Friday’s Scholarship About Scholarship
This installment of Friday’s Scholarship About Scholarship might more aptly be labelled “Blog Posts About Scholarship,” but I’ll still with the meta label. To suggest something for this (nearly) weekly post, send a note to legalscholarshipblog[at]gmail.com
Do you tend to assume that everything you need is on your favorite online system? A law librarian at the University of Toronto looked at which Canadian law journals were available on Lexis, Westlaw, or HeinOnline. Fewer than half of the journals were available on two or more of the platforms. See John Papadopoulos, Canadian Law Journals on Commercial Databases, SLAW, Aug. 17, 2011.
Eugene Volokh explores what makes a good article title by analyzing Twombly Is the Logical Extension of the Mathews v. Eldridge Test to Discovery. Eugene Volokh, An Enlightening Law Review Article Title, Volokh Conspiracy, Aug. 24, 2011.
Legal History Blog interviewed Lawrence Friedman on scholarship:
- Q & A with Lawrence Friedman: The First Book, Legal History Blog, Sept. 12, 2011
- Q & A with Lawrence Friedman: On Writing, Legal History Blog, Sept. 13, 2011 (“How do you write so much?”)
- Q & A with Lawrence Friedman: On [synthesis], Legal History Blog, Sept. 16, 2011
Ilya Somin discusses How Lawprofs Outside the Top 15 Schools Can Still Have a Big Impact on their Fields, The Volokh Conspiracy, Sept. 12, 2011.
Colin Miller ponders Old Question: How Do You “Rank” a Specialty Journal? New Question: How Do You Rank an Online Law Review?, PrawfsBlawg, Sept. 8, 2011.
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