Legal Theory

Overall acceptance rate

25.00%

Average response time

5.9 months

Average publicaton time

7.5 months

Average number of reviewers

1.3

Comment quality

Submissions with comments

68.75%

Overall experience with editors

Initial Verdicts

Acceptances

1 (6.25%)

Rejections

11 (68.75%)

Revise and resubmits

4 (25.00%)

Conditional acceptances

0 (0.00%)

Withdraws

0 (0.00%)

Revised/conditional verdicts

Acceptances

3 (75.00%)

Rejections

0 (0.00%)

Withdraws

1 (25.00%)

	Submitted	Verdict	Professional status	Response time	Comment quality
Jul 9, 2024	Rejection	Graduate student	1 month	-
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Jul 9, 2024 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender - Race/ethnicity - Response time 1 month Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Apr 13, 2021	Revise and resubmit Acceptance	Tenure track faculty	7 months
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Apr 13, 2021 Submitted by - Verdict Revise and resubmit Acceptance Professional status Tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 7 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 2 Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Feb 2, 2021	Rejection	Tenure track faculty	7 months
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Feb 2, 2021 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenure track faculty Gender - Race/ethnicity - Response time 7 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Dec 9, 2019	Rejection	Graduate student	0.8 months	-
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Dec 9, 2019 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 0.8 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 1 Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
May 3, 2019	Rejection	Graduate student	7.5 months
Journal Legal Theory Submitted May 3, 2019 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Female Race/ethnicity - Response time 7.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 1 Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Mar 14, 2016	Rejection	Tenure track faculty	8.5 months	-
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Mar 14, 2016 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenure track faculty Gender Female Race/ethnicity - Response time 8.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Feb 1, 2016	Rejection	Graduate student	12.5 months
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Feb 1, 2016 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Female Race/ethnicity - Response time 12.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Jul 9, 2015	Rejection	Tenure track faculty	10.5 months
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Jul 9, 2015 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 10.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
May 1, 2015	Rejection	Non-tenure track faculty	4.5 months
Journal Legal Theory Submitted May 1, 2015 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Non-tenure track faculty Gender Female Race/ethnicity - Response time 4.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Apr 2, 2015	Revise and resubmit Withdraw	Graduate student	11 months
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Apr 2, 2015 Submitted by - Verdict Revise and resubmit Withdraw Professional status Graduate student Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 11 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Jan 18, 2015	Rejection	Non-tenure track faculty	3 months	-
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Jan 18, 2015 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Non-tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 3 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Aug 20, 2014	Rejection	Tenure track faculty	2 months	-	-
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Aug 20, 2014 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 2 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors - Comments from submitter -
Oct 27, 2013	Revise and resubmit Acceptance	Tenure track faculty	6 months
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Oct 27, 2013 Submitted by - Verdict Revise and resubmit Acceptance Professional status Tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 6 months Publication time 11 months Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Oct 13, 2013	Revise and resubmit Acceptance	Non-tenure track faculty	2.5 months
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Oct 13, 2013 Submitted by - Verdict Revise and resubmit Acceptance Professional status Non-tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 2.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Aug 28, 2011	Acceptance	Non-tenure track faculty	3 months
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Aug 28, 2011 Submitted by - Verdict Acceptance Professional status Non-tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 3 months Publication time 4 months Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Jan 1, 2009 (This date is estimated due to lack of submission data)	Rejection	Graduate student	7.5 months
Journal Legal Theory Submitted Jan 1, 2009 (This date is estimated due to lack of submission data) Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 7.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -