If you're in a position for publishing to be important, you should be gunning journal shit.Desert Fox wrote:For OCI you probably won't have time to have done that. You get to put journal on your resume even when you haven't done anthing.Agent wrote:Circumstances vary, but I generally think it's a better idea to sink that time into churning out solid work for either a trade publication or a broadly-circulated, newsletter-type publication. Or maybe a reputable law journal, but you could probably crank out two solid, shorter publications in that amount of time.
Then again, I guess it's easy for the publishing plan to get derailed, so maybe secondary journal participation is a safer bet. And I can see merit in some of the above comments about not being the odd man out.
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^ Good point. When I said "sink that time," I was thinking about the time it takes to write a note. Still, I think 1L summer probably leaves at least enough time to get one or two decent works in the pipeline.Desert Fox wrote:For OCI you probably won't have time to have done that. You get to put journal on your resume even when you haven't done anthing.
^ If we were talking only about law review articles, I'd probably agree. But you quoted me, and I wasn't, so I'll disagree.IAFG wrote:If you're in a position for publishing to be important, you should be gunning journal shit.
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I suppose it depends on how you define decent work...Agent wrote:^ Good point. When I said "sink that time," I was thinking about the time it takes to write a note. Still, I think 1L summer probably leaves at least enough time to get one or two decent works in the pipeline.
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And length of the work, format of the work, research/writing ability, potential co-authorship, how much you already know about the topic, resources available, etc.
A. Nony Mouse wrote:I suppose it depends on how you define decent work...
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Right. I tend to think most 1Ls aren't going to be in a position to churn out 2 decent pieces during the summer, but sure, there may be some who can. Doesn't sound like the OP's interested in that route, though.Agent wrote:And length of the work, format of the work, research/writing ability, potential co-authorship, how much you already know about the topic, etc.
A. Nony Mouse wrote:I suppose it depends on how you define decent work...
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Sorry, added another factor before I spotted your post. And I agree with this. (I guess it was the talk about publishing a note, rather than OP's post, that prompted me to mention this route.)
A. Nony Mouse wrote:Right. I tend to think most 1Ls aren't going to be in a position to churn out 2 decent pieces during the summer, but sure, there may be some who can. Doesn't sound like the OP's interested in that route, though.