In The Author as Adversary at Iowa Law Review, University of Kentucky Law School Assistant Professor Ramsi Woodcock delivered a blistering critique of his experience in publishing The Efficient Queue and the Case Against Dynamic Pricing, 105 Iowa L. Rev. 1759 (2020). I won't attempt to summarize or excerpt his 3,000 word harangue, which begins:
If there were a law professor named Frankenstein, what would his creation be?
Maybe Iowa Law Review.
Rather than treat me as a partner in publishing an article of mine that the journal accepted back in 2019, the journal treated me as an adversary.
Several Law Prof luminaries have weighed in on the saga:
- Paul Horwitz (Alabama), Absolutely, Law Schools—and Their Faculty—Are Responsible for the Actions of Law Reviews
- Orin Kerr (UC-Berkeley), I Confess I Find Myself More Sympathetic to the Law Review Than Others Such as @BrianLeiter Seem to Be
- Brian Leiter (Chicago), Some Very Odd Behavior by Student Editors at the Iowa Law Review
