Submissions for our journal are currently closed.
This journal is temporarily not accepting submissions as the next Volume is full; please direct any questions or concerns, including inquiries for previous Volumes, to jetl@vanderbilt.edu. Thank you for your interest in publishing with the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law!
Please follow the link immediately below to visit our Scholastica page. The Scholastica page contains the most up-to-date information about submission windows.
How to Submit
The Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law welcomes submissions in all areas of entertainment and technology law, but especially in the areas of Sports, Television/Movies, Music, and the Internet. We encourage submissions from both academic and professional authors.
All submissions or inquiries regarding the submission of an article should be sent to the attention of the Senior Articles Editor. Although it is preferred that submissions be sent via e-mail as a Word attachment, submissions can also be mailed to the contact below.
Email to submit | 615-322-5600
Attn: Senior Articles Editor
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law
Vanderbilt Law School
131 21st Ave. South
Nashville, TN 37203-1181
Length of Submission
JETLaw prefers to publish articles that are 12,000-18,000 words in length (excluding citations). The stated word counts are heavily preferred, even if not required. For submissions that exceed these guidelines, length will be a factor that may weigh against extending an offer to publish.
Formatting of Submission
We prefer submissions in the format of a Microsoft Word document. Please use footnotes rather than endnotes. All footnotes should conform to the current edition of The Bluebook.
Vanderbilt JETLaw edits pieces for compliance with the following sources: the Chicago Manual of Style (grammar and style), the Bluebook (citations), Webster’s Third Unabridged Dictionary (hyphenation and spelling), and the Vanderbilt JETLaw Style Guide (available upon request).
Submission Guidelines
The Vanderbilt JETLaw values theoretical and empirical contributions to the legal literature. We also value transparency and reproducibility in these articles. For articles that have mathematical proofs, please include these proofs in an appendix to the article. For empirical articles, any procedures, methodology, or robustness checks not included in the body of the article must be included in an appendix to the article. Please have the dataset ready to be sent upon request.
Expedited Review
Upon receiving an offer of publication from another law review, you may request an expedited review of your article. If you have submitted your article via Scholastica, we strongly prefer that you request expedited review through Scholastica. If you have submitted your article via email or mail, you may request expedited review by sending an email to jetl@vanderbilt.edu. The email must include the author’s name, the title of the submission, the law review that has made the offer, and the deadline (date and time) that the offeror has given for the reply. Please do not send an email if you have already submitted the expedite via Scholastica.
Please note that we will try our best to finish our review before the expedite deadline. However, we are not always able to do so.
Withdrawal
Please let us know if you have decided to withdraw your piece from submission. If you have submitted your article via Scholastica, we strongly prefer that you withdraw the submission through Scholastica. If you have submitted your article via email or mail, you may withdraw the piece by sending an email to jetl@vanderbilt.edu. The email must include the author’s name and the title of the submission.
Conflicts of Interest
All conflicts of interest must be disclosed in the author’s biographical footnote. This includes any personal or professional financial interests (including research grants) that may be relevant to the subject of the piece. Also, authors must disclose involvement in any litigation relevant to the submission or any non-trivial involvement with for- or not-for-profit associations with a material interest in the article.