Vanderbilt Law Review

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.

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Section Contents
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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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