Improve student-edited law journals: Eliminate the acceptance period

What is it about?

This opinion piece provides a critical overview of submission policies at student-edited law journals and compares them to policies at literary reviews. The piece suggests that law journals can learn from literary reviews, which generally expect immediate acceptance of offers to publish. The elimination of acceptance periods would arguably improve the submission process by reducing simultaneous submissions, optimizing the matching of journals and manuscripts, and diminishing the reliance of editors on author credentials.

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Why is it important?

Student-edited law journals have been criticized for decades, yet little reform has been implemented. This piece suggests a reform that would be easy to implement and would not require editors and authors to take on tasks for which they are unqualified or unwilling.