Legal Commentary

The Risk and Value of Journal Proliferation in the Age of Open Access
?India does not need any more journals, especially localized institution-based ones, if that is what you mean. We already have too many journals, most of them third rate. What we need is to look for ways by which we can convince many of these journals to close down...

Which Journals Do You Read Regularly And Why
A graduate student nearing the end of his studies writes: How many philosophy journals do you follow closely? Obviously all of us become familiar with a sizable number of journals as we try to keep abreast of research that is...

Best Journals for Articles in the History of Philosophy
We haven't done a journals poll in a good while, so here's one on a topic we have not covered previously, namely, journals which publish the highest quality work in history of philosophy...

Lex Opus - Free Online Submission of Your Law Review Articles
LexOpus is a new service at Washington and Lee Law School offering free online submissions to law journals. Authors can submit articles to all interested law journals, inviting journals to make offers...

A Modest Proposal from Gowder
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...

The Cost of Those Scholarly Journals
The Chronicle of Higher Education's Jennifer Howard reports on the costs of publishing humanities and social sciences journals. They cost more than three times as much to publish as do science journals, according to a new study.