SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND
SCHOOL OF LAW
The Southern New England Roundtable Symposium Law Journal publishes articles and student-written comments in a symposium format. Pieces are accepted from any author for consideration as an article, and comment submissions are accepted from current members of SNESL as well as from students at other law schools. The journal is available in both electronic and hardcopy formats. Access to articles is through our website at www.snesl.edu. .
Submitting an Article
We are accepting submissions for the 2010 issue on "Trends and Issues in Terrorism and the Law" and the 2011 issue on "Trends and Issues in Education and the Law".
The Roundtable Symposium Law Journal will give preference to articles under 25,000 words in length--the equivalent of 50 law review pages--including text and footnotes. We will not publish articles exceeding 35,000 words--the equivalent of 70-75 law review pages--except in extraordinary circumstances.
We accept both electronic and hardcopy submissions. Electronic submissions must be in MS Word. Hardcopy submissions must be accompanied by electronic disc containing the manuscript in MS Word. Please mail your submission to:
Articles Dept.
S. New Eng. Roundtable Symp. L.J.
Southern New England School of Law
333 Faunce Corner Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747
OR
E-Mail to: Amy Kamon at roundtable@snesl.edu
Submissions should be:
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In hard copy or e-mail submission
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Type-written in single space format
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On 8 1/2 x 11 white paper
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In footnote format, not endnotes
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Bound with a paperclip or binder clip ( not stapled or in a folder )
Additionally, they should include the following:
Submissions will not be returned.
The Review Process
The Articles Department makes every attempt to review an article within eight weeks of its receipt.
Expedited Review:
We generally require ten days to complete an expedited review. Please notify the Articles Department by phone or email of your request for an expedited review as soon as possible. In your request, please include the following information:
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Author & co-author's first and last names.
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Title of the Article.
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Author's deadline.
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Author's e-mail address and/or phone number (if leaving a home phone number, please indicate that and how late you can be reached).
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Name of the competing journal.
As soon as the Articles Department receives your request for expedited review, we will let you know whether we are able to accommodate your deadline. If you do not receive verification within 48 hours, the Articles Department probably has not received the request.
The author should expect to hear from the Articles Department no later than the day prior to the deadline for the expedited review. If the author has not heard from the Articles Department by the morning of the deadline date, please contact the Articles Department by phone at 508-998-9600, ext 104 . If additional time is needed for the review, the Articles Department will notify the author in advance to make arrangements. If the deadline changes, please contact the Articles Department as soon as possible by phone or email.
Withdrawing Your Submission:
The author should notify the Articles Department as soon as possible if they are withdrawing an article. The Articles Department appreciates knowing which journal is publishing the article.
Offer of Publication
If your article is accepted the Editor will contact you by phone and/or e-mail with an offer of publication. Once you accept the Roundtable Symposium Journal’s offer, we expect you to withdraw your article from all other law reviews.
Upon acceptance of our offer, an acceptance package including an instruction letter, two licensing agreements for your signature and a request to forward an electronic copy of your article (preferably in Microsoft Word format) to the Editor-in-Chief.
We subscribe to “Open Access Archiving” which allows authors to make the published work freely available on the public internet, permitting users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these articles.