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Authors Sue Journal
In August three faculty coauthors of a scholarly article brought suit against the University of Denver, owner of the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, which published the article in 1998. The journal editors announced in a subsequent issue that they were retracting the article because of deficiencies in it. They also asked two online legal research services, Westlaw and Lexis, to remove it from their databases. The article advocates legal reform of the "abusive practices" of transnational corporations.
In their suit, the authors contend that the journal withdrew the article because of pressure from one of the corporations discussed in it, that the journal did not question the scholarship in the article prior to that pressure’s being exerted, that the journal did not notify the authors that their article was to be withdrawn, and that the journal did not respond to the authors’ repeated questioning about the specific basis for the article’s withdrawal. The authors maintain that the withdrawal damaged their scholarly reputations.
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