about the blog review
We hope that this blog will provide
(1) daily announcements regarding new and interesting-sounding legal articles,
(2) pointers to judicial opinions that contain more scholarly analyses,
(3) notice on what journals are running behind on their publication schedules,
(4) information about what various law reviews are doing,
and (eventually)
(5) brief summaries of current articles, perhaps with discussion-board links to them,
(6) announcements for law review symposia and calls for papers.
(1) daily announcements regarding new and interesting-sounding legal articles,
(2) pointers to judicial opinions that contain more scholarly analyses,
(3) notice on what journals are running behind on their publication schedules,
(4) information about what various law reviews are doing,
and (eventually)
(5) brief summaries of current articles, perhaps with discussion-board links to them,
(6) announcements for law review symposia and calls for papers.
contributors
andy
Andrew B. Loewensten is a litigator at law firm in a major East Coast city. His interests include sovereignty (foreign and domestic) and international law.
david
David Dudley is a government antitrust lawyer by trade, mostly because he wanted to work in an area of law where policy mattered as much as the case law. His work focuses on antitrust issues related to the pharmaceutical industry. His interest areas are law and philosophy, law and economics, antitrust, international trade, and class action litigation. In his spare time he enjoys reading philosophy, running long distance, and listening to indie rock.
frank
After a nomadic childhood in several red states (KY, OK, TX, AZ), Frank Pasquale has settled in the Shaw neighborhood of the District of Columbia. He studied law at Yale, politics at Oxford, and got a summa in used book collecting at Harvard. His articles include "Two Concepts of Immortality: Reframing Public Debate on Stem Cell Research" (14 Yale J. L. & Hum. 73 (2002)) and "Beyond Napster" (with Matt Fagin and Kim Weatherall) (8 B.U. Sci. L. Tech 451 (2002)). His interest areas are bioethics and intellectual property.
liz
An attorney in Chicago, Liz is slowly removing herself from the practice of criminal law. She spends too many nights lying awake thinking about the death penalty and too much time at work reading about the latest tech law brouhaha. In between, she drinks whiskey, walks the dog, and remains a pragmatist at heart. She anticipates her contributions to be all over the map.
michele
Michele clerked for a federal judge and is about to begin working in a public defender's office in a major American city. In between, she had a fellowship at a public interest organization. She will focus on criminal law, family law, and feminist theory, but she can't rule out forays into critical race theory and employment law now and again. She likes to run (but not as fast as David), cook, and . . . eat.
simon
Simon will send a bio soon. But for now, he just wants to say that his focus will be on legal history and law and humanities.
steph
Steph is an appellate environmental litigator for the federal government. She's written about environmental justice and about scientific amici. Her reading interests, with respect to legal scholarship, include environmental law, appellate advocacy, empirical studies of judicial and practitioner behavior, and law and science policy. And she's a big fan of Professors Steven Goldberg, Vicki Jackson, Richard Lazarus, and Cass Sunstein. Among many others. Like Dahlia Lithwick. And she likes metafiction, the color blue, dogs and iguanas of all shapes and sizes, and indie pop.
Andrew B. Loewensten is a litigator at law firm in a major East Coast city. His interests include sovereignty (foreign and domestic) and international law.
david
David Dudley is a government antitrust lawyer by trade, mostly because he wanted to work in an area of law where policy mattered as much as the case law. His work focuses on antitrust issues related to the pharmaceutical industry. His interest areas are law and philosophy, law and economics, antitrust, international trade, and class action litigation. In his spare time he enjoys reading philosophy, running long distance, and listening to indie rock.
frank
After a nomadic childhood in several red states (KY, OK, TX, AZ), Frank Pasquale has settled in the Shaw neighborhood of the District of Columbia. He studied law at Yale, politics at Oxford, and got a summa in used book collecting at Harvard. His articles include "Two Concepts of Immortality: Reframing Public Debate on Stem Cell Research" (14 Yale J. L. & Hum. 73 (2002)) and "Beyond Napster" (with Matt Fagin and Kim Weatherall) (8 B.U. Sci. L. Tech 451 (2002)). His interest areas are bioethics and intellectual property.
liz
An attorney in Chicago, Liz is slowly removing herself from the practice of criminal law. She spends too many nights lying awake thinking about the death penalty and too much time at work reading about the latest tech law brouhaha. In between, she drinks whiskey, walks the dog, and remains a pragmatist at heart. She anticipates her contributions to be all over the map.
michele
Michele clerked for a federal judge and is about to begin working in a public defender's office in a major American city. In between, she had a fellowship at a public interest organization. She will focus on criminal law, family law, and feminist theory, but she can't rule out forays into critical race theory and employment law now and again. She likes to run (but not as fast as David), cook, and . . . eat.
simon
Simon will send a bio soon. But for now, he just wants to say that his focus will be on legal history and law and humanities.
steph
Steph is an appellate environmental litigator for the federal government. She's written about environmental justice and about scientific amici. Her reading interests, with respect to legal scholarship, include environmental law, appellate advocacy, empirical studies of judicial and practitioner behavior, and law and science policy. And she's a big fan of Professors Steven Goldberg, Vicki Jackson, Richard Lazarus, and Cass Sunstein. Among many others. Like Dahlia Lithwick. And she likes metafiction, the color blue, dogs and iguanas of all shapes and sizes, and indie pop.
about the law review tracker
How to use the tracker: When you first open up the tracker, it displays all the journals in the database in the ordered that they were entered. If you want to list them alphabetically, click the "Title" heading at the top of the column. Same goes for all the other characteristics, like "Issues per year" and "Timeliness."
Also: The Blawg Review's Law Review Tracker is still in development. Please remember that we're all just a bunch of regular lawyers over here (i.e., not academics with research assistants), and, as such, have no additional resources to help us with what is basically a volunteer effort on our parts. And it takes a bit of time to look up all the information for each journal, because often it is scattered throughout the journal's web page (or even throughout the web).
And because Steph, the main assembler of the entries for the Law Review Tracker, doesn't have an infinite amount of time on her hands, she's adding new entries in a manner that is gradual and doesn't take up a lot of time each day. What she does is only enter in entries for journals when they publish new issues (as documented on the University of Texas "This Month's Contents" page). Thus she only has to enter in around two to six journals a day. This means, however, that if a journal hasn't published an issue since the inception of this journal, most likely it won't be in the database.
How you can help: If you find that the database is lacking an entry for a particular journal, and you want that journal in the database, pronto (i.e. before it has published its next issue), then send us the complete information for that journal. Thanks!
Also: The Blawg Review's Law Review Tracker is still in development. Please remember that we're all just a bunch of regular lawyers over here (i.e., not academics with research assistants), and, as such, have no additional resources to help us with what is basically a volunteer effort on our parts. And it takes a bit of time to look up all the information for each journal, because often it is scattered throughout the journal's web page (or even throughout the web).
And because Steph, the main assembler of the entries for the Law Review Tracker, doesn't have an infinite amount of time on her hands, she's adding new entries in a manner that is gradual and doesn't take up a lot of time each day. What she does is only enter in entries for journals when they publish new issues (as documented on the University of Texas "This Month's Contents" page). Thus she only has to enter in around two to six journals a day. This means, however, that if a journal hasn't published an issue since the inception of this journal, most likely it won't be in the database.
How you can help: If you find that the database is lacking an entry for a particular journal, and you want that journal in the database, pronto (i.e. before it has published its next issue), then send us the complete information for that journal. Thanks!
