Vanderbilt Law Review
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.
Delaware’s Agency Problem
This Article proposes reforms drawn from Delaware’s Administrative Procedures Act. They include public notice and comment, a published legislative record, and opportunities for meaningful input from affected stakeholders. These measures will enhance transparency and accountability while preserving Delaware’s key strengths—its expertise, responsiveness, and leadership in corporate law. If implemented, the reforms will help mitigate Delaware’s existing second-order agency problem and offer a model of open and transparent corporate lawmaking, reaffirming Delaware’s role as a national leader in corporate governance.
Discriminatory Bankruptcy Trusts
This Article proposes several ways that the bankruptcy system can improve the trust process to ensure equitable payments for victims by correcting for what are now discriminatory bankruptcy trusts.
Popular Accountability and State Constitutional Law
This Article proposes a general framework for disentangling state jurisprudence from inapposite federal assumptions and illustrates the framework in cases addressing state constitutional rights, structure, and remedies.
Home Is Where the Hearsay Is
This Note lastly advises various stakeholders about how to use the Zestimate in court to serve the judicial need for efficiency and indigent litigants’ need for a cheap method of valuing real property in an adversarial setting.
Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc Publications
Submissions
The Vanderbilt Law Review will resume collecting submissions around early February 2027.
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.
Inquiries and Information
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