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50 J. Legal Educ. 157 (2000)
Publish or Perish: The Paradox

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Philiv F. Postlewaite

Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published,
but perished all the same.
© The NewYorker Collection 1982 Tobey from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved.
In early 1996 I asked my dean for a research leave in which to revise my
treatises.' During that conversation we discussed my productivity for the
Philip F. Postlewalte is a professor of law at Northwestern University.
I am grateful for the help of my research assistants, Elisabeth Lemer, Thomas Noble, Helen
Shepard, Holly Travis, and particularlyAndrea Gibson andjennifer Watson, as well as the staff of
the Vanderbilt law library, especially Pauline Aranas andJanet Hirt. Further thanks to those who
labored through The Beast and gave me their unvarnished, constructive criticism: Carl Auerbach.
Shari DiamondJack Heinz, Scott KieffJeffKwall, and Fred McChesney. Obviously, errors of fact
or errors ofjudgment, should they exist, are exdusively my responsibility.
I generally used a May 30, 1998, effective date for this work, but I used other effective dates for
various purposes and have noted them accordingly.
1. I had been informed that my publisher had decided, unilaterally, to sell its outside-author
book contracts. After many tumultuous months, my contracts were purchased by other
publishers. But to effectuate a rapid transition and an early Identification of my works %ith
the new publishers, I had to undertake simultaneous revisions of three different works.

Journal of Legal Education, Volume 50, Number 2 (June 2000)

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