Nomos law reviews welcome submissions by practitioners and legal scholars related to the area of law of each such online periodical. Each submission should include the curriculum vitae(s) from the author(s) and an abstract of the article submitted not greater than 150 words in length. Submissions that (1) conform to the 19th edition of The Bluebook and (2) are under 30,000 words in length, including text and footnotes, are preferred.
Author(s) may submit a pre-drafted, previously unpublished article through the submission form of the LawSpree website. Alternatively, author(s) may submit (a) pre-drafted, previously unpublished articles or (b) singly or collaboratively draft articles within the applicable Law Review author dashboard. Author(s) need only be registered with the specific website and may do so by following the register link on the site on which they desire to publish. Author(s) can log-in and save the article on which he, she, or they are working. Once an article is drafted and ready for review, it may be submitted as easily as clicking the submit button located in the author dashboard.
The Law Review editor then assigns one or more reviewers to the article. Reviewers sign in, read the article, and enter comments and publishing recommendations. Reviewers have a separate, private comment area as well one not visible to the author(s). Optionally, site administrators can enable a form of open-process review in which review comments (and the identity of each reviewer) is visible to the author(s).
After the reviewer enters any relevant comments, he or she makes a recommendation: Approve, Reject, or Request Revisions. When all the reviews are submitted (or whatever portion is sufficient according to the editorial policy of the publication) the editor makes a final ruling on the article, which can be either Approve, Reject, or Request Revisions.
After an article is approved, it is ready for final copy-editing and publishing. Once approved, the article is ready for final copy-editing and publishing by a site admin; if revisions are requested the article returns to a draft status for further editing by the author(s). And if the article is rejected it is removed from the publication queue. In all cases notification is sent to the authors and editors of the final decision. The publication staff (admins) make whatever final tweaks are required, such as adding or adjusting image files, and publishes the articles live on the public-facing web site.