We have decided to take a one-week hiatus from posting this week, which coincides with the first week of our Spring Break. However, we would like to take this opportunity to make you, our loyal readers, aware of a few changes underway here at the Colloquy.
First, update your bookmarks! We recently established a permanent, in-house domain for the main Colloquy site at http://colloquy.law.northwestern.edu. The previous domain will continue to work, but all links will now refer to the Northwestern Law domain. The format for the persistent URLs assigned to each piece will remain as before: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/colloquy/YYYY/SS (where "YYYY" and "SS" are the year and sequence number of the piece, respectively).
Second, the suggested citation for the Colloquy has been altered to more closely resemble that of the print review. A more traditional format is more intuitive for our scholastic readership and helps us remain consistent with the Law Review's established history. The new format for citations includes a volume number, matching that of the print journal, and all pieces will now be consecutively paginated throughout the "volume." For instance, the piece we posted last December by D.H. Kaye now begins on page 62 instead of 1. We will be updating all of our previously posted pieces to reflect this change, including footnotes that reference other Colloquy material. This process should be completed within the next few weeks.
With these changes, the new citation format for a Colloquy piece will be:
D.H. Kaye, Science Fiction and Shed DNA, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 62 (2006), http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/colloquy/2006/7/.
Colloquy Essays are the same except that, for those Essays also published in the physical Law Review, they now have a parallel citation. Thus, a Colloquy Essay is now cited as follows:
Andrew Koppelman & Donald Rebstock, On Affirmative Action and "Truly Individualized Consideration", 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007), 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 49 (2006), http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/colloquy/2006/6/.
As part of this update process, we will also be converting all previously published Colloquy Essays to html (instead of pdf only). There will be a number of smaller cosmetic changes as well, such as adding visible page breaks to the html versions of the pieces. Our FAQ has been (and will continue to be) updated accordingly.
Lastly, look for a special series beginning next week on the ideological shifts of Supreme Court Justices. The series will include pieces by Profs. Lee Epstein, Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn and Jeffrey A. Segal in which they statistically analyze the shifts that Justices have displayed over the course of their careers. Additionally, Linda Greenhouse, the Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, will contribute a reflective piece with illustrative anecdotes.
As always, thank you for reading, and we'll see you next week!
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