Legal Scholarship Network

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Timothy Stanley
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The following is a notice about the Legal Scholarship Network that is 
being formed to facilitate the distribution of scholarly information 
related to law.

Information about how to subscribe to the abstract service of the 
network is contained in the notice below (e-mail requests should be 
sent to Sandy_Barnes@Journal.Com and include "subscribe to LEA" in the 
body of the message).

PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR REPLY TO THIS MAILING LIST

Thanks,

Professor Ronald J. Gilson
Professor A. Mitchell Polinsky

P.S. You may redistribute this announcement electronically
or in hard copy, provided it is redistributed in whole.

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       ANNOUNCING THE "LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP NETWORK"
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Professors Ronald J.  Gilson and A.  Mitchell Polinsky are pleased to
announce the formation of the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).  The goal
of LSN is to facilitate the distribution of scholarly information
related to law -- to legal, economics, and business scholars and
practitioners throughout the world.  LSN is a division of Social Science
Electronic Publishing, Inc., which also sponsors the Financial Economics
Network (FEN) and the Accounting Research Network (ARN). 

The Legal Scholarship Network will soon begin publishing a series of
electronic journals of abstracts -- of working papers as well as
articles accepted for publication -- in various areas of law.  These
journals will be distributed principally via the Internet, but also may
be provided by paper, fax, or diskette.  In addition to including
abstracts of scholarly papers, the journals will carry announcements of
professional meetings, calls for papers, and job openings.  Early plans
are for journals in law and economics, environmental law and policy,
constitutional law, corporate and securities law, intellectual property
law, and tax law.  Journals in other major fields of law will follow
thereafter. 

The Legal Scholarship Network will be Co-Directed by Ronald J.  Gilson
and A.  Mitchell Polinsky.  Gilson is the Charles J.  Meyers Professor
of Law and Business at Stanford Law School, and the Marc and Eva Stern
Professor of Law and Business at the Columbia University School of Law. 
Polinsky is the Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and Economics
and Director of the John M.  Olin Program in Law and Economics at
Stanford Law School, and a past President of the American Law and
Economics Association. 

Professors Gilson and Polinsky also will serve as the Co- Editors of Law
and Economics Abstracts (LEA), the first of the electronic journals of
abstracts to be published by the Legal Scholarship Network. 

To become a subscriber to the ELECTRONIC version of LEA and subsequent
journals published by the Legal Scholarship Network, send an e-mail
request to

Sandy_Barnes@Journal.Com

Put "subscribe to LEA" in the body of the message.  LEA (and other LSN
journals) will be offered free to subscribers during an initial start-up
phase of publication. 

The Legal Scholarship Network also is considering whether to offer a
PAPER or FAX or DISKETTE version of LEA.  If you are interested in
receiving LEA in one of these formats, please send a letter or fax or
e-mail message to

A. Mitchell Polinsky, Co-Editor
Law and Economics Abstracts
Legal Scholarship Network
P.O. Box 2329
Stanford, CA 94309

(415) 855-9966 fax
Mitchell_Polinsky@Journal.Com

Include the name, title, organization, and postal address or fax number
of the person to whom issues of LEA should be sent, and whether you
prefer paper, fax, or diskette delivery.  (Also please include a voice
number to call in case there are fax transmission problems.) Depending
on the preferences of potential subscribers, LEA may be provided in one
or more of these alternative formats.  Free trial subscriptions also
will be available for these versions of LEA. 

Authors interested in having abstracts of their articles included in Law
and Economics Abstracts should submit an abstract (approximately 150
words) to Professor Polinsky.  It would be most helpful if it were
submitted by e-mail, to: Mitchell_Polinsky@Journal.Com

A "hard copy" of the article also should be sent to Professor Polinsky
at his postal address above.  Abstracts also may be submitted on a
diskette (please indicate format, ASCII preferred) or by hard copy.  If
one of these options is used, please send the abstract, plus a hard copy
of the manuscript, to the preceding postal address.  Professional
announcements should be submitted to Professor Polinsky, preferably by
e-mail. 

Professors Gilson and Polinsky welcome comments and suggestions about
the Legal Scholarship Network.  They may be reached at:

Ronald_Gilson@Journal.Com
Mitchell_Polinsky@Journal.Com