Brian Galle (Boston College), Why Is It So Hard to Publish an IP/Tax/Admiralty/WeirdLaw Article?:
“We would have accepted this article in February,” one editor-in-chief kindly wrote me not long ago, “but we’ve already accepted a tax article this year.” At the time, I took this as likely an editor’s version of “I have to wash my hair” and tried not to take it too seriously. A couple of weeks ago, though, at the OJ … a recent Chicago Law Review editor said much the same thing: once his journal takes an article from a “specialty” field, the bar is much higher for other pieces in the same field. … What’s most vexing … is that it’s driven entirely by the assumption that available slots are limited. Why not just park the second excellent tax article in the next volume? Well, that’s a thornier one. Let’s pause for comment & come back for a Part II.
See also:
- William J. Turnier (North Carolina), Tax (and Lots of Other) Scholars Need Not Apply: The Changing Venue for Scholarship, 50 J. Legal Educ. 189 (2000)
- Jasper L. Cummings, Jr. (Alston & Bird, Raleigh, NC), Academic Articles on Tax, 130 Tax Notes 1189 (Mar. 7, 2011):
- Lawrence Zelenak (Duke), Tax Scholarship: Useful and Useless, 130 Tax Notes 1337 (Mar. 14, 2011):
