Journal of Free Speech Law Call For Papers: Symposium on the First Amendment and Student Speech

We'll be ready to publish articles on this subject as early as September, if you submit them by August 1.

Mahanoy School Dist. v. B.L. just came down, and it yielded more questions than it answered. Not so good for litigants and government officials, but great for scholars!

The Journal of Free Speech Law, a new peer-reviewed, faculty-edited journal, plans to quickly publish two to four articles on this case, as a symposium issue—not case notes as such, but rather articles on the broader subject (whether K-12 speech, or government as manager more broadly) in light of the new decision. And given our publication speed, these will likely be the first such articles to be published in a full-fledged law journal.

Our plan:

1. We need to see submissions by Aug. 1 (or earlier), but given the short timeline, we'll be open for rougher submissions than usual. What we want to see, to make our decision, is a clear explanation of the key novel, interesting, and useful contributions that the article would make.
2. We require exclusive submissions (via Scholastica, https://freespeechlaw.scholasticahq.com/), but we will give an answer within two weeks (our average response time so far is under a week) of Aug. 1. Thus, if we say no, there will be plenty of time to submit to other journals in the August submission cycle.
3. We plan on publishing the articles online and on Westlaw as soon as the author provides a publishable version, which could be as quickly as early September (or longer, if the author so requires).
4. Our journal also publishes in print. We expect the print edition to come out towards the end of the year, depending on the timeline for the articles; but we expect that these days the important thing is getting the article out quickly online.
5. We will set up online symposia on the drafts, so that authors can get feedback from the other authors and from other First Amendment scholars.

Our journal was just founded this year, and will publish its inaugural symposium issue (on regulation of social media platforms) this Summer; the issue we discuss here will be our second. Our robe-and-gown editorial board consists of:

Prof. Amy Adler Prof. Jane Bambauer Prof. Ashutosh Bhagwat Judge Stephanos Bibas Prof. Vincent Blasi Judge José A. Cabranes Prof. Clay Calvert Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Prof. Alan Chen Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg

Prof. Jamal Greene Prof. Heidi Kitrosser Prof. Andrew Koppelman Prof. Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. Prof. Toni Massaro Prof. Michael McConnell Prof. Helen Norton Prof. Robert Post Judge A. Raymond Randolph Judge Neomi Rao

Prof. Jennifer Rothman Judge Robert Sack Prof. Frederick Schauer Dean Rodney A. Smolla Prof. Geoffrey Stone Judge David R. Stras Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton Prof. Rebecca Tushnet Prof. Eugene Volokh Prof. James Weinstein Judge Diane Wood

If you have any questions, please e-mail [e-mail]; and please pass this along to others who are interested.

Jane Bambauer
Ashutosh Bhagwat
Eugene Volokh
Executive Editors