Eric P. Green

Commenter A. Tsai offers an explanation of discipline differences on working papers that is worth posting in full.

I am not certain about this, but I suspect it has to do with the differing traditions of information dissemination in the two fields. In economics (I don’t know anything about law), as you hinted at [...]

There are many advantages to making your working papers available on-line. It allows you to get feedback, it creates exposure for a paper, and it allows you to take credit before the time consuming journal publishing process finally lets your paper see the light of day as an Article. Theoretically, all of this would work [...]