War Stories From the Peer-Review Front

Stories about how student law review editors bungled, mis-handled, and ill-treated law professors and our work (especially empirical work) abound.  Some of the more outrageous are the stuff of urban legend.  (To be fair, I know student editors have more than a few stories of their own that feature misbehaving faculty.)  Indeed, a desire to have peers (presumably, knowledgeable peers) review and referee our work helps explain law professors' growing attraction to peer-reviewed journals.  The peer-review process, however, is far from perfect.  For those interested, the political science journal monitor includes an interesting thread on peer-review war stories.

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[Jason Wojciechowski]

If somebody wants to throw some weight around at my school to ensure I get an editor position in two years, I'll put my mathematics background to good use in evaluating your empirical work.