The Chicago-Kent Law Review acting as the frontman for the Joyce Foundation, and publishing the Symposium papers in its review, did those papers go through the regular review process -- or was the "generous support" of the Joyce Foundation enough to guarantee that the papers wouldn't get the extensive note-checking treatment that reviews are famous for? It would be an interesting exercise to check the notes to Bellesiles essay, in particular, and see if they accurately portray the material and its import -- I say, in particular, because Reinhardt leads off with reference to another classically Bellesilesian (that's a mouthful) quote, where the quoted material is tacked on to something else not relevant to the quote.
The Chicago-Kent Law Review website says it is completely student-run. It also says that it is an all-symposium format, and it solicits and depends on interested parties to bring the symposium to them, rather than Chicago-Kent organizing it themselves. In fact, the wording strongly suggests that the outside party who proposes and puts together the symposium (and chooses the participants and greenlights the papers), will also be the editor: http://lawreview.kentlaw.edu/authors_webpage.htm This suggests that Carl Bogus, a former counsel to a gun-contol group, dreamed up the symposium, or at least was the party that approached the review with a complete and detailed plan (though the Joyce Foundation may have been a prime-mover), and in fact "edited" the papers. Therefore, I suppose the student editors are reduced to the notes section. I think this fully justifies my characterization of the law review as renting itself out.
The Chicago-Kent Law Review website says it is completely student-run. It also says that it is an all-symposium format, and it solicits and depends on interested parties to bring the symposium to them, rather than Chicago-Kent organizing it themselves. In fact, the wording strongly suggests that the outside party who proposes and puts together the symposium (and chooses the participants and greenlights the papers), will also be the editor: http://lawreview.kentlaw.edu/authors_webpage.htm This suggests that Carl Bogus, a former counsel to a gun-contol group, dreamed up the symposium, or at least was the party that approached the review with a complete and detailed plan (though the Joyce Foundation may have been a prime-mover), and in fact "edited" the papers. Therefore, I suppose the student editors are reduced to the notes section. I think this fully justifies my characterization of the law review as renting itself out.
by Richard Henry Morgan on January 16, 2003 at 9:03 AM