Hi everybody,

I am wondering if anyone has any tips on how to go about getting a paper published. I have previously published one, though it was a joint effort. I have run into a bit of a wall (though I've only been going at this for a couple of days), as many ask for a CV etc and do not appear interested in publishing papers by students (as an LLM grad, I would've thought this not to be a problem)

Should I be specifying that I am willing to consider publishing as a note/comment? I find the U.S. law review system a bit confusing...

Thanks.

definitely don't get discouraged after a couple days. I worked on article selection for a law review and it took us at least weeks, usually months, to review the articles. We got about 800 submissions for maybe 20 slots, and we're not a top journal, just a regional law school (albeit with a very old law review). Anyway, in general we did look at qualifications (prior publications, whether the author was a professor), but we didn't exclude anything based on that; it was just weighed. We did require a CV, though, so attach one even if it's not as long or impressive as someone who's been writing for years. If your article is good it should find a home somewhere, but it will likely take awhile. Are you using the electronic submission services? I think one is called ExpressO or something like that. That way you can submit to many law reviews at once.

Best of luck! Post again if I can try to answer any other questions.

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it. I've decided to upload my CV to ExpressO.

Do you have any advice regarding the quality of the journals? My previous article was published in a well-known international journal. I notice many established professors publish in journals in lower-tier schools. Is this looked down upon? In the U.S., should is it considered a positive to publish an article, even in the journal of a lower-ranked school.

Thanks again.

I'm a student and not a professor, so I can't really say exactly how much weight where one publishes is given. I do think that something published is better than nothing.

I do think that what a lot of authors do is send out a bunch of submissions to their top choices, wait to see if they get any acceptances, then go to the next best batch, etc. Also, it is not like some other systems where you can only send it to one journal at a time; we made offers on several that the authors decided to publish elsewhere.

Also take note that with student editors, this is the time of year that something could fall through the cracks, or at least sit in an email inbox for a good while. At our school, the new editorial board is elected in January, and we didn't start reviewing articles until pretty well into the spring semester. The bulk of our article selection process was over the summer. I can't say how uniform the timelines are at different law reviews, though.

Cool, thanks for the advice...nice to have an insider's view into this.

edited.