Executive summary: The Unjournal is considering expanding into legal scholarship evaluation, as it could have significant impact by providing expert peer review in a field where top journals lack rigorous evaluation processes, particularly for research affecting global priorities like AI safety and animal welfare.
Key points:
Legal research has direct impact on legislation, court decisions, and policy, but lacks rigorous peer review in top journals (which are student-edited).
Key uncertainty: Whether meaningful evaluation is possible given legal scholarship’s less empirical nature and different schools of thought.
Success requires recruiting legal scholars for evaluation (challenging given current norms) and building credibility with top journals.
Project needs help with: identifying relevant research, developing prioritization criteria, managing evaluators, and creating evaluation frameworks.
Actionable next step: Seeking legal experts to contribute ~4 hours in early 2025 to help develop evaluation approach (compensation available).
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Executive summary: The Unjournal is considering expanding into legal scholarship evaluation, as it could have significant impact by providing expert peer review in a field where top journals lack rigorous evaluation processes, particularly for research affecting global priorities like AI safety and animal welfare.
Key points:
Legal research has direct impact on legislation, court decisions, and policy, but lacks rigorous peer review in top journals (which are student-edited).
Key uncertainty: Whether meaningful evaluation is possible given legal scholarship’s less empirical nature and different schools of thought.
Success requires recruiting legal scholars for evaluation (challenging given current norms) and building credibility with top journals.
Project needs help with: identifying relevant research, developing prioritization criteria, managing evaluators, and creating evaluation frameworks.
Actionable next step: Seeking legal experts to contribute ~4 hours in early 2025 to help develop evaluation approach (compensation available).
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