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.
This Article argues that American law treats dead bodies as quasi- persons: entities with a moral status between things and persons. The concept of quasi-personhood builds on dead bodies’ familiar classification as quasi- property.
This Article provides the first systematic account of the phenomenon of anti-transgender constitutional litigation. Anti-transgender litigation is surprisingly novel: while trans-protective measures date back much further, anti-transgender constitutional litigation was virtually nonexistent prior to 2016.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This Note examines the use of race-based hairstyles, gendered-appearance standards, & citizenship as proxies for race, sex, and national origin.
The infamous Insular Cases, where the Supreme Court held that the “alien races” that inhabited the United States’ overseas territories were not entitled to the same constitutional rights and protections afforded to Americans residing in the mainland.
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:
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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