On behalf of the Mercer Law Review, I am happy to announce that we are now accepting submissions to the Lead Articles Edition, Articles Edition, Eleventh Circuit Survey, and Georgia Survey for Volume 78. This is our 78th year of serving legal practitioners and scholars as the longest continually running law review in the state of Georgia. We look forward to carefully considering your submissions.
Lead Articles Edition:
Volume 78’s Lead Articles issue centers on the meaning, preservation, and future of the rule of law. The issue will explore how legal institutions at the federal, state, and local levels understand, apply, and sometimes depart from core rule-of-law commitments, including impartial enforcement, accountability of government actors, and judicial independence. Recent developments have highlighted tensions between upholding these commitments and external factors and pressures. As such, Lead Articles welcomes scholarship addressing these dynamics, as well as work that considers mechanisms for preserving and restoring the rule of law during periods of institutional stress. Specific topics of interest include—but are not limited to—Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Immigration, Criminal Justice and Reform.
Articles Edition:
Volume 78’s Articles issue centers on the evolving scope of First Amendment protections and the tensions that arise as expressive freedoms intersect with modern governance, social change, and political change. Submissions may engage in doctrinal, historical, or normative approaches and should contribute to an understanding of how First Amendment principles are being preserved, adapted, or constrained in the changing legal environment. Submissions that shed light on the future trajectory of First Amendment rights are encouraged.
Eleventh Circuit Survey:
The Eleventh Circuit Survey invites submissions of scholarship addressing recent developments in federal law. For the upcoming volume, the Survey will place particular emphasis on business-related developments in the following areas: Corporate Bankruptcy, Securities, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Data Privacy and Security, Healthcare, White Collar Crime, and Tax law. This list is not exhaustive, and we encourage submissions on other emerging topics that are likely to influence federal law.
Georgia Survey:
The Annual Survey of Georgia Law is Georgia’s leading forum for conservative and libertarian legal scholarship. The Annual Survey prides itself on publishing Georgia-specific articles that seek to further orginalist and textualist principles. These principles align with the Supreme Court of Georgia’s interpretative methodology, which seeks to determine the original public meaning of constitutional provisions and statutes at the time of their adoption or ratification. Submissions should aim to critically engage with recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Georgia, as well as Georgia’s Constitution and statutory law. By emphasizing a textualist and historical approach to interpretation, the Annual Survey of Georgia seeks to promote rigorous scholarship that aids in restoring Georgia law to its original understanding.
All submissions should be submitted in Word format. The Mercer Law Review does not accept student submissions. Submissions will be accepted until August 1, 2026. Final drafts will be due September 1, 2026. We anticipate that accepted submissions will be published throughout the 2026-2027 academic calendar. Please submit an abstract, article, and CV or resume either through Scholastica or to our Editor in Chief, Caine Bagley, at Caine.Carter.Bagley@live.mercer.edu.
For questions or additional information please contact:
- Caine Bagley, Editor in Chief: Caine.Carter.Bagley@live.mercer.edu
- Carter Pannell, Lead Articles Editor: Carter.E.Pannell@live.mercer.edu
- Rebekah Rooks, Articles Editor: Rebekah.Faith.Rooks@live.mercer.edu
- Brock Gumbel, Eleventh Circuit Editor: Brock.Gumbel@live.mercer.edu
- Noah Ring, Georgia Survey Editor: Noah.Ring@live.mercer.edu
Sincerely,
Mercer Law Review
Volume 78