Law Students: Interested in Helping With the Journal of Free Speech Law?

Our new Journal of Free Speech Law is faculty-edited, but we'd love to have help from students with cite-checking. Our American law professor authors generally have their own research assistants do that, but some of our authors are from outside the U.S., and some are practitioners or professors in other fields; for them, we do offer cite-checking. We publish both electronically and in print, and we've already published many articles, with many more in the pipeline.

If you'd like to join our team of Production Editors (this is the title we give, on our site and in our print issues), please e-mail me at [e-mail]. In particular, we'll need several people who can work on several articles over the next few weeks.

As you might gather from the job description, one thing we need is attention to detail. If your mind just absorbs information from written text, and doesn't bother you by alerting you to typos in citations and quotes, then this will be a frustrating task for you. On the other hand, if errors just jump off the page at you as you read, you'd be perfect.

Comments

[Frank Drackman]

Funny, but I don't see anything about how much it pays.

[SimonP]

"We're looking for gullible law students with free Bluebook access to do the most tedious, unrewarding part of our job for us, but done to an exacting standard, with no compensation promised except maybe a footnote acknowledgment and a line on your resume."

The nerve of this guy. "Oh, and we need you right away."

Law professors really are in their own little world.

[TwelveInchPianist]

Not sure what you're complaining about. Usually you have to pay professors to ask you to do work. This sounds like a step up!

[SimonP]

Here's an idea - we all know Josh has a spot on the VC only because he was Randy's research assistant and he's agreed to do the daily "Today in Supreme Court History" posts. He's also the sort of person who would jump at the chance to do shit work for no pay, as long as it makes him feel important. He sounds like exactly the sort of person you're looking for.

Or - perhaps you've figured out he's not much of a "obsessively detail-oriented" type, from his posts?

[AmosArch]

Let's be honest. If this was a post asking for free help with the Journal of How We Need More Censorship (of Conservatives) and Transgender Bathrooms you wouldn't have responded negatively.

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He would have responded even more negatively to Censorship of Transgender Bathrooms.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

For AmosArch

. . . and Volokh Conspiracy fans in general.

[SimonP]

Ironically, Eugene has used the Journal of Free Speech Law to publish at length about ways in which the government should be permitted to control speech on social media platforms.

As for me - no, I'm not in favor of exploiting loopholes in labor law and law school conventions to grab some free gruntwork, regardless of the political ends to which it might be put. It may come as a surprise to someone as pointlessly contrarian and nasty as yourself, but some of us have actual "principles."

[Sarcastr0]

Ain't no hypocricy like hypothetical hypocricy!

[EscherEnigma]

So is the journal's name a reference to 1984 or Fahrenheit 451? I mean, I suppose it could be both.

[Eugene Volokh]

Sorry, missing the potential references to which you're alluding.

[EscherEnigma]

In 1984, many things were named in ways that were very misleading to readers: the Ministry of Truth was about spreading lies and propaganda, for example.

Similarly, in Farenheit 451, the "Fire Fighters" were not named such because they fought fires, but because they went around starting fires.

In short: I am saying that any journal that you're involved with will not be about the promotion or defense of free speech, but about attacking and destroying it.