SSRN has established an eSubmission process, allowing authors to submit their working papers to law reviews and other participating journals. This service is free to authors at institutions for which SSRN hosts a research paper series. During the initial startup phase, eSubmission is free to all authors.
The eSubmission service is available at hq.ssrn.com. To use eSubmission authors first need to submit an abstract and paper to the SSRN eLibrary. Then clicking on "eSubmissions" on the left menu of the SSRN User HeadQuarters page, authors choose the paper to submit. Requests can be made to submit to one or more participating law journals. SSRN will send an email containing the abstract, contact information, a note to the journal (if the author added one), and a PDF file containing the paper to each selected journal.
SSRN is directly competing with law.bepress.com/express which submits to 400+ legal journals. Also the most-cited legal periodicals list at law.wlu.edu/library/research/lawrevs/mostcited.asp can be used to simultaneously submit by e-mail to approx. 500 journals, and individually to another 200.
Resumption of Publication: the International Journal of Cultural Property which was published until v11(2002) by Oxford University Press has resumed publication with vol. 12 being published by Cambridge University Press.
John Doyle, Ranking Legal Periodicals and Some Other Numeric Uses of the Westlaw and Lexis Periodical Databases, 23(3/4) Legal Ref. Services Q. 1 (2004). Statistical information on law reviews as gleaned from Westlaw and Lexis periodical databases, and discussion of law review ranking. Word version available at http://law.wlu.edu/library/research/lawrevs/LRSQ.
Richard A. Posner, Against the Law Reviews: Welcome to the World Where Inexperienced Editors Make Articles About the Wrong Topics Worse, 2004 (Dec) Legal Aff. 57.[find] Critique of student editors and their inexperience, particularly when dealing with interdisciplinary, non-doctrinal, writing.
Recent changes to periodicals list:
Added, (these are not new journals) Australian International Law Journal (Australia), Journal of Law and Medicine (Australia), New Zealand Armed Forces Law Review (2001- ) (New Zealand), Restitution Law Review (United Kingdom).
Added, Loyola Law and Technology Annual (v4(2003/4)- ). Was previously Loyola Intellectual Property & High Technology Journal (v3(2000/1)) and Loyola Intellectual Property & High Technology Law Quarterly (v1(1996/7)-v3(1998))
Changed name from, Michigan State University-DCL Journal of International Law (v8#2/3(1999)-v11(2002)) to, Michigan State Journal of International Law (v12(2003)- )
Added, African Journal of Legal Studies (2004- )[online] (Canada)
Note that Georgetown Law Journal's Annual Review of Criminal Procedure is no longer part of the Georgetown Law Journal. It has a separate ISSN number and is purchased separately. Nevertheless will continue to aggregate citations into Geo. L.J. and will not include a separate entry for Geo. L.J. Ann. Rev. Crim. Proc.
Removed, International Legal Perspectives (Lewis & Clark Law School). Ceased publication.
Removed, East European Constitutional Review (Univ. of Chicago). Ceased publication.
Changed name from, The Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law (1997-2004(v8#2)) to, Lewis & Clark Law Review (v9#1(2004)- )