学生没有教职人员所有的必要的知识深度和学术编辑工作的必需经验。〔2〕在很多案例中,评论、编辑文章的学生编辑缺乏关于文章主题的相关知识,也没有编辑他人作品的经验。鉴于此,他们认为,学生编辑对于承担美国法学学术(legal scholarship)“守门人”的集体角色准备不足。如果这一判断成立,那么由学生运行的法律评论其价值应仅在非学术方面,例如为雇主提供招聘机制。〔3〕 INTRODUCTION Judges Richard Posner and others have criticized American student-run legal commentary [1], claiming that students do not have all the necessary depth of knowledge and necessary experience in academic editorial work for faculty members. [2] In many cases, student editors who comment on or edit articles lack relevant knowledge about the subject matter of the essay and have no experience in editing the work of others. In view of this, they believe that student editors are unprepared to take on the collective role of legal scholarship, gatekeeper, in the United States. If this is true, the value of legal reviews run by students should be non-academic only, such as providing employers with hiring mechanisms. [3]