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Below is a call for papers and description of a weeklong project on business and human rights. If you are interested, please contact one of the organizers below. I plan to participate and may also be able to answer some questions.

Lat Crit Study Space Project in Guatemala

Corporations, the State, and the Rule of Law

We are excited to invite you to participate in an exciting Study Space Project in Guatemala. Study Space, a LatCrit, Inc. initiative, is a series of intensive workshops, held at diverse locations around the world. This 2015 Study Space project involves a 7 working day field visit to Guatemala between Saturday June 27 (arrival date) and Saturday July 4, 2015 (departure date).  We are reaching out to you because we believe that your interests, scholarship, and service record align well with the proposed focus of our trip.

This call for papers proposes a trip to Guatemala to study more closely the phenomena of failed nations viewed from the perspective of the relationship of the state of Guatemala with corporations. With the recent surge of Central American unaccompanied minors and children fleeing with their mothers, the United States has had to confront the human face…

My co-blogger Anne Tucker inspired me with her useful conference list this week, and led me to create a list of my own.

Just in time for law review submission season, below are links to the submission webpages for the top-15 “Corporations and Association” specialty law journals as ranked by Washington & Lee University. The starred journals were not included in the “Corporations and Associations” dropdown ranking, but I found them in the full list and placed them in their respective spots (according to the overall rankings). I am not sure Yale Journal on Regulation belongs in this grouping, but I will leave it in since W&L includes it. 

  1. Yale Journal on Regulation
  2. Harvard Business Law Review       
  3. The Journal of Corporation Law
  4. American Business Law Journal
  5. Delaware Journal of Corporate Law
  6. Columbia Business Law Review
  7. Berkeley Business Law Journal*
  8. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law*
  9. Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance*
  10. Virginia Law & Business Review*
  11. The Hastings Business Law Journal*
  12. The Business Lawyer
  13. Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
  14. New York University Journal of Law & Business*
  15. Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business*

For what it is worth, I am not sold…

PrawfsBlawg has posted its Submission Angsting thread, which prompted me to write this post to ask our readers (including my co-bloggers) two questions:

  1. In your opinion, what is the ideal date to submit a spring law review article?
  2. When deciding between offers, how do you evaluate specialty law reviews?

Ideal Submission Date. When I first started as a professor, I heard that March 1 was the date most people thought was the best for spring submissions. The ideal date seems to be moving earlier and earlier, and I have heard February 1 or February 15 mentioned with increasing frequency. Some might suggest not worrying about the submission date — just submit when your article when it is ready. While I agree that you should wait to submit an article until it is ready (whenever “ready” is…), I have had colleagues who seemed to seriously under-place articles because they submitted at a poor time. Admittedly, most of these professors submitted well outside of the traditional windows.

Evaluating Specialty Law Reviews. The question about how to evaluate specialty law reviews reoccurs every time I submit an article. The conventional wisdom is – find out how your P&T committee values those journals and…