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Advice from an Indiana Law Journal Executive Articles Editor on optimizing your article submission! Professors Lederman (Indiana-Bloomington) & Choi (Minnesota) co-host this interview with Indiana Law 3L Abbi Semnisky and also share insights. Prof. Choi was Bluebooking Editor on the Yale Law Journal. Prof. Lederman was a Note & Comment editor on the NYU Law Review. Prof. Choi also shares Minnesota Law Review statistics.

The articles/resources mentioned in the video include the following:
• William Turnier, "Tax (and Lots of Other) Scholars Need Not Apply: The Changing Venue for Scholarship," 50 J. Legal Ed. 189 (2001).
• Dan Subotnik, "A Law Review Editor and Faculty Author Learn to Speak Honestly," 32 Touro L. Rev. 441 (2016).
• Kwame Anthony Appiah, Ethicist, New York Times Magazine (June 12, 2018), https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/ma... (2nd Q&A).
• Jon Choi's Bluebook-format reference manager: https://www.jonathanhchoi.com/
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• Washington & Lee Law Journal Rankings: https://managementtools4.wlu.edu/LawJ...
• U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-...

For real-time data on submissions and rejections in the Spring 2024 submission cycle, see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/....
For Scholastica's latest report on submission timing (updated Jan. 2024), see https://scholasticahq.com/law-review-...
For a 2022/early 2023 submission-timing thread, see   / law_review_submissions_spring_2022  .

CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO:
00:00 - Introduction
00:28 - Submissions Stats (Minnesota Law Review & Indiana Law Journal)
01:46 - Spring & Fall Submission Cycles
03:35 - Submitting Symposia
04:15 - Article Acceptance Rates (ILJ & Minn. L. Rev.)
05:49 - Disclaimers! (These Are Just Our Experiences)
06:08 - Importance of the Abstract
07:38 - Does Article Topic Matter?
10:07 - Faculty Review of Articles
10:44 - Article Title
12:08 - Article Citability
12:59 - Article Formatting
13:55 - Text/Footnote Ratio
14:22 - Table of Contents
14:39 - Article Length
15:46 - Does Bluebooking Matter?
16:55 - Article Completeness
18:08 - What Comprises A Submission?
18:37 - Cover Letter
19:43 - Authors' CVs
20:21 - Does "Lead Article" Placement Matter?
21:20 - The Expedite Process
22:58 - Expedite Ethics
26:55 - Expediting From A Specialty Journal
27:58 - Which Rankings Do Journals Use?
30:15 - Blind Review of Articles
31:15 - Exclusive Submission
31:52 - Concerning Contacts With Editors
34:00 - Negotiating Deadlines
35:48 - Deadline Length
37:34 - Board Review
38:32 - Issue Layout
39:22 - Concluding Message From An Executive Articles Editor
39:36 - Thank-Yous
39:50 - Minnesota Law Review Statistics

Break Into Tax thanks Jonathan Choi and Abbi Semnisky for the photos of the Minnesota Law Review and Indiana Law Journal, respectively. Break Into Tax is grateful to Nickolas Cole for outlining the images in the thumbnail.

The participants in this video are speaking only for themselves. School names are included for identification purposes only. Nothing from Break Into Tax constitutes tax or legal advice.

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