Scholarship About Legal Scholarship

June 13, 2011 - Legal Education, Legal Research & Writing

This blog focuses on posting upcoming conferences, calls for papers, and current colloquia and in-house workshops.

Readers, do you think it would be a helpful addition to include some citations to recent scholarship about legal scholarship? For example:

  • Buell, Samuel W., Becoming a Legal Scholar (May 14, 2011). Michigan Law Review, Vol. 110, No. 6, 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1840785
  • Maharg, Paul and Duncan, Nigel James, Black Box, Pandora’s Box or Virtual Toolbox? An Experiment in a Journal’s Transparent Peer Review on the Web (2007). International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 109-28, 2007. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1817767
  • Davies, Ross E., Like Water for Law Reviews: An Introduction to the Journal of Law (April 07, 2011). The Journal of Law: A Periodical Laboratory of Legal Scholarship, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-10, 2011; George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 11-15. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1804968
  • Leong, Nancy and Mullins, Jennifer, An Empirical Examination of Gender and Student Note Publication 1999-2009 (March 8, 2011). Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1781149
  • LeClair, Jean, A Review of Law Reviews: Comments of a Contented Victim (December 4, 2005). Queen’s Law Journal, Vol. 31, pp. 385-401, 2005. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1777524
  • Donovan, James M. and Watson, Carol A., Citation Advantage of Open Access Legal Scholarship (March 4, 2011). UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-07. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1777090
  • Di Valentino, Lisa, Open Access and Legal Publishing: An Annotated Bibliography (December 17, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1772228
  • Ramsay, Ian and Stapledon, Geofrey P., The Influence of Commercial Law Journals: Citation Analysis (February 10, 2011). Australian Business Law Review, Vol. 26, pp. 298-303, 1998. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1759578
  • Davies, Ross E., The Dipping Point: Law Review Circulation 2010. Green Bag Almanac and Reader, pp. 547-554, 2011 ; George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 11-01. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1738530
  • Yaphe, Andrew, Taking Note of Notes: Student Legal Scholarship in Theory and Practice (November 18, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1711533
  • Müller-Langer, Frank and Watt, Richard, Copyright and Open Access for Academic Works (June 30, 2010). Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 45-65, 2010; Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 10-09. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1647586
  • Seidman Diamond, Shari and Mueller, Pam, Empirical Legal Scholarship in Law Reviews (December 2010). Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 6, pp. 581-599, 2010. Abstract available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1708405 or doi:10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102209-152848
  • Hart, Edward T., Indexing Open Access Law Journals… Or Maybe Not (June 11, 2010). International Journal of Legal Information, Vol. 38, No. 19, 2010; University of Florida Levin College of Law Research Paper No. 2010-22. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1685994
  • Sisk, Gregory C., Hackerson, Debby , Wells, Mary and Aggerbeck, Valerie, Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties: Extending the Leiter Rankings to the Top 70 (September 30, 2010). University of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-24. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1674764

Our goal would not be to create comprehensive bibliographies–just to share some items we come across that might interest you. If you’d like to comment on this idea (or anything else related to the blog), please send a note to legalscholarshipblog [at] gmail.com.

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