1. Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2024 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews:
This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools (updated as of August 7, 2024). For a summary and more details about method, see below the table. You can also compare MetaRanking from 2018-2024, including changes in ranking over time here: MetaRank Comparison 2018-2024.
For specialty/secondary journal rankings (not yet updated for 2024), see:
The MetaRank was computed by averaging ranks (using a 25% weighting from each) of the following rankings:
prRank = US News Peer Reputation score ranking (averaged over 10 years);
usnRank = overall US News school ranking (averaged over 10 years);
wluRank = Washington & Lee Law Journal Ranking;
gRank = Google Scholar Metrics ranking (note: “1000” means journal was not indexed).
2. Nancy Levit (UMKC) & Allen Rostron (UMKC), Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals (Revised July 17, 2025):
We just updated our charts about law journal submissions, expedites, and rankings from different sources for the Fall 2025 submission season covering the 195 main journals of each law school.
From their email:
We have created hyperlinks for each law review to take you directly to the law review’s submissions page. Again the chart includes as much information as possible about what law reviews are not accepting submissions right now and what months they say they’ll resume accepting submissions. Twenty-five journals (Alabama, Arkansas, Belmont, B.U., BYU, Colorado, Dickinson, Drake, Duke, Georgetown, Houston, Illinois, Indiana—Bloomington, Iowa, Mississippi, Northwestern, Oregon, Seton Hall, Syracuse, Tennessee, Tulane, UC Davis, UC Irvine, Utah, and William & Mary) say, either on their website or Scholastica, that they will not open for submissions until early 2026 (February 1 is a popular date).
This year we have added the number of issues that each journal publishes per year.
The first chart contains information about each journal’s preferences about methods for submitting articles (e.g., e-mail or Scholastica), as well as special formatting requirements and how to request an expedited review. The second chart contains rankings information from U.S. News and World Report (overall, peer, lawyers and judges), as well as data from Washington & Lee’s law review website (citation count, impact factor, and combined ratings).
3. Bradley A. Areheart (Tennessee; Google Scholar), The Top 100 Law Reviews: A Reference Guide Based on Historical USNWR Data:
The first chart contains information about each journal’s preferences about methods for submitting articles (e.g., e-mail or Scholastica), as well as special formatting requirements and how to request an expedited review. The second chart contains rankings information from U.S. News and World Report (overall, peer, lawyers and judges), as well as data from Washington & Lee’s law review website (citation count, impact factor, and combined ratings).
4. Bridget J. Crawford (Pace; Google Scholar), Information for Submitting to Online Law Review Companions:
This document contains information about submitting essays, commentaries, reviews, responses, and other writings to online companions to the main law reviews and journals at over 60 schools. The document includes word-count limitations, subject matter specifications, preferred submission methods, whether articles from the online journal are included in HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library and other information of possible interest to authors.
5. Scholastica, Data On The Fall And Spring Law Review Article Submission Seasons:
. . . When do authors submit to law reviews?
… The graph below details, by day, when articles were submitted to law reviews during the 2024 article selection cycle (January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024). …
Expedites by due date
… Below is a graph of when authors submitted expedited decision requests via Scholastica by the due date, looking at all of 2024 (January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024).
The peak day for expedite requests in spring 2024, which was March 8th, actually exactly matches 2023. The peak day for expedite requests in fall 2024, August 30th, fell just a bit later than 2023 when the peak day was August 25th.
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