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 3 | April 2025 | William N. Eskridge Jr. | Article
Super-Canons
Especially since 2017, the Roberts Court has been imposing a new regime onto American public law. The new regime is paring back the authority of expert agencies to implement their delegated responsibilities, reducing the power of Congress to make long-term delegations while enhancing the power of the states and the President (and the U.S. Supreme Court itself), protecting and encouraging expression of religious values in public and commercial fora, limiting women’s rights to reproductive choice, and reducing the capacity of state and private institutions to inculcate diversity and inclusion.
Samuel L. Bray
The Purpose of the Preliminary Injunction
This Article explores a reshaping of the preliminary injunction that is occurring in the federal courts. The preliminary injunction is becoming a device for accelerating the merits decision.
Jennifer Mason McAward
Understanding Brady Violations
This largest-ever study of adjudicated violations of Brady v. Maryland provides a detailed and nuanced understanding of who suppresses material evidence in criminal cases, as well as why, how, where, and how often.
Charlotte S. Alexander
Rethinking the Litigation Boom
This Article rethinks the functions and functioning of litigation booms. Using Fair Labor Standards Act cases, the Article shows that booms are not anomalies but are instead an expected behavior in our distributed system of civil law enforcement.
Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc Publications
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An Old Law with New Tricks? The Prospects and Pitfalls of Using the Antiquities Act of 1906 to Shape Climate Policy on Federal Lands
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How Regulators Can Use AI
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Substance over Form: Chancery Court Declares That Post-Closing True-Up Mechanism Requires Independent Accountant to Act as Expert, Not Arbitrator
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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