Journal of Free Speech Law: Publish Your Article in 2½ Months
I’d like to again solicit submissions to our peer-reviewed Journal of Free Speech Law, and mention one of our great advantages: We can publish quickly (by the standards of academic journals), if that’s what you’d like.
Our most recent article, for instance, was submitted to us April 8. We require submissions that are exclusive to us, but we promise an answer within 14 days; in this instance, we accepted it on April 16, and passed along the reviewer comments to the author. (We offer such comments whether the article is accepted or rejected, and I understand they can be helpful to authors regardless of our decision.)
We ask our authors to have the articles cite-checked by their own research assistants (though if the author doesn’t have access to an RA, we are generally able to help with that), and we give authors time to polish up the article some more, if they’d like. Here, the author took a bit over a month to do that—no problem from our perspective—and gave us a revised draft May 22. We then got the author an edit from one of our Executive Editors; the author got the edit back to us; we got the author a proofread from our proofreader; the author got that back to us; and then we did a final proofread, which the author got back to us in turn.
On June 24, we published the article, basically 2½ months after we received it. (Some articles might take longer, for various reasons, but this was 40 pages, a roughly average-length article.) And we could have published it even earlier, if the author had wanted to, since
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