Dear Scottish (and other) colleagues:
I've been trying to do something of this sort in correspondence with both the JR editor, Rebecca Standing, and the marketing person, Alan Bett. (And, yes, I have a self-interest in this, as author of "The Donoghue Diaries"!)
There is some good news, in that I've been told that Green's will make this issue available as a standalone purchase for non-subscribers. So that deals with the first point in John's email. I've also suggested that: (i) Green's/Sweet & Blackwell/Thomson Reuters (one gets the image of small fish being chased by progressively bigger ones) should be using the web to market this edition; and that (ii) there is a role for making electronic versions available for purchasing and indexing. The website for JR is particularly woeful, and the marketing person I've been in touch with, Alan Bett, has acknowledged this. He sent me an email about an hour ago saying that "we have now set it [the issue] up as a separate product so it will appear on its own page with copy relating directly to it" and that "customers will be able to buy this special issue as a standalone title, unrelated to the subscription."
This still doesn't address the second point in John's email, so I think that having JR get enquiries from various people would help them get more in sync with the way the publishing world is working nowadays. Articles need to be available online, not only so that they can be purchased, but so that they can be indexed and made available through legal search engines.
Yours truly,
wrote:
You may find this hard to access, though. The Juridical Review is the only legal periodical published in the United Kingdom that is not available online, not even for a fee from the publishers. This is a very great pity, and not good for Scotland's impact on legal scholarship. There were really good papers at the conference that are now published here.
The next issue of the Juridical Review is devoted to papers from the British Association for Comparative Law/Scottish Association for Compartative Law symposium at the Society of Legal Scholars meeting this autuumn. The theme was cross border issues between Scots and English law. Some of the papers conern the law of obligations.
The publishers of the Juridical Review ar Sweet and Maxwell, under their Scottish imprint W Green and Son. Some of us in Scotland are trying to assert discrete pressure on them to make it available online. An email to the publishers asking how one gets it in that form, especially one outside Scotland might assist us in this!
John Blackie
(Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Strathclyde)
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On 4 Nov 2013, at 22:32, "Donald Macdonald" <d.r.macdonald@dundee.ac.uk<mailto:d.r.macdonald@dundee.ac.uk>> wrote:
ODG members might like to know that the latest bumper issue (2013:3; 500 pp) of the (Scottish) Juridical Review is devoted entirely to papers given at a conference about Donoghue v Stevenson in 2012. Contributors range from Australia to Canada, and perhaps further afield.
I note that one contributor (I forget who) quotes a Scots student of his as saying that no self-respecting Glaswegian would think of drinking ginger beer with ice cream. From the nation that gave us the deep-fried Mars Bar (admittedly a more recent invention), that may be debatable.
Happy reading
Ross Macdonald (School of Law, University of Dundee)
From: Jason Neyers [mailto:jneyers@uwo.ca]
Sent: 02 November 2013 11:16
To: obligations@uwo.ca<mailto:obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: ODG: Interesting New Article
Dear Colleagues:
Many of you will be interested in a new article by Mark Gergen, entitled "Negligent misrepresentation as contract" 101 Cal. L. Rev. 953-1011 (2013). The Article challenges the prevailing view which classifies the claim of negligent misrepresentation as a tort. Instead it argues that negligent misrepresentation is best understood as a contractual claim akin to promissory estoppel, with the gist of both claims being invited reliance (http://www.californialawreview.org/articles/negligent-misrepresentation-as-contract).
There is much discussion of the work of ODGers such as Stephen Smith, Peter Benson, Rob Stevens, John Goldberg and Ben Zipursky.
Happy Reading,
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