Posted by Orin Kerr:
More on Why We Write:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_05_29-2005_06_04.shtml#1117394808
As promised, [1]Eric Muller has weighed in with his answer to what
motivates him to write. It's an interesting answer, I think, because
it is honest about a gap that I think many youngish law professors
feel: the difference between scholarship written for the purposes of
career advancement and scholarship written because the writer feels he
or she has something important to say. (Of course, that doesn't mean I
don't have something really important to say in my latest article
project, From Critical Theory to Abu Graib: Akhil Amar, Paris Hilton,
and the Reconstruction of Due Process in Cyberspace.)
While we're on the topic, don't miss this classic essay on [2]Why I
Write by George Orwell. Thanks to David McGowan for the link.
References
1. http://www.isthatlegal.org/archive/2005/05/why_i_write.html
2. http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/write.html
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