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We welcome anything law-related, intelligent, well-written, and short (no more than 5,000 words and 50 footnotes). If you have something good, please email it to us.

Who we are

• Ross E. Davies, editor-in-chief

• David M. Gossett, executive editor

• Gregory F. Jacob, senior editor

• Susan M. Davies, contributing editor

• Curtis E. Gannon, contributing editor

• Anna Ivey, contributing editor

• Thomas B. Nachbar, contributing editor

Advisers

• Robert C. Berring

• A. Morgan Cloud

• Richard A. Epstein

• Samuel Estreicher

• Leonard Garment

• Suzanne Garment

• Bryan A. Garner

• Mary Ann Glendon

• R.H. Helmholz

• Philip B. Heymann

• Dennis J. Hutchinson

• Montgomery N. Kosma

• Henry P. Monaghan

• James M. Rosenbaum

• Suzanna Sherry

• Kate Stith

• William W. Van Alstyne

What we sell

Our main product is the Green Bag, a quarterly journal of short, readable, useful, and sometimes entertaining legal scholarship. To start or renew a subscription, please click here.

What we give away

Some of our products are not for sale. Instead, we give away: (1) books and the like from the Green Bag Press, which are free for the asking to almost anyone who gives us a satisfactorily completed copy of this form, and (2) works of scholarly artistry, which are free but not for the asking (because we distribute them arbitrarily and capriciously).

The Green Bag Press

• Books by respected members of the bar (e.g., David Sentelle's Judge Dave & the Rainbow People and Bennett Boskey's Some Joys of Lawyering).

• Periodicals by experts and our editors (e.g., the Journal of Law, Cynthia Rapp's In-Chambers Opinions of the Justices, and the Green Bag Almanac & Reader).

• Odds and ends we cannot resist (e.g., Brainerd Currie's Quidsome Balm).

• Pdfs of some GBP products are here.

Works of scholarly artistry

We distribute these items willy-nilly, with no promises to anyone about what we might make, when we might make it, or who might get it.

• Bobbleheads of the Justices: With Alexander Global Promotions, we portray sitting members of the Court and Justices of yore.

• Thought Bubble Gum: Pink rectangles of wisdom and wonder, for now available only as fridge magnets.

• Supreme Court Sluggers cards: A portrait of an important figure in the law on one side, loads of tiny-type data on the other.

almanac cover 2012

Almanac & Reader 2012: The first few pages of the 2012 edition of our Almanac of Useful and Entertaining Tidbits for Lawyers & Reader of Exemplary Legal Writing from the Year Just Passed are here. Some lucky souls will receive the complete ink-on-paper Almanac in a few weeks.

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The Green Bag, Autumn 2011: The Autumn issue (vol. 15, no. 1) is at the printer, with fine writing by David Bernstein, Bryan Garner, Todd Peppers, Douglas Woodlock, Leiv Blad, Bob Rains, Avern Cohn, and Stephen McAllister. You can read them all here, now.

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The Journal of Law, v.1, n.2: This issue of our incubator features two new journals – Chapter One (Bob Berring, ed.) and The Post (edited by Anna Ivey, Howard Bashman, Adam Bonin, Bridget Crawford, Thom Lambert, David Schleicher, and Tung Yin).

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The Green Bag, Summer 2011: The Summer issue (vol. 14, no. 4) is here, with fine writing by Erwin Chemerinsky, Charles G. Kels, Stephen R. McAllister, John V. Orth, J.W. Verret, Scott J. Silverman, Robert A. James, Ira Brad Matetsky, and Daniel H. Borinsky.

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Slugging Originals: Hall of Famer Rick Ferrell (aka Antonin Scalia) with Connie Mack (aka George Washington), John McGraw (aka James Madison), and Spalding's Base Ball Player (aka Alexander Hamilton). Statistics by Benjamin A. Gianforti, Adam Aft, and Craig D. Rust; art by John Alston Sargent III.

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1 TBG 5 & 6: New pieces of Thought Bubble Gum are coming soon, with players named above.

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Justice Clarence Thomas: His bobblehead, with annotations and accesories, is here (featuring, among other cases, Freightliner Corp. v. Myrick, McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, and United States v. Fordice). Certificates are in the mail.

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The Green Bag, Spring 2011: The Spring issue (vol. 14, no. 3) is here, with fine writing by Robert C. Berring, Larry E. Ribstein, Jacob A. Stein, G. Edward White, William Baude, Bennett Boskey, Evan Henley, Jack Meltzer, Conor Moore, and Bob Rains.

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Two new Sluggers: On the new Goldberg-Miller tandem card, what do the images in the Arthur Goldberg portrait symbolize? How many and varied are the connections between Marvin Miller and the Supreme Court? The answers to these questions and others about our just-released Supreme Court Sluggers card are coming soon.

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