Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
Abstract
This article analyzes the shift of legal scholarship from the old world of law reviews to today's world of peer reviews to tomorrow's world of open access legal blogs. This shift is occurring in three dimensions. First, legal scholarship is moving from the long form (treatises and law review articles) to the short form (very short articles, blog posts, and online collaborations). Second, a regime of exclusive rights is giving way to a regime of open access. Third, intermediaries (law school editorial boards, peer-reviewed journals) are being supplemented by disintermediated forms (papers on the Internet, blogs). Blogs and internet conversations between academics are expanding interdisciplinary legal scholarship and increasing the avenues of communication among legal scholars, practitioners and a wide array of interested laypersons worldwide.
Publication Citation
10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 841-867 (2006)
Scholarly Commons Citation
Solum, Lawrence B., "Download It While It's Hot: Open Access and Legal Scholarship" (2006). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 862.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/862