The Scribes manual for law review editors / Darby Dickerson, Brooke J. Bowman, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickerson, Darby, 1963- editor.

Bowman, Brooke J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law reviews--United States.

Law reviews.

Law--Study and teaching--United States.

Law.

Periodicals--Publishing.

Periodicals.

Law--Study and teaching.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxx, 323 pages : illustration ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, [2022]

Summary:

"Our goal for this Manual is to help new editors understand their roles and responsibilities, learn how the review fits within their law school's program of legal education, anticipate challenges, plan for the year, and gain tips and ideas to improve the review. We hope faculty advisors and incoming editors will use this Manual during the annual transition process. We also hope editors will use the Manual as a resource when different challenges or questions arise during the year. The Manual can also assist law review members considering an editorial position and faculty members who teach seminars for student-editors"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Why Law Reviews Exist / Maureen B. Collins

A. A Brief Introduction to Law Reviews in the United States

B. How Law Reviews Contribute to the Profession, Academy, and Society

1. Shaping the law

2. Impacting the academy

3. Training future leaders

C. Conclusion

2. Law Review as an Academic Activity / Pamela Wilkins

A. Introduction

B. An Overview of Law School Accreditation and ABA Standards

C. ABA Standards and School Policies Relevant to Law Reviews

1. Academic credit for law review generally

a. Relevant ABA Standards

b. Relevant school policies

c. Best practices to prevent or mitigate common problems

2. Standard 303(a)(2): The upper-level writing requirement

a. Overview of Standard 303(a)(2)

b. Standard 303(a)(2) and academic credit for student papers: Opportunities and landmines

3. The Business of Law Reviews / Darby Dickerson

B. Legal Status and Relationship to the Law School

1. Journals that are part of the law school

2. Journals published by separately incorporated entities

3. Nonprofit status

C. Governing Documents

D. Budgets and Finance

E. Contracting Authority

F. Fundraising

G. Events

H. Working with Law School Staff

I. Physical Space

1. Journal space in general

2. Maintaining the journals physical space

3. Equipment in the journal's physical space

4. Access and safety

a. Accessibility

b. Permitted access

c. Safety and security

5. Appropriate use of journal space

6. Other space on campus

J. Websites and Webpages

K. Miscellaneous Matters

L. Conclusion

4. Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Practices for the Law Review and Legal Scholarship / Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb

B. Equitable Recruitment and Retention Practices for Law Review Members

C. Assessing Scholarship That Engages Critiques of the Law

1. Critical legal studies

2. Feminist jurisprudence/feminist legal theory

3. Critical race theory

4. Critical race feminism

D. Critical Citation Practices

5. Understanding Philosophical Movements Law Review Editors May Encounter / Kristen David Adams

B. Formalism

C. Natural Law

D. Positivism

E. Legal Realism

F. Law and Economics

G. Critical Legal Studies

H. Feminist Jurisprudence

I. Queer Theory

J. Empirical Scholarship

K. Interdisciplinary Legal Study

L. Mainstream Legal Scholarship

M. Evaluating a Prospective Article

N. Conclusion

O. Reading List

6. Working with Law Librarians / Annalee Hickman Pierson

A. An Introduction to Law Librarians

B. Core Law Library Services for Law Reviews

1. Assigning a liaison librarian for support, training, and institutional knowledge

2. Helping find material for checking footnotes

3. Coordinating interlibrary loans

4. Formatting citations for sources

5. Permalinking resources for archiving websites

6. Preserving materials on an institutional repository

7. Explaining journal rankings, impact factors, and citation metrics and identifying and evaluating quality law review articles

8. Consulting with student-authors about preemption checks, research, and submitting for publication

C. Ongoing Library Administrative Support for Law Reviews

1. Creating journal-level library accounts

2. Allocating library space for journal use

3. Providing library equipment for source retrieval

4. Acquiring library materials and databases for the library collection that support journal needs

D. Less Common Law Library Services for Law Reviews

1. Plagiarism checking

2. Assisting with publication contracts

3. Advising on copyright

4. Improving discoverability for archived materials

E. Final Thoughts

7. Common Editorial Positions and the Selection of Editors / Lindsey Gustafson

B. Board Position Descriptions Should Create Separate but Overlapping Roles and Be Regularly Evaluated for Continued Effectiveness

