My colleague at FSU, Robin Kundis Craig, has compiled some helpful information regarding submissions to law reviews for this cycle, which I thought I’d share. I realize it’s a bit past the opening of the window for the cycle but I suspect there are some people for whom it might still be useful. If there are any corrections, please post comments, but not anonymously. Thanks.
Additionally, if you are the editor of a law review not mentioned below that did not previously accept Expresso submissions, then please feel free to identify the law review if your journal now does accept submissions via Expresso.
The following law reviews prefer direct submissions through their own web sites:
Yale Law Journal: http://author.yalelawjournal
The following law reviews PREFER submissions through ExpressO: Cornell Law Review (NEW PREFERENCE) Duke Law Journal (NEW PREFERENCE) Iowa Law Review New York University Law Review North Carolina Law Review (NEW PREFERENCE) Northwestern University Law Review UCLA Law Review University of Chicago Law Review (or e-mail to [email protected]) (NEW PREFERENCE) University of Illinois Law Review (NEW PREFERENCE) Update: Georgetown Law Journal (but will also accept submissions uploaded through its website or via hard copy) Wisconsin Law Review
The following law reviews PREFER e-mail submissions: George Washington Law Review: [email protected] Indiana Law Journal (Bloomington): [email protected] Minnesota Law Review: [email protected] Rutgers Law Review: [email protected] Virginia Law Review: [email protected]
The following law reviews PREFER or REQUIRE hard copies: California Law Review (but see note below) Colorado Law Review Ohio State Law Journal Southern California Law Review (but see note below) Texas Law Review Vanderbilt Law Review William & Mary Law Review
N.B. The California Law Review and the Southern California Law Review are giving contradictory advice, depending on where you check. However, both now state on their submission pages that they PREFER ExpressO submissions. The California Law Review will re-open to ExpressO submissions on Tuesday.
Posted by Administrators on September 2, 2007 at 03:38 PM
Comments
Hanah, thanks, I’ve updated the information. Thad, I’m not sure what to make of the various discrepancies, but I suppose I would do belts and suspenders at any law review where I was uncertain about the relevant information for submission.
Posted by: Dan Markel | Sep 4, 2007 10:25:01 AM
PLEASE NOTE: The information about Georgetown Law Journal above is inaccurate. We prefer submissions through ExpressO, but we also accept submissions through our own website and in hard copy. We do not accept submissions by e-mail.
Posted by: Hanah Volokh | Sep 4, 2007 8:01:00 AM
Which of these journals does not accept submissions for JD students for their articles section?
Posted by: Mosser | Sep 3, 2007 8:14:05 PM
I am grateful and appreciative that you and your colleague are willing to share “helpful information” regarding submissions. I referred to a few similar posts (here and on related blawgs) during the spring submission cycle. What I discovered is that the advice in the posts often contradicts the advice on the law reviews’ own pages (or on ExPressO’s page). While I realize many law reviews are very bad about keeping their sites up-to-date, I ended up complying with the first-person advice on the law review sites rather than the advice in the blawg posts.
After just a quick glance at this post, I can see a number of things that contradict representations made by these law reviews themselves. For example, GW is listed under “PREFER e-mail submissions” but is not listed under “PREFER or REQUIRE hard copies.” Yet, on the GW site, it states “We strongly recommend . . . that you also submit a hard copy of your article.” http://docs.law.gwu.edu/stdg/gwlr/submissions.htm. This implies (to me) that absence of a hard copy may hurt my chances.
I bring this up not to criticize the post. Rather, I am curious whether the information in the post is more accurate (e.g. straight from the mouth of the EIC or articles editor) than the website.
Thad Pope
Posted by: Thaddeus Pope | Sep 3, 2007 1:13:33 PM
Good question and I definitely don’t have any expertise with the so-called end of the cycle. If I recall, my experience was that we accepted pieces up through October or so, but I think various journals will be close to filling up their volumes in the next two to four weeks or so. I also don’t know if Fall gets better returns as an empirical matter. Spring means that journals typically have more slots available since it’s the beginning of the volume that they’re trying to fill. The benefit of doing fall first is that if you submit and the journals you want don’t bite, you can submit later and get a new board in the spring to look at your piece. That said, I know people who have had success placing a piece well in the fall after having sent it out earlier in the spring, with less success than they hoped for. So no magic formulae so far as I know…
Posted by: Dan Markel | Sep 3, 2007 9:53:19 AM
Here’s a question: Dan, you mention we are after the opening of the window. When is the closing of that window in the Fall? how late does it still make sense to submit? also, is there some kind of advantage of one of the seasons, the Fall or Spring submission periods, over the other? i heard once that the Fall gets better returns…
Posted by: Orly Lobel | Sep 3, 2007 1:02:54 AM