The Addendum is an online companion to the Texas Tech Law Review. This website will be a forum for articles more concise than those published in the Law Review. New articles will be posted regularly. Please check back for updates.

We are currently accepting submissions for the Addendum. To submit an article, or to inquire about our plans for the Addendum, please email our Technology Editor, Jessica Hurtado.

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What is an online companion?

An online companion is a supplement to a written journal—a means to publish shorter, more timely articles on the Internet. Consider it a legal newspaper of sorts, though only published periodically and not daily. It is a growing trend among leading legal journals and the next step in modern legal scholarship.

Online companions combine several elements of popular academic and professional media: (1) the timeliness of a newspaper; (2) the intellect of a legal journal; (3) the convenience of an online forum; (4) the interaction of a legal blog; and (5) the exposure of the modern Internet. They respond not only to the increased use of the Internet among legal scholars but also to the need for brief essays on pressing legal issues before commentary on those issues is moot.

Our Online Companion

Our Vision

The Texas Tech Law Review’s Addendum (TTLR Addendum) will strive to provide timely legal commentary on Texas, Fifth Circuit, and federal issues that are useful to practitioners and interesting to legal scholars.

Content

The TTLR Addendum intends to take a unique approach by primarily focusing on Texas issues. Because one of the goals of the TTLR Addendum is to produce timely commentary, we will not be bound by the traditional notions of law review articles regarding length and citation. Though we will retain our current policies on plagiarism, grammar, and professional style, our focus will be to engage the legal community on current and pressing matters. As such, we do not anticipate the content to be thirty or forty pages in length with citation for nearly every sentence. Ideally, articles will be no more than ten single-spaced, 12-point font pages with limited citation, though exactly how much citation is necessary will of course depend on the nature of the work.

We will consider publishing various types of work on the TTLR Addendum. This includes essays, book reviews, comments on recent Texas Tech Law Review publications, and notes on recent cases, among others. We will not have a quota of articles for each semester, but our objective is to publish as many relevant and high-quality articles as possible.

The TTLR Addendum will be accessible through the Law Review home page, but it will be a separate entity from that main site.

Authors

Initially we intend to solicit articles for the TTLR Addendum from Texas Tech School of Law faculty and possibly from members of the Law Review Board of Editors. In time, we will also solicit articles from authors with whom the Law Review has worked in the past and with whom the Law Review maintains a good rapport.

Unlike our print journal, we eventually hope to encourage submissions from other law students, regardless of whether they are affiliated with a journal. We will also target the traditional types of authors that we have always published in our print journal—practitioners, law professors, etc.

Editing

The articles for the online companion will go through the same steps of the print journal’s current editing process. This process, however, will take place on a smaller scale with a shortened turnaround—roughly four-to-five weeks from acceptance of the article to publication online.