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"The Increasingly Lengthy Long Run of the Law Reviews: Law Review Business 2012 – Circulation and Production"
Ross E. Davies
George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag
August 24, 2013
Journal of Law, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 245-271, 2013
Journal of Legal Metrics, Vol. 2, 2013
Abstract:
This article is the latest in a series of simple annual studies of the sales of some leading law reviews, undertaken with an eye to getting an admittedly rough and partial sense of the state of publishing in the legal academy. Over the years, the data itself has turned out to be a little bit interesting in spots. More interesting (perhaps), and more amusing and worrisome (certainly), have been the continuing small discoveries that some law reviews report relatively low paid circulation numbers to the U.S. Postal Service (which appear only in tiny-type government forms buried in the rarely read front- or back-matter of the reporting law review), but then tout higher sales numbers in promotional sections of their websites. I t is reminiscent of the way some law schools have number-fudged their presentation of other kinds of data to, for example, U.S. News & World Report. The law review-school comparison might prompt the reader to wonder light-heartedly how many law school deans were once law review editors. But answering that question would be too easy, and too far afield from the focus here on publishing in the legal academy. There is, however, another question whose answer might be more interesting, and more likely to lead to intriguing comparisons. The question: How have the size and composition of law review editorial staffs changed over time, in absolute terms and in terms of their relationship to the product they put out? Possible comparisons will probably suggest themselves. This year’s report covers the usual ground relating to paid circulation and associated editorial behavior. It also offers a limited and tentative first take on the production question.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 27
Keywords: Columbia, Harvard, honor code, Law Review, Michigan, post office, Postal Service, Stanford, Virginia, Wall Street Journal, Yale
JEL Classification: I2, I20, I21, I23, I29, K42
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Date posted: August 25, 2013
Suggested Citation
Davies, Ross E., The Increasingly Lengthy Long Run of the Law Reviews: Law Review Business 2012 – Circulation and Production (August 24, 2013). Journal of Law, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 245-271, 2013. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2315382
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