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I recently published a book with a top publisher. My experience was similar to the English professor. However, happily, after…
I’d like to give the highest praise to the LSE Press, who published my book “The Open Society as an…
For anyone interested, I have put a brief essay on Instagram – the uncoolest person on Instagram? – responding to…
“given the actual number of career-worthy jobs (i.e. not per-course or adjunct positions)” The “id est” seems mistaken. Many tenure-track…
An interesting, and in my view, entirely welcome dimension of the “new” PPA has been a return to discussion of…
Daniel says a lot I agree with but on a few of the issues I’d slightly disagree. We’re facing the…
The South Carolina Law Review's efforts to enlist law professors for actual peer review of articles (about which we wrote last year) has now yielded a new, multiple-journal peer review initiative, called the "Peer Reviewed Scholarship Marketplace." If it is to succeed, it will require the participation of law professors, so take a moment, and check it out!
My colleague and I published a textbook with a major publisher several years ago, and the process was much like…