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The Journal has been blessed to have two great stewards, Professors Joe Kelly and Nelson Rose, for its first 20 years of publication. Thanks to you, Joe and Nelson, for your professionalism and hard work in bringing the Journal to this point.
I've warned Mary Ann not to expect 20 years from me but I plan to work hard to make this a lively and pertinent forum. However, it's your insight, involvement, and innovation that are required to make that happen.
I'm especially happy to be working closely with my long-time colleague, Dawn Wagner, who is serving as managing editor of the publication. Together with her and the dedicated Editorial Board that GLRE has assembled, we'll be working to make this publication even stronger.
It's our plan to make GLRE more global in scope, broader in the types of content offered, more interactive, inclusive of the regulatory community, and even more relevant to the gaming industry than it has been in the past.
We plan to feature a wide range of content formats including but not limited to:
• Academic submissions—Traditional peer-reviewed law journal articles • Roundtable discussions—A mix of voices on a particular topic that offer a range of perspectives • Point/counterpoint debates—One-on-one debates between two people with differing views on an issue • Recent case decisions in your jurisdiction (along with your brief analysis of their pertinence to our readership) • Opinion pieces—Standard op-ed articles on issues about which you feel strongly • Letters to the editor—Thoughts or responses about contributions to the Journal
We also want to initiate some new features such as the “Best of the Web” where you submit resource sites, blogs, and other favorite websites that you're reliant on and let others know why you find them pertinent. This is a useful tool that's been successful in some of the other professional journals which Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishes, so we wanted to add that feature to the mix in GLRE.
The industry has grown dramatically in the past 20 years, both in geographic scope as well as the type of products in which operators, suppliers, and regulators must be fluent. Keeping up with this information is critical and should be the basis of all the content that we provide.
There's one thing that I've learned about the gaming industry in the 22 years I've been in it: change is constant. There are new jurisdictions coming online all of the time and new products are finding their way into the ecosystem. Who would have thought 20 years ago that betting on people playing World of Warcraft would be a discussion we'd be having?
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I look forward to hearing from you with ideas for content for the Journal as well as offers to serve as a peer reviewer in your jurisdiction or in a specialty area of the law that you have developed. We're looking for the best of the best to help foster this publication as a forum for discussion and debate. Putting new ideas forward for legal, regulatory, or economic issues in the industry is critical to the continuous improvement of this vibrant industry. We invite you to become a part of it.