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A three-year effort by the editors of seven top law journals culminated with the April launch of the , an online magazine featuring ideas found in the law reviews of ������, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Stanford, and the University of Chicago.

The intent is to provide free legal scholarship in a readable, accessible format, said Matthew Lawrence ’09, former managing editor of the , whose efforts were integral to the Web site’s launch. The Legal Workshop presents short, plain-English articles written by an author whose related, full-length work of scholarship appears in one of the participating law reviews. In June, Senior Circuit Judge Harry Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and a visiting professor at ������ School of Law, for instance, published an engaging editorial about judicial politics that uses personal experience to illustrate the ideas in a Duke Law Review article that he co-authored with Michael Livermore ’06, “Pitfalls of Empirical Studies That Attempt to Understand the Factors Affecting Appellate Decisionmaking.”

A not-for-profit joint venture, the Legal Workshop is operated by current and former student editors. The idea came about at a 2006 meeting of editors in chief of top law reviews who shared how they were struggling to make their individual Web sites viable. Erin Delaney ’07 embraced the idea of a collaboration, and the editors of the ������ Law Review took the lead in cutting through the legal red tape to form a multistate consortium of private and public entities. “It was a simple vision,” said Lawrence, “but it took a lot of hard work to make it happen.”