Law Review Rejection Rates
posted by Daniel Solove
Over at the Conglomerate, Gordon Smith asks:
Quite apart from whether such a belief justifies the inference of quality, is it actually true that higher-ranked law reviews have higher rejection rates?
As far as I know, no one has gathered statistics on rejection rates. ExpressO ranks the Top 100 law reviews in terms of submissions through its service, but these rankings are somewhat skewed by the fact that several top law reviews do not accept ExpressO submissions. They also don’t tell us how many articles were accepted at any of the law reviews.
Perhaps former law review editors can help shine some light on this question. If you have recent experience as a law review editor, please provide the following information in the comments: (1) the number of unsolicited submissions received by your law review during the editorial year, and (2) the number of offers made by your law review to authors of unsolicited submissions, and (3) the number of unsolicited submissions actually published. Obviously, this is informal, but I suspect that even a few responses would be quite enlightening.
Please answer Gordon’s question in the comments to his post.
March 22, 2007 at 1:22 am
Posted in: Law School (Law Reviews)
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Former Editor - March 22, 2007 at 12:12 pm
I was an editor with one of the law reviews ranked in the top ten of ExpressO’s list. We received approximately 1800 unsolicited submissions, and made offers on 44 different articles. We published a total of 18 of those articles (most of the remaining authors rejected us for higher-ranked law reviews).
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