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Authors

Richard Delgado

Abstract

The Editors of the Akron Law Review have asked me what I think of Bernard Hibbitts's suggestion that legal scholars do away with the law review as an institution and publish their work directly on the Internet, as he has done.

I like the idea of publishing one's work directly on the Internet. Self- publishing has a long and honorable history. Indeed, our early colonial patriots surreptitiously typeset tracts and pamphlets like Common Sense in homes and small back-alley print shops and distributed them themselves a method that could be likened to today's desktop and Internet publishing. Even in our day, one reads of self-publishing or vanity press books that outsell ones put out by mega-presses like Oxford or Princeton. Many such books boast a spontaneity and originality the products of these other presses cannot match.

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