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 78, Issue 2 | March 2025 | Marie S. Celentino | Article
In Government We Trust
On its face, the Form I-213 appears to be a humble bureaucratic form unremarkable to the untrained eye. In reality, this document alone can singularly sustain the federal government’s case for the deportation of a noncitizen in removal proceedings. The Form I-213 sits at the cradle of interlocking judicial and procedural norms within immigration practice that largely diminish the due process rights of noncitizens facing deportation. This Article sheds light on two important but relatively underexamined phenomena that undergird this system: how a disregard for evidentiary rules largely eliminates the government’s burden of proof in removal proceedings and how judicial deference to government agents systemically enables this practice.
James D. Cox, Randall S. Thomas, and Lynn Bai
Shareholder Litigation in Delaware
The empirical study of shareholder litigation in state courts is a seriously underexamined subject. To remedy this gap, we collected data on all 4,741 fiduciary duty complaints filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery over a sixteen-year period.
Mark Nevitt
Destroy, Rebuild, Repeat: How to Break the Climate Disaster Cycle
Climate and disaster law is not changing with the climate. In this Article, I argue that laws designed for a different physical environment, an environment more stable than the one we currently have, harm our ability to respond to climate-induced disasters.
Mihailis E. Diamantis
Reasonable AI: A Negligence Standard
Even as AI promises to turbocharge social and economic progress, its human costs are becoming apparent. Scholars and lawmakers have proposed strict regulations and strict corporate liability. These rigid approaches go too far.
Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc Publications
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How Different Are the Trump Judges?
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Getting It Right the First Time: Making Child Sex Offender Sentencing in the Fourth Circuit More Efficient with a New Methodology for Crafting Content- Based Special Conditions of Supervised Release
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A “Profoundly Contractarian Predisposition”: Delaware Courts Decide Recent Drafting Disputes by Limiting Their Review to Four Corners of Contracts
Submissions
Submissions for our journal are currently closed. The Vanderbilt Law Review will resume collecting submissions around early August 2025.
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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