Judging law reviews

There’s a great discussion going on over at the Empirical Legal Studies blog, where legal scholars are thinking about the merits, problems and functions of law reviews. This forum was prompted by research by Jason Nance and Dylan Steinberg, “The Law Review Article Selection Process: Results from a National Study.” Many of the points apply [...]

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Royal Society honours health law professor

Congratulations are due Professor Timothy Caulfield, who has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. It is the highest honour to be given Canadian scientists and scholars, and is well deserved by this preeminent scholar of health law and policy.

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Discovering Natural Rationality

I’d like to direct you to a post by Benoit Hardy-Vallée, a U of Toronto philosopher of science interested in neuroethics and neuroeconomics. It is a nice discussion of the Knobe Effect, supported by a good list of references.
Take a look at some of the other posts as well, and subscribe to his RSS feed. [...]

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When peer review goes bad

The editor of Economic Inquiry hits a nerve with his decision to change the process of peer review at his journal. A combination of sloppy authorship and hyper-editorial referees means…
The system is broken. Consequently, Economic Inquiry is starting an experiment. In this experiment, an author can submit under a ‘no revisions’ policy.
Hat tip goes [...]

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Open access myths – on both sides of the fence

Michael Geist points to a Globe and Mail article about the open access movement. I would have liked more from the interview with University of Toronto’s head librarian – the two words about subscription costs (“It’s alarming”) probably distill a 20 minute conversation -  but it is good to see this in the popular press. [...]

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