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hlr-placement-strategy
Use when planning where and when to submit a law-review article and how to leverage offers — the distinctive Scholastica multi-submit, expedite mechanics, and the February-March / August seasons, with the Harvard Law Review (HLR) as a top target. Plans placement and timing; it does not run the final upload preflight (hlr-submission).
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# Placement Strategy (hlr-placement-strategy)
US law-review placement is unlike peer review. Authors submit a **near-final** article to **many journals
at once** through **Scholastica** (some also use ExpressO), then use an **offer from one journal to
expedite** review at higher-ranked journals. Timing is everything: there are two seasons, and slots fill
fast. This skill plans the submission set, the expedite ladder, and the calendar — with HLR as a reach
target that does not skip its review stages for expedites.
## When to trigger
- Deciding which journals to submit to, and in what wave
- You hold an offer and must decide whether and how to expedite
- Timing the submission to a season
- Setting the order: submit broadly, or start narrow and widen?