Posted by Orin Kerr:
Law Review Article Length -- Real Changes?:
A few months ago, a bunch of the top law reviews announced a change in
their submission policies that introduced a preference for shorter
articles. There was lots of commentary about the new policies both
here and elsewhere. Now that the spring law review season is winding
down, I'm wondering if the new policies made any difference. Did
authors submit shorter pieces? Did the editors actually prefer shorter
pieces, or did the change in policy exist only on paper?
We'll get an idea of the answer in a year or two, when the new
articles come out and readers can see whether they are on average
shorter than the articles in recent years. We'll also know in a year
or two whether journals beyond the initial group adopted the same or
similar preferences. In the meantime, I thought it might be helpful to
get a jump on that by asking for reader feedback. If you either
submitted an article to a law journal this spring or were an editor at
a law journal, please consider posting a comment below.
Authors, please begin your comment with "AUTHOR:", and then say
whether you shortened your submission in response to the new policies.
Editors, please begin your comment with "EDITOR:", and then fill us in
on whether editors at your journal were attentive to article length
and whether you think your journal preferred shorter-than-average
pieces. (Also, please include whether your journal was one of the
journals that signed on to the change in submission policies.)
Thanks to everyone for participating. The results are obviously
going to be impressionistic at best, but I think it's better than
nothing.
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