request for papers for the
55th Annual Administrative Law Symposium
March 2025
How to Submit a Paper
Please submit your paper on Scholastica by August 1, 2024 at 11:59 PM EDT. Inquiries via Scholastica should be directed to Duke Law Journal’s Special Projects Editor, Melana Dayanim.
What to Include in Your Submission
Papers should be Word documents that include a proposed title, an abstract, and an article of between 7,500-10,000 words in length. The article should meet all of Duke Law Journal’s specified article guidelines. If your paper does not yet meet these requirements, but you are confident that it will by mid-September, you are still welcome to submit. We emphasize, however, that articles in their full form and which adhere to our guidelines will be considered more favorably in our review process.
Paper Selection Criteria
Papers must have some foundation in administrative law. The Duke Law Journal Symposium Selection Committee will review each paper proposal based on:
▪ Definition and focus of the topic
▪ Timeliness and importance of the topic
▪ Experience, expertise, and diversity of the author(s)
▪ Overall paper quality
While we expect the Symposium will be responsive to the recent and upcoming Supreme Court decisions, we also encourage submissions of unrelated administrative law articles, as we work to put together a diverse Symposium.
Travel Support
We plan to hold the symposium in person, and all authors should plan to attend in person. The Duke Law Journal will provide transportation, lodging, and meals for symposium participants.
Important Dates
July 10, 2024: Papers may be submitted
August 1, 2024: Deadline to submit paper proposals
August 15, 2024: Papers selected
Late September 2024: Draft papers due for Administrative Law Symposium Issue
Late October 2024: Author review period
Late January 2025: Author review period
Early March 2025: Author review period
March 2025: 55th Annual Administrative Law Symposium takes place
May 2025: Volume 74’s Administrative Law Symposium Issue published
Thank you and we look forward to reviewing your paper proposal!
53rd Annual Administrative Symposium
Speakers include: Professor Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School), Professor Avishalom Tor (Notre Dame Law School), Professor Jeffrey Rachlinski (Cornell Law School), Professor Stephanie Bornstein (University of Florida Levin College of Law), Professor Jed Stiglitz (Cornell Law School), Professor Gabriel Scheffler (University of Miami School of Law), Professor Daniel Walters (Texas A&M Law School), & Professor Emily Murphy (UC Hastings Law School).
About the Administrative Law Symposium
History of the Administrative Law Symposium
In 1969-70, Randolph May helped initiate an ambitious new project for the Duke Law Journal: an annual review of administrative procedure. He and other Journal members, along with a few professors and practitioners, wrote pieces on the year’s developments in administrative law.
With this issue the Journal initiates a major project designed to produce an annual commentary on each year’s major developments in the field of federal administrative law. . . . We hope by our project to report and analyze those developments which are of general significance, presenting in one volume a discussion of current controversial issues which should be of interest both to the infrequent agency practitioner and to the attorney or agency member who desires a cross-agency perspective on those issues. Because of both space and knowledge limitations, we do not propose to report every important decision, rule, and enactment; rather, we shall undertake to give detailed attention to those issues which appear to be of greatest general interest.
– Project: Federal Administrative Law Developments—1969, 1970 DUKE L.J. 67.
The Journal’s administrative law issue retained this format for several years until it switched to the symposium format common among law reviews today.