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A Comment is a student-authored piece of academic writing that is centered around an analysis of a recent case, piece of legislation, law journal article, or law-related book. Comments are significant shorter than Notes. We encourage any students whose main subject is a critique/analysis of a case, a piece of legislation, a law journal article, or a law-related book to submit their work as Comments, rather than Notes. The review process for Comments is blind, and an author’s name is only revealed to the respective committees if the piece is accepted.
We strongly recommend all students interested in making a submission to read the brief Guide to Student Submissions.
Please observe the following guidelines concerning Comments:
- Statement of Originality: All Comments must contain a Statement of Originality (or an Abstract) detailing how the argument being advanced fits into the current literature. It should be clear from this Statement how your argument differs from those of other authors. Please include a list of other reviews on the case, legislation, article, or book, and address how yours adds to them.
- Statement of Resubmission: All resubmitted work must contain a Statement of Resubmission detailing how the paper has been improved since the prior submission. The author should include in this Statement a discussion of how she has taken into consideration any feedback provided by the Notes Committee from the prior submission; if the author felt that the feedback was not valid, she should indicate why.
- Word Limit: Comments cannot be longer than 7,500 words (the exception to this rule is Comments on books, for which 7,500 words is only a suggested limit). This word limit includes footnotes (be careful, as the default setting in Microsoft Word does not include footnotes in the word count), but do not include the table of contents, the Statement of Originality, or the Statement of Resubmission. Though 7,500 words is the maximum length that will be accepted, many successful submissions are significantly shorter than this limit.
- Because the review process is blind, all identifying information, including the author’s name and any acknowledgements, must be removed prior to submission. Further, authors should take care not to discuss their work with any members of the Notes or Book Review Committees.
- During each Note/Comment call, a student may make no more than two total submissions (including both Comments and Notes).
All questions should be addressed to the Notes Committee Ombudsperson at notescommittee[at]stanfordlawreview.org.
Please fill in the form below to submit your Comment.
Due to temporary technical difficulties, please submit all Comments using the Notes submission form located at: http://lawreview.stanford.edu/submissions/studentsubmissions/submitanote.htm.
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