Tribe, an outspoken critic of the journal, acknowledges that it has not prevented feminist scholarship from receiving fair treatment.

"The Law Review has been quite admirable in publishing a wide range of feminist and other perspectives," Tribe says.

And although Parker says the Frug parody constituted an attack on feminist thinking, he points out that the original piece was published in the Review, along with four responses by other feminist scholars.

Still, Riles and Eisenberg label attitudes towards feminist legal thinking as sexist.

Riles speaks of complaints she received from other editors after she reviewed a book by Black feminist legal scholar Patricia Williams. Other editors called her criticism of Williams too soft, Riles says.

Riles says he thinks the criticism stemmed from the fact that Williams "was writing from a Black woman's point of view and they didn't like it."

WOMEN IN THE MINORITY

Like many institutions at the once all-male University, the Law Review has consisted tthroughout the years of disproportionately few women and racial minorities.

Generally, the percentage of women who apply for the Law Review has been lower than the percentage they comprise in each class, the Harvard Law Record reported in 1990.

Although women currently make up approximately 42 percent of the Law School, only about 25 percent of the editors at the Review are women.

In the Law School's class of 1992, 10 of 44 Review editors are female or approximately 23 percent, according to Sam Hirsch, treasurer of the Review.

And in the class of 1993, 15 of 41 editors, or 37 percent, are women, Hirsch says.

In 1982, after about a year of internal controversy, the editors decided to institute affirmative action policies that took race, but not gender, into account.

Estrich said that when she first went on board the Review in 1975, she was one of two women selected at editors.

As the result of an aggressive outreach effort performed when she was president in 1976-1977, seven or eight women came on the Review the following year, she says.