Rejected in a hurry

Who says that the law review article consideration process is slow? Brian Leiter writes about how Ohio State law professor Christopher Fairman’s article was rejected by the Kansas Law Review in only 25 minutes. Apparently, all it took for the editors was to read the one word title, previously referred to as the “Principal Obscene Word of the English Language”. (via concurringopinions.com)

From the article:

Oh fuck. Let’s just get this out of the way. You’ll find no f-word, f*ck, f—k, @$!% or other sanitized version used here. This is quite a change from Professor Allen Walker Read’s 1934 scholarly treatment of the word, An Obscenity Symbol—fifteen pages and eighty-two footnotes penned without once printing the word fuck anywhere in the article. I won’t even cleanse my title as Dr. Leo Stone did with his landmark piece, On the Principal Obscene Word of the English Language. And why should I? This isn’t the first time you’ve seen the word and, if you keep reading, it certainly won’t be the last. Bitte beachten Sie: Dieser Artikel ist nicht mehr im Original verfügbar.