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First, please drop a note to your section editors when you pick the work you are going to review. While I don’t object to multiple reviews of the same work, it would be best if we had enough advance notice of subject collision to make sure that the reviews are substantially different from each other (as indeed were the two we published of Barton Beebe’s Intellectual Property and the Sumptuary Code).
Second, if you have a relationship, professional or personal, with the author of the work you are planning to review, please tell your section editors before you start writing. Section editors are free to have their own policy on conflicts of interest, and I gather they will vary. My own view is that disclosure in the review suffices for most professional relationships, but some sections plan to be tougher about this, and that’s their privilege.
Third, please keep in mind that Jotwell exists primarily to review the latest writing. Reviews of drafts and pre-prints at SSRN or BePress are absolutely fair game, indeed particularly welcomed. But if an article or book is more than a year or two old, it’s probably too old…unless it is going in our new “classics” section (see below).
And, I hope it goes without saying, please make an effort to get jots in on schedule, or warn us in advance if there is going to be a problem. We are pretty understanding about timing, but we do have a schedule to feed.
