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Appeals to the public interest in law are commonplace, but typically made without clarifying what the public interest is and how it can be determined. In law, this has led to ad hoc applications of the public interest and, consequently, to "judicial idiosyncrasy," posing a threat to legal certainty. This paper aims to remedy these problems by providing much‐needed conceptual clarification. It proposes that something is in the public interest if it increases the opportunities of the members of the public to pursue and realize the (permissible) ends they all share qua equal members of the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the publication of Hart's Concept of Law, Dworkin published his article "The Model of Rules," dividing positivism into two varieties: inclusive and exclusive. Many theorists involved in this debate have characterized Hart's position as inclusivist, which we reject in this article. We argue that Hart, in the postscript to The Concept of Law, conceded a point to Dworkin in accepting that inclusive positivism would imply the existence of objective moral standing, adopting a more "neutral" position—compatible with inclusive and exclusive positivism—and consequently distancing himself from the incorporation thesis, which is paramount to inclusive positivism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Journal articles from most academic disciplines have long shown high rates of citation errors. American law reviews, with their careful cite-checking, are a rare exception to the overall rule. Incorrect citations are especially costly and problematic for interlibrary loan librarians. This article offers practical suggestions to address the problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A preface to the "Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy" is presented.

Academic reviews (hereinafter "reviews") are an integral part of legal journals. While their purpose and usefulness are at times disputed, all sub-disciplines of legal studies nevertheless argue in equal measure that a lack of substantial academic exchange by way of reviews would result in the impoverishment of scientific discourse. In German criminal law scholarship, two recent cases have sparked debate about whether certain rules should govern the publication of such reviews. The following remarks are intended to provide a thought-provoking impulse on the matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the legal issues involved in the sex-based exclusionary practice of the "American University Business Law Review." Topics discussed include comparisons to affirmative action jurisprudence, conflict with the American University's stated anti-discrimination policy, and the difficulty of proving standing to bring a lawsuit. It also assesses whether Title IX protections apply to law reviews.

The variety of legal history published in general‐interest law journals tends to differ from the variety published in history journals. This study compares the two varieties by examining footnote references in five general‐interest law journals and footnote references in two journals of legal history. In the law journals, cases and statutes accounted for the single largest group of footnotes (approximately 35%), followed by references to other law journal articles (nearly 25%). In the legal history journals, these two categories accounted for less than 20% of all references; primary and secondary historical materials predominated in the footnotes. To be sure, legal decisions and law journal articles can also be historical sources: rather than being used as evidence of what the law is, they might be studied for what they reveal about legal reasoning or rhetoric in an earlier age. However, in most legal historical research that attends primarily to cases and statutes, these materials figure as evidence of the state of the law at that time. When the analysis relies on legal sources to trace the development of a certain doctrine and treats them as sufficient to account for that development, the result is the distinctive style of research that I seek to contrast against approaches that cast the net of historical inquiry more widely. To account for these different approaches, I suggest that law professors rely on a notion of proximate causation as a historiographic method. According to this approach, legal developments are proximately caused by other developments in the legal sphere, and other social and cultural developments play more attenuated roles, such that their influence is less significant. By proposing this explanation, I hope to draw more attention to assumptions about causation in legal historiography and to question their persuasive force. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pressure to distinguish high quality from lower quality law journals is intensifying. To contribute to this debate, citation-based and peer review-based ranking of law journals are paralleled in the paper, using qualitative and quantitative analysis. It is found that all law journals that are considered as journals of the highest quality by legal experts are also ranked highly in Web of Science (WoS) and that 40% of the law journals categorised as 'internationally leading' by the peers are not listed in WoS. This paper explores what the editors of some of the internationally leading law journals that are not listed in the WoS think about applying to be listed in it. The paper offers data to support the contention that legal scholarship is characterised by regionalism in academic publishing and citation patterns. It is submitted that there is no perfect indicator of quality, and that no evaluation system will ever convince every legal scholar in the world of its value. WoS could be adopted as a rigorous and internationally recognised index for law journals only if it were aligned more closely with the Leiden Manifesto. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text is an imprint of the journal "GesR: Gesundheitsrecht". It contains information about the publisher, the editor, the editorial team, the production, the sale, and the marketing of the journal. Information about subscriptions, prices, and copyrights is also provided. In addition, reference is made to the possibility of self-study according to § 15 FAO. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the highlights of the "St. Thomas Law Review Symposium" on Race and Policing in America moderated by professor andré douglas pond cummings of the University of Arkansas in 2021. Editor-in-chief Daniel Tenjido mentions the goal of the periodical. Deputy prosecutor Caleb Conrad explains the role of brutal policing as an adverse childhood experience. Professor Todd Clark cites the importance of using a hip-hop artist to emphasize the impact of such experiences.

The section offers information on the Spring 2021 issue of "American Business Law Journal," including information for contributors, its table of contents, and its editorial team.

The rise of online-only law journals (OLJs) in both prevalence and prestige has resulted in debate over how to properly rank them compared to their flagship print counterparts. This Article reports the findings of a first-of-its-kind study that measured law school faculty perceptions of online-only law journal scholarship. The often counterintuitive results illustrate the severity of misinformation surrounding the topic. The results also allow for the creation of a rule-of-thumb ratio to help tenure track faculty decide where to publish and help those serving on hiring committees and tenure and promotion committees weigh the scholarly achievements of applicants. Additionally, this article is a valuable resource for journals considering the transition to an online-only modality among coronavirus budget cuts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study carries out a bibliometric analysis of Annual Review of Legal Psychology from 1991 to 2019. Data were collected from a database that allows for the analysis of authors, institutions, countries, gender, topics, and impact. The results enable us to observe gender discrepancies among authors, with a a higher frequency of women (50.2%), and the number of signatures (53.7% men). Over the years there is an increase in the number of authors and signatures, of co-authorship, a higher presence of international signatures, representing 23.5% between 2011 and 2019. Three collaboration groups were identified, two from Spain and one from Colombia. Categories of Legal and Forensic Psychology and Psychological Evaluation and Testimony are the most represented in the published studies. It is possible to conclude that Annual Review of Legal Psychology is a referent in its field, especially for authors and practitioners from Latin-American countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the citation patterns of Hong Kong Law Journal since 1971, its first year of publication. Citation data reveal an increase in the number of cited documents, the number of times cited and speed of getting cited over the years. Articles from the journal also have a long citation time span, attracting cites many years after publication. Citation hotspots on specific topics and the top papers are identified showcasing the areas of scholarly impact. Further, there is an expanded network of citing authors and citing journals worldwide. These findings indicate an enhanced and sustained influence of the scholarship of Hong Kong Law Journal beyond the legal field with cross-disciplinary impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses diversity in law schools, barriers to achieving a diverse student body, and the relevant law for considering race and gender for applicants in institutions of higher education. It mentions intersection of law journals and diversity and unpacks policies that have contributed to this homogenous membership. It also mentions diversity policy in selecting new journal editors in Case Western Reserve University law journals could implement.