A correspondent reports:
No doubt you have seen that a lot of the law reviews now have pocket parts, debate sections, web publications, etc. People are now writing on their resume that they published in the main line law review, without any indication that it was not in the hardcopy traditional publication. Does this seem right to you?
No, it doesn’t. If I saw this on a resume, assumed that the person had published in the main journal, and then realized that he’d published in a separate online publication that the journal runs, I’d count that strongly against him. The Pocket Part is a great publication, and it’s run by The Yale Law Journal, but it’s not the same publication, it doesn’t have the same selection pool, and it shouldn’t be listed as — or count as — the same credential.