“When you have complete control over your writing, as you do with SSRN, you can present it in a way that you most strongly believe is right. That makes a huge difference. What SSRN allows you to do is speak in your own voice in a way that a lot of other publishing doesn’t allow you to do.”

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Corliss Lamont Professor of Law and Civil Liberties at Columbia University.

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