Tis the spring law review submission season (almost, depending on your view)! This is the time of year where many members of law school faculties wrap up their law review draft articles and begin submitting them to various journals for consideration for publication. Tomorrow Tulane is having a faculty roundtable on law review publishing, at which we will exchange our ideas on when to submit, how to submit (mail, e-mail, Expresso or otherwise, rounds or otherwise), etc. In that vein, I am soliciting opinions, thoughts, and anecdotes here, regarding the submissions process. (If you are a law school faculty member reading this, please consider forwarding this link to your law review editors to see if they have any comments they would be willing to share here regarding how, why, or when they select articles.)
Some topics for discussion here on the blog (or e-mail to me your thoughts if you would prefer not to share them here) (***Note scholars are posting their responses in the “comments” below.):
1. When do you submit your winter/spring draft to law reviews for publication consideration? February? First week of March? Last week of March? Never in March?
2. Do you submit in “rounds,†whereby you submit to certain publications first to gauge their interest, and then submit to different journals beyond that? If so, how do you determine which journals should be part of your first “round†of submissions?
3. Do you pull a piece if you do not get a law review placement that you want? Or do you believe that, if you submit it, you had better be willing to take a placement that you get?
4. Do you submit your drafts in the traditional manner using the mail, do you e-mail your articles to law reviews, do you use Expresso, or do you use some other service?
5. Do you judge your colleagues or your peers based on the placement of their law review articles?
6. Has your “best†article (in your own professional view) received the “best†placement of all your law review placements? To that end, how do you explain how you scored your “best†placement?
7. What is the most important tip you would give a junior colleague on your faculty on the law review submission and placement process?
