I've been pondering my August law review submission cover letter today.  (It keeps me from actually working on my paper.  I worked on my title yesterday.)  I think I may take a new angle.  In the past, my cover letter has been pretty standard:  this paper is amazing; it continues a vigorous dialogue on the topic, but simultaneously fills a huge void in the literature; this paper can only be written by me, a person with a long history in the topic.  This time, as I see August creeping up on me, I'm pondering a new strategy.  I call it the "Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi" strategy, as in "Help Me, [_____] Law Review, You Are My Only Hope."

The cover letter will go something like this.  Oh, law review editor, thank goodness I've gotten your attention.  I have this amazing idea -- very creative, very now, very happening.  However, this idea is lost inside of a big pile of words and footnotes that say "NEED CITE."  I have heard that your editors are the most brilliant, the most detail-oriented, and the most organized of any other law review.  I have heard stories of your editors finding authority for even the most esoteric of assertions and reorganizing paragraphs and whole sections in a way that creates logic where there was none before.  I therefore have a challenge for you.  Please accept this paper, and let's take it to new heights together.

Sort of Princess Leia meets Nigerian royal expatriate.

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