In the inaugural issue, Volume 1, Number 1, (March 2005) of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics (published by Oxford University Press) the Editors-in-Chief in their introduction to the issue say that: "the JCLE is a peer-edited and peer-reviewed journal that will avoid the burdensome requests that student-edited law reviews often impose on authors. We do not encourage authors to submit excessively long and heavily footnoted pieces. Submission will be judged on their intrinsic intellectual merit, rather than on their length and the amount of bibliographic information they provide." I think that it's interesting when journal's establish as part of their niche their difference from law reviews. There's no doubt that, at present, student edited law reviews predominate at the top of the academic article food chain, but then the dinosaurs too were for a time at the top of their food chain.
Posted by doyle at November 9, 2005 7:41 PM