Comments on: Whither Law Reviews? http://madisonian.net/2006/01/29/whither-law-reviews/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Liridona Tubauer http://madisonian.net/2006/01/29/whither-law-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-333134 Liridona Tubauer Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:00:21 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=519#comment-333134 Great blog, will subscribe. Great blog, will subscribe.

]]> By: MT http://madisonian.net/2006/01/29/whither-law-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-21031 MT Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:34:52 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=519#comment-21031 In analogizing to the buyer-seller economy partly I was just fuzzily alluding to how traditionally (I think) we think of an economy as a bafflingly self-sustaining dynamo. Regarding such a system, to ask whether buyers are for sellers or the reverse I would think of as missing the point or at least failing to tip your hat to it. The author/publisher question struck me as like that, was what I was saying. In analogizing to the buyer-seller economy partly I was just fuzzily alluding to how traditionally (I think) we think of an economy as a bafflingly self-sustaining dynamo. Regarding such a system, to ask whether buyers are for sellers or the reverse I would think of as missing the point or at least failing to tip your hat to it. The author/publisher question struck me as like that, was what I was saying.

]]> By: MT http://madisonian.net/2006/01/29/whither-law-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-21030 MT Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:03:54 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=519#comment-21030 Speaking of the conflict of interest between academic authors and the journals that publish them, I believe that's central to the creation myth of the <a href="http://www.plos.org/about/history.html" rel="nofollow">Public Library of Science</a>. Speaking of the conflict of interest between academic authors and the journals that publish them, I believe that’s central to the creation myth of the Public Library of Science.

]]> By: Joe Miller http://madisonian.net/2006/01/29/whither-law-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-21024 Joe Miller Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:43:19 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=519#comment-21024 It's a little different from the buyer/seller question. To continue your apt analogy, if pages are the currency, law professors have a great deal of say over the printing press that churns out that currency. Most law schools heavily subsidize the publication costs of their law reviews. (Law library subscriptions and royalty income from online databases Westlaw and LexisNexis often cover only part of the print and postage costs. Of course, for the more frequently cited law reviews (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, etc.), the royalty income from electronic sources is probably quite a bit higher.) Law faculties, depending on the school, have greater or lesser control over the budget allocations to law reviews that provide this subsidy, as well as greater or lesser sway with the law review student editorial boards who set law review policy. Law faculty salaries also support the production of the scholarly material that appears in the law reviews. It's an interesting marketplace to ponder ... It’s a little different from the buyer/seller question. To continue your apt analogy, if pages are the currency, law professors have a great deal of say over the printing press that churns out that currency. Most law schools heavily subsidize the publication costs of their law reviews. (Law library subscriptions and royalty income from online databases Westlaw and LexisNexis often cover only part of the print and postage costs. Of course, for the more frequently cited law reviews (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, etc.), the royalty income from electronic sources is probably quite a bit higher.) Law faculties, depending on the school, have greater or lesser control over the budget allocations to law reviews that provide this subsidy, as well as greater or lesser sway with the law review student editorial boards who set law review policy. Law faculty salaries also support the production of the scholarly material that appears in the law reviews. It’s an interesting marketplace to ponder …

]]> By: MT http://madisonian.net/2006/01/29/whither-law-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-21016 MT Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:18:30 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=519#comment-21016 “Law reviews exist for the sake of authors, not authors for the sake of law reviews” I suspect this is like asking to what extent buyers exist for sellers and not the reverse? Scholarship is just another kind of economy. I suppose journal pages are the currency, with which you buy influence and prestige, but you could as well switch to electronic banking and the economy would go on. “Law reviews exist for the sake of authors, not authors for the sake of law reviews”

I suspect this is like asking to what extent buyers exist for sellers and not the reverse? Scholarship is just another kind of economy. I suppose journal pages are the currency, with which you buy influence and prestige, but you could as well switch to electronic banking and the economy would go on.

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