Comments on: It’s February 27. Do you know where your Articles Committee is?

By: Arizona Criminal Attorney

Arizona Criminal Attorney — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:35:21 +0000

Arizona Criminal Attorney

Attorney General John Ashcroft should abolish the Executive Office forSecuring the Arizona desert was a piece of…

By: UCLA

UCLA — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:32:02 +0000

Actually, you need to go to http://www.xoxohth.com, click through to the “Law” message board and then click on “expert mode” to see the really bad racist stuff. Brian Leiter exposed this a year ago:

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/03/penn_law_studen.html

The sad thing is that it seems Anthony Ciolli’s racist message board is just becoming more popular with law students and law school applicants over time. It seems he and his website are on the cutting-edge of the re-mainstreaming of overt racism in the legal profession.

By: editor

editor — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:14:15 +0000

Anthony,

Perhaps the reason that some journals are taking so long to get back to you is that they are considering whether they want to be associated with you since you run a racist/anti-Semitic/sexist and generally abusive message board that is an embarrassment to the profession.

HTH

PS for those who don’t know about Anthony’s message board, check out http://www.xoxohth.com. Just search for your favorite epithet and you’ll see what many law students know about Mr. Ciolli.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:11:03 +0000

Some more updates:

St.Mary’s Law Journal, Oklahoma City University Law Review, NYU Review of Law & Social Change, Lewis & Clark Law Review, Roger Williams Law Review, Missouri Law Review, BYU Journal of Public Law: are taking submissions and accepting/rejecting/expediting

Utah Law Review: not taking submissions until May 1

By: Dave Hoffman

Dave Hoffman — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:35:01 +0000

This notice comes from the BU Law Review website: “The new Board will be elected on Tuesday, Feb. 28, and we will begin accepting expedited review requests on Monday, Mar. 13.”

By: washerdreyer

washerdreyer — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:53:42 +0000

The person posting as Alex is presumably our outgoing Editor-in-Chief, and therefore knows of what he speaks, if you’re still trying to figure out how to classify NYU.

By: recentgrad

recentgrad — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:57:11 +0000

So is the unanimous consensus that "right away" is the sweet spot?

When I was on the Georgetown L.J.--recently, but not so recently that I can speak to the current board--I'm pretty sure we continued to review articles for some months. (In fact, I'm pretty sure we saved some slots for an explicit summer round.)

Might people be overestimating the importance of submitting now, rather than either (1) a random point in the spring, or even (2) a random point in the year, other than maybe October-February?

(I'm not sure they are--I wasn't on the articles committee and knew only Geo. L.J. anyway--but I'm worried that "March Madness" is both a bad idea and a little less necessary than folks think.)

Thoughts?

By: wahoo

wahoo — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:14:10 +0000

The University of Virginia Law Review’s board just turned over and will be pooling pieces over spring break (March 6-10).

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:51:08 +0000

Univ. of Cincinnati L. Rev. starts turnover on March 1.

By: WUSTL Articles

WUSTL Articles — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:14:22 +0000

Washington University Law Review (formerly known as the Law Quarterly) is accepting submissions currently. The March 20th date was sent out in error. Our board turns over this week. Thanks for the forum.

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:30:43 +0000

Thank you all for your comments thus far.

Unless I’ve miscounted, the current tally stands at:

18 boards that have not yet turned over (but will in the next week or next few weeks).

34 that have turned over.

(I wasn’t sure how to categorize NYU, where conflicting responses were posted, or Temple, where the response was not a clear yes or no).

If that pattern holds, I would conclude that the optimal time for law review submission is right now.

By: Cornell Law Student.

Cornell Law Student. — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:21:59 +0000

Cornell Law Review, International Law Journal, and the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy have all turned over.

By: ILP

ILP — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:11:27 +0000

The Hastings Law Journal has turned over and is reviewing submissions.

By: Temple Law Review

Temple Law Review — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:51:51 +0000

Temple Law Review just announced the new ed board yesterday; board transitions take place throughout the semester.

By: BK

BK — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:29:24 +0000

Fordham’s board elections are this week, the new board will be in place by the week of 3/6 but not up to speed for a week or two after that.

By: Wm & Mary L Rev

Wm & Mary L Rev — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:28:30 +0000

WILLIAM AND MARY LAW REVIEW is reading/accepting/rejecting.

By: keith

keith — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:08:38 +0000

Arizona State; March 1.

By: Dave Hoffman

Dave Hoffman — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:01:08 +0000

Columbia just turned over.

Michigan is on winter break until March 6. (A commentator at Volokh says that they are currently reading, but it wasn’t sourced.)

By: DK

DK — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:15:13 +0000

BU Law Review chooses a new board tonight (2/28)

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:14:01 +0000

NYU Law Review has chosen its new board and is accepting submissions.