I am passing along the following communication from the Vanderbilt Law Review:
It is the policy of the VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW to maintain approximately forty percent (five to seven articles) of our book space available for the fall 2008 submissions cycle. We recognize that an impression exists among many legal scholars that student-run journals intend to fill our books during this spring’s submission cycle. We wish to dispel that impression.
We will review fall submissions this year as thoroughly as we review spring submissions, just as we have always. This spring’s accelerated submissions cycle has strained scholars and affects us as well. We hope that restating our longstanding policy to review and accept a significant number of pieces in the fall can help return some balance to the submissions process.
We will continue to review pieces this spring and we will not arbitrarily reject a publishable piece solely because it is our practice to maintain fall submission space. But, we encourage authors still working on pieces to hold, polish, and improve those pieces that will be ready in the fall but are not ready for a spring submission.
We look forward to reviewing your work whenever we see it.