Vanderbilt Law Review

Overview

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.

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Section Contents
Volume 77, Issue 6 | November 2024 | Kevin M. Stack | Article

The Internal Law of Democracy

The conventional focus of election law is the constitutional, statutory, and judicial constraints on election officials. But the operation of elections also depends on the law that election officials themselves create. This “internal law of democracy”—produced by state and local election officials and addressed to election personnel and workers—provides on-the-ground guidance on registration, voting, and vote counting; specifies internal processes and protocols; and interprets and translates the meaning of constitutional and statutory law for use within the election bureaucracy.

Charles W. Tyler | Article

Genealogy in Constitutional Law

Genealogy is a form of argument that seeks to discredit social phenomena by exposing their pernicious ancestry. In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has used genealogy to undermine key provisions of written law, doctrinal rules, longstanding practices, and private conduct in cases involving a wide range of constitutional issues.

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Andrew T. Levin and Christina Parajon Skinner | Article

Central Bank Undersight: Assessing the Fed’s Accountability to Congress

As America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) is unique among independent agencies in exercising powers that the U.S. Constitution granted to the legislative branch—namely, regulating the value of money and borrowing funds directly from the public. In delegating these powers, Congress designed the Fed to ensure that its monetary policy decisions would be insulated from political interference.

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Andrew Keane Woods | Article

The New Social Contracts

Contracts rule our digital world. Platform terms of service determine speech rights, privacy rights, and much more. This is no accident—from the very beginning, the U.S. model of internet governance was explicitly built around private ordering. In this context, it is worth asking what contract law and contract scholarship have to say about the public harms of digital dealmaking.

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Submissions

Submissions for our journal are currently closed.

The Vanderbilt Law Review will resume collecting submissions around early August 2024. 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.

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