Overview
The Vanderbilt Law Review publishes six times a year (January, March, April, May, October, and November). We have two selection cycles (spring and fall) per year. Vanderbilt Law Review also has an online companion journal called Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc.
Volume 77, Issue 5 | October 2024 | Allison M. Whelan | Article
Dobbs and the Destabilization of Clinical Trials
This Article explores an important yet overlooked collateral consequence of the U.S. Supreme Court’s elimination of the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: the destabilization of clinical research.
Daniel J. Capra & Liesa L. Richter | Article
Painting a Clearer Picture: Introducing New Federal Rule of Evidence 107 Regulating Illustrative Aids
They say a picture is worth a thousand words—and charts, drawings, diagrams, computer animations, and even tangible items are utilized at trial in virtually every case tried in the federal and state court systems.
Richard Lorren Jolly | Article
The Constitutional Right to Peremptory Challenges in Jury Selection
This Article is the first to demonstrate that abolition of peremptory challenges is unconstitutional. Despite some contrary Supreme Court precedent, it contends that the early history, practice, and texts show that the Sixth Amendment secures to criminal defendants, particularly in capital cases, the right to participate in jury selection through peremptory challenges.
Kiersten Wood | Note
Losing Lives Despite “Lifesaving” Exceptions: Examining the Fatal Flaws of Vague Abortion Bans and the Spectrum of Medical Decisionmaking in Cancer Care
This Note reviews the downstream effects of Dobbs on pregnant cancer patients seeking abortions while simultaneously pursuing oncological treatment plans.
Submissions
Submissions for our journal are currently closed.
The Vanderbilt Law Review will resume collecting submissions around early August 2024. The Vanderbilt Law Review publishes six times a year (January, March, April, May, October, and November). We have two selection cycles (spring and fall) per year. During a selection cycle, we accept submissions on a rolling basis. We do not accept submissions solely authored by law school students.
The Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc is the online companion journal to the Vanderbilt Law Review, designed to advance scholarly discussion and to make legal scholarship more accessible to a larger audience. En Banc accepts and publishes various forms of scholarship, including the following:
- Roundtables to host debates among legal academics and practitioners, usually on topical issues or notable cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court;
- Responses to articles originally published either in the Vanderbilt Law Review or with Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc;
- Essays written by scholars, practitioners, judges, or students on contemporary legal issues;
- Notes and Comments written by Vanderbilt Law Review members on various legal issues; and
- Book Reviews written by professors, with a focus on reviewing books authored by a Vanderbilt Law School faculty member.
- We also encourage submissions of writings that do not fit into the above categories, so long as they include a strong legal hook.
En Banc publishes on a more flexible schedule than the print version, and so may review and accept submissions at any time, though publication typically occurs during the academic year.
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