Although I don't know about the JLSE or ABLJ, my own experience generally
is that journals typically don't mind if the author has previously
circulated drafts or working papers, even working papers that are
relatively close to completion.  This makes sense because journals are
likely to get higher quality submissions if the author has gotten input
from other scholars.  I personally have put several working papers in the
various SSRN online journals, which are advertised as working papers, and
the journals to whom I subsequently submitted did not care.  Whether you
let the journal to which you subsequently submit about the previous
circulation is up to you; the clear norm seems to be that it is not
unethical to refrain from telling the journal because of the general
acceptance of the practice.  Again, the overall effect is to produce higher
quality submissions.

John


At 04:11 PM 3/1/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi All:
>
>Two years ago when I was president of the Pacific N.W. chapter we had a
>discussion on this issue.  We decided that when papers were presented at
>conferences and then put into proceedings they were not "published."  We
>considered the proceedings to be merely repositories of the handouts from
>the meetings, more neatly arranged.  The papers so included were to have
>some disclaimer on them such as "Draft for Discussion Purposes Only," and of
>course only about 25 or 30 copies of the proceedings were printed, for our
>group, at least.
>
>'Course this could be an incorrect interpretation.  But if you say that
>papers in such proceedings are "published" people are certainly going to be
>discouraged from presenting early drafts and allowing them to be put in the
>proceedings because then they could not take the feedback from the
>conference, improve the paper and submit it.
>
>Dan Warner.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith A. Maxwell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:50 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: "Previously Published"
>
>
>ALSBers:
>
>In the "Information to Contributors" section in the JLSE it states that
>"the Journal dies not accept previously published manuscripts...." Similar
>language appeears in the ABLJ. Can anyone tell if this applies to papers
>appearing in regional or national proceedings?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Keith
>
>
>
>Keith A. Maxwell                        | Phone: (253) 879-3703
>Professor of Legal Studies and Ethics   | Fax:     (253) 879-3156
>University of Puget Sound               | e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
>Tacoma, WA 98416                        | www.ups.edu/faculty/maxwell