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If any of you have any scholarly works on law and technology issues, which includes IP, IT and medical law, SCRIPT-ed is searching for additions to upcoming issues. We publish in multiple languages, and offer a professional forum for your work.
SCRIPT-ed is the online journal of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual [...]

I’ve been discussing legal research and writing with a few different people lately; mostly chatting about the differences between UK law schools. Some require a legal research and writing course, but several do not. The University of Edinburgh, for example, just started offering, at least for the students in modules taught by the AHRC [...]

So at the Copyright and Research Conference I got into a conversation with Prof. Lilian Edwards (among others) about open access and law journals, especially in relation to how people view open access law publications in terms of the Research Assessment Exercise and in terms of things like getting positions at universities and making a [...]

The March issue of SCRIPT-ed is out, and contains a special issue entitled ‘Creating Commons’ based on the 2006 Unlocking IP conference held at the University of New South Wales, Australia at the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre.

From the Volokh conspiracy comes another post on the law reviews in the US: The Timing of the Law Review Submission Process. In it, Orin Kerr writes:
Unlike most academic journals, student-run law reviews generally permit authors to submit their scholarly articles to many journals at once. When a journal decides to accept a particular [...]

From funding by a National Science Foundation grant, the US Supreme Court Justices Database is born:
This is a multi-user, public database containing a wealth of information on individuals nominated (whether confirmed or not) to the U.S. Supreme Court (John Jay-Samuel A. Alito, Jr). Specifically, the Database houses 263 variables, falling roughly into five categories: identifiers, [...]

Student selection (US) versus peer review (UK).
Over at MoneyLaw, there is a post about a recent article evaluating (U.S.) law reviews and their relationship to Law School Rankings.
In a brief piece in the Connecticut Law Review, “Law [Review]’s Empire: The Assessment of Law Reviews and Trends in Legal Scholarship,”–which is part of a symposium that [...]