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1 J. Free Speech L. 1 (2021-2022)

handle is hein.journals/jfspl1 and id is 1 raw text is: ROBE AND GOWN: WHY FACULTY- AND JUDGE-EDITED? Eugene Volokh I. WHAT Do WE Do? Welcome to the Journal of Free Speech Law, a new peer-reviewed journal. We aim to publish excellent, novel, readable, and useful scholarship on the freedoms of speech, press, assembly, petition, expression, expressive association, and thought. (We leave pure religious freedom and church-state matters to others, such as the Journal of Law & Religion, but we would gladly publish works on religious speech.) We don't limit ourselves to constitutional law (federal or state), but expect to also cover statutory, regulatory, and common-law speech protections, as well as private institutions' approaches to speech regulation. We also of course don't limit ourselves either to pro-free-speech or pro-restriction articles. And we are open to articles on foreign, international, and comparative law as well as U.S. law. II. WHY PEER-REVIEWED? Law, of course, is famous as the only discipline in which professors grade the exams and students edit the journals. This journal departs from the students edit the journals norm, for several related reasons: 1. We think evaluating the soundness, utility, and especially novelty of schol- arly work generally requires serious experience in the field. 2. We think peer reviewers can better avoid pressure to exclude controversial viewpoints or controversial authors. Of course, we are all subject to the biases and limitations of human nature, and peer-reviewed journals in many fields are often accused of being dominated by established orthodoxies. Indeed, student-edited journals may sometimes have the virtue of being more open to fresh approaches. But having an ecosystem with both highly regarded peer-reviewed journals and ' Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law (volokh@law.ucla.edu); Editor-in- Chief, Journal of Free Speech Law. 1

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