Academic

A Modest Proposal from Gowder

By Lawrence Solum

Paul Gowder has a post entitled A simple reform to make law journals more useful. (revised):

Unlike law journals, many journals in other disciplines use a system such that there?s a bibliography at the end. All law reviews use a footnote system, and they invariably have many, many, many footnotes.

But bibliographies are superior in one respect for the reader: they allow one to do a quick quality check in fields in which one is familiar. One can simply flip back to the bibliography and see if the leading papers on the subject at issue are cited. If they are not cited, it is a good sign that the paper is not worth reading.

Or what about this idea--law faculties could require student edited journals to send interdisciplinary scholarship out for peer review?

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).