Legal Research Methodology I

Topic 3: How to publish in law, overcoming the obstacles of the review process (workshop, 14 May 2021)

The third session will be focused on various advices how how to organize your academic career, how and where to publish and details about the review process.

Home assignment

Be prepared to speak about your experiences with academic publishing - have you written and submitted any article, book chapter, review etc.? What was your strategy how to publish? If you did not submit anything yet, what are your plans in this regard?

Sources to read or view

Joseph Weiler: Career Strategy and the Publication Trap (on how to plan your academic career and publishing advice)

Joseph Weiler: Presenting a Paper in an International (and National) Conference (on how to present a paper...)

Joseph Weiler: Contributing to edited books (advantages and pitfalls of publishing to edited volumes)

Robert Luther: Practical Tips for Placing and Publishing Your First Law Review Article (2016)

Although the text focuses on publishing in the US law reviews, many of those tips are generally applicable to European/Czech environment as well (or at least consider them)

Video: "Publish, not perish" (15. 3. 2021)

Experiences with publication, drawing on perspectives of speakers as journal editors and as authors. The aim of this event was to provide insight and advice particularly to early-career academics who hope to learn more about publishing, and about submitting their work to leading journals.