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Statement
Andrew Gordon and Carter Eckert
https://apjjf.org/2021/5/Gordon-Eckert.html
February 17, 2021

Earlier this month at the request of the editor of the International Review of Law and Economics, we began to write a critical
response to the article “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War,” by Professor J. Mark Ramseyer, at that point released online
by the journal with plans for formal publication in March.

It is not our responsibility to conduct a full examination of the integrity of a paper published by a journal with which we have
no connection. That is the job of the journal and its publisher, ordinarily through the peer review process but in extraordinary
cases after the fact. This is such a case. We have written to the journal requesting they suspend publication of this piece,
conduct its own inquiry drawing on expert opinion, and pending the result, retract the article.