For GWU Law students interested in publishing excellent papers, the Law School maintains a special service for students, described below, excerpted from an email from the head of the Law Library, Associate Dean Scott Pagel:
I am writing to share information about a new service that the Law School will be offering to our students and recent graduates, effective immediately.
In order to promote student scholarship and to subsidize student efforts to be published, the Dean has agreed to permit students to submit a manuscript to up to 25 journals using the Law School’s Scholastica account. This offer also will be extended to alumni/alumnae for a period of six months following their graduation. As those of [the faculty] who use Scholastica know, it charges for each submission. This is where [faculty] assistance is required.
In order for a student to participate in this program, she must have a full-time faculty member as a “sponsor” for the manuscript. The faculty member will be expected to read the manuscript and ascertain whether it is likely to be accepted for publication by a journal. The faculty member also will be expected to meet with the student to discuss which journals are appropriate targets for submission of the manuscript. Please note that students are not limited in the number of manuscripts that they may submit, but they must obtain sponsorship from a full-time faculty member for each manuscript.
[After a full-time faculty member has discussed the manuscript] with the student, [the faculty member should] simply send [Dean Pagel] her name and email address and [he] will take it from there. [He] will add the student to [the] Scholastica list, contact the student, and monitor use of the service.
The full policy is downloadable here:
Students in the GWU Law Government Procurement Program also may want to contact the procurement-focused journals listed on our program page, https://www.law.gwu.edu/government-procurement-law. And as always, Mary Kate Hunter, the lead librarian for the program, is a wonderful resource too.
