The Yale Law Journal -- the Law School's renowned 115-year-old review -- has just launched a companion online publication, "The Pocket Part," to bring the best of the print journal's content to the World Wide Web and create an interactive forum for debate and discussion.

"The Pocket Part" features synopses of articles, written in accessible language and presented alongside responses from leading practitioners, policymakers and scholars. The name "The Pocket Part" refers to the pockets attached to the back covers of legal publications that hold updates to and commentaries on those texts.

The Yale Law Journal, produced by student editors, publishes articles, essays, book reviews and notes, and comments on a broad range of legal topics eight times a year.

"The journal was originally founded as a publication that would provide a link between practitioners and the legal academy," says law student Curtis Mahoney, editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal. "As the field of legal scholarship has matured, those links have been strained. 'The Pocket Part' is our effort to make the journal's print scholarship accessible to a broader audience."

In its first year, "The Pocket Part" will publish a synopsis of one of the articles in the print edition along with responses to the article by scholars and practitioners. It will also make discussion boards available. Next year, "The Pocket Part" will publish original content on case law, policy and scholarship.

The first article on the new site is titled "Of Property and Federalism."

"The Pocket Part" can be found at www.thepocketpart.org. It is available without subscription.

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