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From the Editor: Some Lessons of Hindsight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

William M. O'Barr  and
Michael D. Layish
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Law & Society Review , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , 1997 , pp. 633 - 636
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Copyright © 1997 by The Law and Society Association

References

1 The specific number of submissions to the Review for the last three years is 170 (1995), 106 (1996), and 122 (1997).

2 We publish only a small number of the manuscripts we receive, thus making LSR a highly selective peer-reviewed journal. The acceptance rates for recent years are 13% for 1994, 14% for 1995, and 14% for 1996.

3 Over 2,500 copies of each issue of the Review go to libraries and individual members of the Association around the world.

4 Volume 2, Number 1 of the Review was devoted in its entirety to school desegregation. It contained eight case studies dealing with the situation in various U.S. cities in a symposium entitled “Affirmative Integration: Studies of Efforts to Overcome De Facto Segregation in the Public Schools,” four additional articles in a section entitled “Reflections on Recent Studies in Race and Education,” and a bibliography on de facto school segregation. Richard D. Schwartz was editor of the Review at the time the issue was published.

5 Volume 27 contained two issues that dealt with themes that emphasized race. Number 1 contained symposium entitled “Research on the Death Penalty” that contained four articles collected together from regular submissions to the Review. Number 2 of the Review contained the first of several “mini-symposia” instigated by Frank Munger during his tenure as General Editor. The issue contained a symposium on “Crime, Class, and Community—An Emerging Paradigm” introduced by John Haganj an Associate Editor of the Review.

6 Volume 25, Number 2, published in 1991, was a special issue on “Gender and Sociolegal Studies” which resulted from a call for papers on this topic by General Editor Shari Seidman Diamond. Carrie Menkel-Meadow served as co-editor. In addition to seven main articles in the issue, two review essays edited by Joseph Sanders also dealt with gender topics. In 1994, a special issue in Volume 28, No. 3, edited by Jane Collier, David Engel, and Barbara Yngvesson, was devoted to “Law and Society in Southeast Asia.” Many of the articles in that issue dealt with gender. This symposium was published during Frank Munger's editorship.

7 The themes of the death penalty and crime that resulted in a significant emphasis being placed on race also privileged class (see note 5 above). This comes as little surprise, since race and class are widely discussed dimensions along which these are known to vary.