Clarifications for those of us who have made careers out of stretching the rules:
1. Due date is August 1st, 2008, 8 pm, Eastern Standard Time. So if you are in California, that means your paper is due when it is 8 pm in New York, that same day. So West Costers, that means five in the evening. Five minutes late does not count. It must be before 8 pm, EST.
2. Aim for citation completeness. Decent footnotes and relatively decent bluebooking are necessary. No massive swaths of footnotes 1-35 left blank, with vague indices of "Appleman 23" or "that Villazor Berkeley article." Even if you don't have a research assistant, the citation should be a) useful b) discernible, and c) able to indicate who wrote the article, its title, and the source.
3. Minimum sections: Introduction and Part One.
Seven weeks to a newer and completed Article:
The Aug 1 st due date affords three weeks for research and writing, two weeks for your colleagues to comments, and then another two weeks for the author to revise the paper in time for a Sept 1 submission date. Formalistic? Yes? Realistic? Double Yes. Productive? Triple yes. Seven weeks is a perfect gestation period for a placeable article.
Participants:
We invite faculty to submit their names and project titles for inclusion in the National Draft Day Challenge. If on Aug 1st, by 8 pm EST, participants provide to BlogMasters proof of your completion, participant's name will be listed on a Draft Day Honor Roll, with a link the pertinent SSRN/BePress page.
Without proof of completion by Aug 1, 8 pm EST, shame to family.
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