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Download It While It's Hot: Open Access And Legal Scholarship, Lawrence B. Solum
Download It While It's Hot: Open Access And Legal Scholarship, Lawrence B. Solum
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article analyzes the shift of legal scholarship from the old world of law reviews to today's world of peer reviews to tomorrow's world of open access legal blogs. This shift is occurring in three dimensions. First, legal scholarship is moving from the long form (treatises and law review articles) to the short form (very short articles, blog posts, and online collaborations). Second, a regime of exclusive rights is giving way to a regime of open access. Third, intermediaries (law school editorial boards, peer-reviewed journals) are being supplemented by disintermediated forms (papers on the Internet, blogs). Blogs and internet conversations …
Beyond The Moot Law Review: A Short Story With A Happy Ending, Randy E. Barnett
Beyond The Moot Law Review: A Short Story With A Happy Ending, Randy E. Barnett
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
When the author began teaching at the Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1982, it was publishing at great expense a law review that few cited, few professors would write for, and few, if anyone, read. For this reason, he dubbed it a "moot law review" in that students were working hard to produce a publication that mimicked "real" law reviews-that is, law reviews that contribute to intellectual discourse and the body of legal knowledge.
The fact that you are reading this page (and others in this issue) is evidence that the Chicago-Kent Law Review is no longer a moot law …