The Seton Hall
Circuit Review was founded in 2004 on the recognition that
thousands of cases are appealed to the federal courts of appeals all
over the nation, but only a handful are ever reviewed by the Supreme
Court of the United States. This deferral leaves the reins of
judicial power in the hands of circuit judges. For practitioners in
a given circuit, the court of appeals provides the only binding law
and, until the Supreme Court speaks, a practitioner’s respective
court of appeals is the supreme arbiter of the law for that circuit.
It is on this premise that the Seton Hall Circuit Review aims
to publish scholarly articles analyzing recent important
developments in all areas of the law at the federal appellate
level. Traditional articles on circuit
splits are an ideal fit with this journal, but we also welcome
articles of varying length that give careful treatment to a single
court of appeals decision in any circuit, whether or not that
decision creates a split in court of appeals jurisprudence. We look
forward to articles that discuss how a recent decision affects the
law and its adherents.
The Seton Hall Circuit Review
also aims to publish short and long scholarly articles analyzing
important recent developments in all areas of the law at the court
of appeals level. In addition, because of the recognized dearth of
law review-type articles of relevance to practitioners, we encourage
authors to try and bridge that gap between theory and practice while
still providing sufficient scholarly analysis to remove the article
from the realm of traditional practitioner journals.
To increase the exposure of our
authors’ work, it is a commitment of the Seton Hall Circuit
Review to send a copy of all published volumes to every judge in
the federal courts of appeals.
