Academic

Lawyers, Guns, and Money

By Alfred Brophy

This morning I'm not thinking of Warren Zevon's song.  (He has some strange songs, no?  I never understood what Werewolves of London was all about.)

Instead, I'm thinking about this list of scholars whose work the NRA Civil Defense Fund has funded.  There's some real money in some of those grants.  

Of particular interest to me is that David Hardy received $15,000 for research that included a review of Saul Cornell's A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America, which appeared in the William and Mary Bill of Rights Law Journal, and an article on standing, which appeared in the Thomas Jefferson Law Review.

Why this particular interest for me?  For one, I'm interested in the process of book reviewing, changes in numbers of books being reviewed, and which journals publish reviews, particularly works on legal history.  And I'm also interested in the future of the book and the selection of book reviewers. (The discussion of book reviewing appears at page 23 of "Mrs. Lincoln's Lawyer's Cat: The Future of Legal Scholarship," which I linked to in the previous sentence.)

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on January 02, 2010 (boomark / email).