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Evaluating Academic Legal Research in Europe: The Advantage of Lagging Behind

Evaluating Academic Legal Research in Europe: The Advantage of Lagging Behind

Author: Rob A.J. van Gestel; Andreas Lienhard
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781788115490
Published In: April 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Legal academics in Europe publish a wide variety of materials including books, articles and essays, in an assortment of languages, and for a diverse readership. As a consequence, this variety can pose a problem for the evaluation of academic legal research. This thought-provoking book offers an overview of the legal and policy norms, methods and criteria applied in the evaluation of academic legal research, from a comparative perspective.

The expert contributions explore developments relating to professional vs academic publications, editorial review vs peer review, rankings of journals and law schools vs other reputation mechanisms and a range of other evaluation practices and their intended and unintended effects. Analysing research evaluation practices across more than ten jurisdictions and multiple contexts, this insightful book reveals how evaluation practices differ across Europe. Through this analysis, the book exposes a range of possibilities for further debate and study.

Engaging and topical, Evaluating Academic Legal Research in Europe will be valuable reading for legal academics, university and faculty managers, higher-education policy-makers and administrators as well as editors of law journals, legal publishers and research foundation and funding bodies.

Preface

Introduction

Rob van Gestel and Andreas Lienhard

1. Evaluation of academic legal publications in the United Kingdom

Daithi MacSithigh

2. Evaluation of academic legal publications in The Netherlands

Rob van Gestel and Marnix Snel

3. Evaluation of academic legal publications in Germany

Kai Purnhagen and Niels Petersen

4. Evaluation of academic legal publications in Austria

Elisabeth Maier

5. Evaluation of academic legal publications in Switzerland