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The Real Law Journal

The continuing scholarly periodical of the Society.

Articles, research notes, case notes, and book reviews on primary legal authority — published in successive issues under faculty review and the standing apparatus of the editorial committee.

§ I

The Current Issue

Volume I, Number 2.

Spring MMXXVI · Published.

Volume
Volume I
Issue
No. 2
Season
Spring MMXXVI
Status
Published
Publication Date
MMXXVI
DOI
10.00000/rlj.i.2
Issue Editors
The Editor-in-Chief · Editor-in-Chief
The Managing Editor · Managing Editor
The Citation Editor · Citation Editor

§ II

Editor's Introduction

On the present issue.

The second issue is organized around the law of trusts. Two articles treat the Uniform Trust Code at twenty-five and the standing duties of the trustee read together; a research note addresses surcharge and removal as remedies of record.

A case note on Celotex returns to civil procedure; a book review of Bogert closes the issue.

The Journal continues to favor short articles, read against the controlling instrument, with the apparatus that lets the reader verify the work.

§ III

Table of Contents

The articles of the issue.

Each article opens to its full text, with abstract, keywords, citation, and cross-references into the Academy, Library, and Press.

Articles

  1. 01

    The Uniform Trust Code at Twenty-Five

    On the adoption and revision of a uniform act.

    Faculty of the School of Trust Law

    113–146

  2. 02

    Loyalty, Prudence, Impartiality

    The standing duties of the trustee, read together.

    Faculty of the School of Trust Law

    147–172

Research Notes

  1. 01

    Surcharge and Removal: The Remedy as a Record

    Faculty of the School of Trust Law

    173–188

Case Notes

  1. 01

    The Summary Judgment Record

    A note on Celotex and the materials properly before the court.

    Faculty of the School of Civil Procedure

    189–202

Book Reviews

  1. 01

    A Review of Bogert, The Law of Trusts and Trustees

    Faculty of the School of Trust Law

    203–214

§ IV

Featured Articles

A selection from the current issue.

§ V

Research Notes

Shorter studies of working questions.

Research notes are focused inquiries into a single instrument, doctrine, or procedural posture.

§ VI

Case Notes

Decisions read against the rules they construe.

Case notes treat a single decision as a reading of a controlling instrument.

§ VII

Book Reviews

Standing works, read as continuing projects.

Book reviews treat the standing reference works of the field as projects that are kept current.

§ VIII

Editorial Board

The standing editorial committee.

The editorial board administers the Journal under the imprint of the institution.

The Editor-in-Chief, the Managing Editor, the Citation Editor, the Research Editors, and the Section Editors compose the standing committee that reviews every manuscript before it enters an issue of the Journal.

The full editorial board →

§ IX

Editorial Policies

The standing principles of the Journal.

Six policies that govern editorial review, citation verification, corrections, revisions, and ethics.

  1. I

    Scholarly Standards

    The Journal publishes work that reads primary authority as written. Articles are expected to cite the controlling instrument and to read it before reading what others have said about it.

  2. II

    Editorial Review

    Every manuscript is read by the editorial committee for accuracy, citation, and conformance to house style. The committee returns the manuscript with notes; revisions are made before publication.

  3. III

    Citation Verification

    Every citation in every published article is verified against the controlling source by the Citation Editor before the article enters the issue.

  4. IV

    Corrections

    Material errors are corrected in the next issue under a standing Corrections heading. The original text is retained; the correction is recorded.

  5. V

    Revisions

    Substantive revisions to a published article are issued as a numbered revision with a dated entry in the article's revision history. Prior versions are retained in the institutional archive.

  6. VI

    Ethics

    Authors disclose any interest material to the subject of the manuscript. The Journal accepts no instruction from outside the institution.

Policies, submission guidelines, and citation standards in full →

§ X

Citation Standards

On citing the Journal.

Articles in the Journal are cited by author, short title, volume, page, and year. A DOI accompanies each published article and is registered against the institutional record.

Author, Short Title, 1 Real Law J. 1 (MMXXV).
Preferred citation form

§ XI

Journal Archive

The successive issues of the Journal.

Each issue is retained in the archive in the form in which it was published. The catalogue grows by addition.

The full issue archive →
The Real Law JournalRead Law. Not Lore.Vol. I — No. 2

The Journal

Read the continuing scholarship of the Society.

The Journal connects the Academy, the Research Library, and the Real Law Society Press. Each article reads primary authority and returns the reader to the source.

The Editorial BoardEditorial Policies →
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