When I wrote about the things I'd accomplished in law school, I left an important item off the list: get published. It had been a major goal, and it's now safe to say that goal has been met. My note was just published in the latest issue of my journal.
Writing my note was arduous and painful, and the editing process nearly killed me, but the hard work and massive investment of time has now paid off, and with the experience of having done it no future paper will ever need to hurt as much...
I also want to add to the list another law school accomplishment, which was to drive a change in my journal's copyright policy. Historically the journal had kept the copyright in the articles it published. But a few years ago, esteemed law professor Lawrence Lessig declared he would no longer publish in any journal with such a policy. He led the way for an Open Access movement, a new policy of licensing that journals could follow to be much friendlier to authors. Journals - like mine, now - that follow this policy allow their authors to keep their copyrights in exchange for a semi-exclusive license to publish them.
As a result, I am free to post my paper here, and will do so in a subsequent post. (It may also end up on SSRN, where it will be searchable by other academics, once SSRN fixes their recurrent paper-uploading bug...)
Finally, I wish to again express my gratitude for the input of those friends and colleagues who assisted me as I was working through my argument. Were it not for them the paper would not be as good as it is. Of course, any failings that may remain are my fault alone.