Legal Commentary

It occurs to me that there doesn't really seem to be a good reason for law reviews to change over their boards in late Feb/early March, as opposed to mid-January. And there's an important advantage to all the players (the students and the profs who bow down to them) if the turnover occurred earlier: namely, it lessens the freneticism of having the expedite madness bump up so intensely against both spring break and, more importantly, exams.  Here's my thinking: my sense is that the sweet spot for spring submissions is usually around March 1.  Many friends of mine who submitted four weeks ago or more, however, are still in the "game" now, just as law reviews start to think about winding down due to increased student anxiety about upcoming exams. The situation is probably substantially worse for those who submit toward the end of the window, ie, around or after March 15th.