C. The Board Selection Process Should Be Student Centered, Transparent, and Inclusive

D. Typical Board Positions Should Be Tailored to the Particular Needs of Each Law Review

1. Editor in Chief

2. Managing Editor

3. Executive Editor

4. Articles Editor

5. Student Writing Editor

6. Research Editor

7. Candidacy Editor

8. Symposium Editor

9. Communications Editor

10. Diversity Editor

8. Effective Editorial Board Transitions / Austin Martin Williams

B. Pitfalls of Unsuccessful Transitions

C. Key Documents, Information, and Checklists

1. Knowledge management

a. Online web platform

b. Document storage solution and retention policies

c. Insights and understandings

d. Online accounts and passwords

e. Financial information and accounts

f. Contact information

2. Calendars and checklists

a. Calendars

b. Checklists

D. Post-Election Processes

9. Leadership Styles for Law Review Editors / Ashley R. Hilliard

B. Six Leadership Styles

1. Democratic leadership

2. Affiliative leadership

3. Authoritative leadership

4. Coaching leadership

5. Coercive leadership

6. Pacesetting leadership

C. Choosing the Best Approach

D. The Leader as Follower

E. Leadership Tactics

1. Understand the law review constitution, bylaws, and other policies

2. Listen

3. Establish and maintain deadlines

4. Team check-ins

5. Retrospective meetings with returning members

6. Performance improvement plans

F. Handling Other Sticky Situations

1. Faculty advisors

2. Negative peer feedback

3. Ethical issues

4. Editor isolation

10. Selecting Journal Candidates Wes E. Henricksen

B. Methods of Getting onto a Journal

1. Grade-on

2. Write-on

a. The main assignment: Casenotes and comments

b. The citation or proofreading exercise

c. The personal statement

d. Write-on variations

3. Combine-on

4. Note-on

5. Walk-on

C. Ways to Ensure the Selection Criteria Address Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

1. Broadcast the opportunity

2. Ensure that the opportunity is inclusive

a. Logistics

b. Qualifications

c. Perceptions/sense of belonging

3. Address diversity explicitly in the selection process

D. Conclusion

11. Orientation and Training for Editors, New Staff Members, and Returning Staff Members / Carolyn V. Williams

A. Training New Editors

B. Training New Staff Members

1. Orientation

a. Timing and format

b. Recruiting outside help

c. Learning about the journal and meeting the team

d. Cite-checking instruction

2. Instruction on writing a student article

a. Recruiting help

b. Timing and format

c. Components of effective guidance

C. Continuing Training for Returning Staff Members

12. Working with Student-Authors / Jessica Lynn Wherry

B. The Student-Author Experience

1. Motivations and goals

2. The scholarly writing process

3. Articles of publishable quality

C. Common Challenges for Student-Authors

D. Common Challenges for Student-Editors

E. The Ideal Student-Author/Student-Editor Collaboration

F. Giving Thoughtful Feedback

1. Topic and thesis development

a. Pitfalls for student-authors

b. Suggestions for student-editors

c. Editorial feedback

2. Research and background development

3. Drafting the analysis section

4. Feedback and revision

5. Finalizing the piece

6. Leveraging technology throughout the writing process

13. Author Relations / Mark Cooney

A. About Your Author

B. Working with Different Types of Authors

1. Academic authors

2. Same-school academic authors

3. Symposium authors

4. Judicial authors

5. Practitioner authors

6. International authors

C. Typical Author Concerns

D. Communicating with Your Author

1. Offers to publish

2. Rejections

3. The need for regular communication

4. Expect a positive experience

5. Author preferences

6. The internet factor

7. Author attentiveness

8. Mistakes

E. Defending Your Edits

1. Cite a specific rule in your preferred style manual

2. Rely on house style

3. Stay tactful

F. Coping with Tinkerers

G. Problem Authors

H. Asking for Rewrites or Supplements

I. Final Author Signoff

Sharing the Galley

J. Authors' Marketing Concerns

K. Negative (or Hostile) Reactions to an Author's Work

14. The Editing Process / Michael J. Higdon

B. The Various Rounds of Edits and Journal Efficiency

1. The layers of a journal article

2. Efficient edits

C. Being an Effective Editor

1. Respecting authorship

2. Restraining oneself

3. Phrasing edits

4. Managing writers' expectations

15. Journal Production and Dissemination - Brent Domann

Contents note continued: B. Choosing a Publishing Medium and Printer

1. Print vs. digital

2. Traditional print publishing or print-on-demand?

3. Print-on-demand services

a. Choosing a print-on-demand service

b. Typical limitations

c. Formatting for print-on-demand

C. Managing Subscriptions

1. Maintaining a subscriber list

2. Calculating production costs

a. Printing costs

b. Packaging costs

c. Postage costs

d. Including offprints in subscription costs

e. Additional considerations

D. Delivering Physical Copies

1. Subscription vs. author copies (offprints)

2. Sourcing mailing materials

E. Digital Delivery

1. Digital production standards

2. Working with database vendors

F. Miscellaneous Considerations

1. Handling royalty payments

2. Copyright considerations

3. Preserving publications

16. Post-Publication Consequences / Christine Anne George

B. Citation Metrics

1. Traditional metrics

2. Alt-metrics

C. Persistent Identifiers

1. ORCID

2. DOIs

D. HeinOnline Rankings and the Citation Gap

1. HeinOnline's author profiles

2. The citation gap

E. Conclusion

17. Managing Copyright Issues for Law Reviews / Benjamin J. Keele

B. Economic Value of Law Review Articles

C. Copyright Law Fundamentals

1. Eligibility and ownership

2. The bundle of sticks

3. Library exception and the fair use doctrine

D. Law Reviews as Users

1. Deciding when permission is needed

2. Obtaining permissions

E. Law Reviews as Publishers

1. Copyright transfer or license

2. Creative Commons and educational use licenses

F. Law Reviews as Managers

G. Conclusion

18. Policies for Law Reviews on Archiving Internet Sources / Clanitra Stewart Nejdl

B. Link Rot and Reference Rot

C. Citation Rules and Archiving Internet Sources

1. The Internet Archive

2. Perma.cc

D. Establishing Archival Policies for Law Reviews

1. Selecting an archival tool

2. Responsibility for the archival process

3. Preparing an archival policy

4. Continuity for future boards

19. The Editorial Adventure / Brooke J. Bowman

B. Lesson 1: Pause, Plan, Then Respond

C. Lesson 2: Be Aware of and Use Resources

D. Lesson 3: Seek Growth Opportunities for Yourself and Your Journal

E. Lesson 4: Learn to Listen Actively

F. Lesson 5: Be Self-Aware and Self-Reflect.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Scribes manual for law review editors

ISBN:

9781531022716

1531022715

OCLC:

1321077152