Susan Giusti maintains a compilation of the published writings of the Widener University School of Law full time faculty. They are organized by books, chapters, articles, and other.
If you have any questions, please contact Susan Giusti.
Do you have a blog, webpage, or other site specific to your curriculum or personal interests? Please let us know so we can include it on your profile page for the website.
You can share the same articles, book chapters, texts, etc., on BePress, SSRN, Scholastica, and any other outlet you choose.
If you have any questions, please contact Susan Giusti.
Below are some resources that can help you navigate Scholastica and the submissions process.
To make sure that an article you are writing is covering new ground and is not on a topic that has already been addressed, you can search in the Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP), Lexis, LegalTrac, and Westlaw. Remember, you can track a topic or set an alert to get a customized email from CILP, Lexis or Westlaw.
All faculty members can have a page on the BePress Selected Works site.
With Selected Works you can add or revise papers; upload a bio, picture, and CV; and upload multimedia. You can announce and distribute your articles, working papers, presentations, and talks to your personal network of readers and colleagues, or build a network of people who follow your work; use RSS feeds; create readership reports and custom categories; and it is optimized for Google and Google Scholar to attract new readers.
If you have any questions, please contact Susan Giusti.
Susan Giusti coordinates the uploading of your papers to SSRN. This will ensure that your paper will be included in the Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series. It will have a proper cover sheet and series number attached to it.
Please include the final pdf version, if possible. We can convert it to pdf if necessary.
Please include citation if published.
Please include abstract, keywords, and JEL codes. If you need a list of JEL codes, please contact Susan.
If you have a co-author, please include all contact information for them.
It is best that you do not post papers through your own account. Although they will be accepted by SSRN, they will then be forwarded to Susan for a cover sheet and a series number. At this point, she will have to contact you for permission to access your account and the posting, and then re-post the paper after updating it.
If you have any questions, please contact Susan Giusti.
The Legal Scholarship Network, part of SSRN, publishes electronic journals consisting of working and accepted papers, author contact information and conference announcements. Widener subscribes to the Legal Scholarship Network. You do not need an account to search SSRN, but an account will allow you to sign up for email alerts of new papers.
University Law Review Project is a free site where you can sign up to receive abstracts of new law reiew articles by email or submit an abstract for distribution. This site is a partnership among Stanford, Australasian Legal Information Institute, Jurist, the Legal Information Institute, and Findlaw.
Online supplements - an increasing number of law journals are publishing supplemental material online. Some of these journals accept shorter, original pieces of scholarship while others only publish responses to articles published in their print editions. See the article by Colin Miller, Submission Guide for Online Law Review Supplements, Version 7.0 (7/22/2013).
Blogs - consider starting your own law blog or joining another blog. The Law Professor Blogs Network has a list of law professor blogs.
The library is now a "registrar" for Perma.cc http://perma.cc/ This is a new service run by the Harvard Law Library, Harvard Law Review Perma.cc to archive online sources in law reviews and court opinions. It is basically a combination URL shortener and archiver.
With a Perma.cc account, you can create links to archived versions of web pages cited in your work. All you have to do is specify the URL of the page you want to preserve. Perma.cc will store the page and give you a unique Perma Link that you can use to direct readers to the preserved page.
Links become permanent when they are “vested” by someone affiliated with a vesting organization, such as a journal or court. Perma.cc limits vesting privileges to help prevent abuse and to focus on solving the problem of link rot in academic and legal writing.
Perma.cc provides multiple archive formats for each archived page and gives account holders a dashboard to organize all the links they’ve created. Once links are vested, they become part of the permanent archive that ultimately will be maintained by a network of participating libraries.
Perma.cc, developed by the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, is a caching solution to be used by authors and journal editors in order to integrate the preservation of cited material with the act of citation. Upon direction from a paper author or editor, Perma will retrieve and save the contents of a webpage, and return a permanent link. When the work is published, the author can include that permanent citation in addition to a citation to the original URL, or just the permanent link, ensuring that even if the original is no longer available because the site goes down or changes, the cache is preserved and available.