Circuit splits, which occur when two or more circuit courts issue conflicting rulings on the same legal issue or point of law, are popular potential topics for law journal notes/comments. Jurisdictional conflicts provide great opportunities for authors to provide legal analysis and commentary. 

To easily identify recent circuit splits, visit U.S. Law Week: Circuit Splits on Bloomberg Law. U.S. Law Week summarizes selected splits among U.S. federal courts of appeal each month. 

Other strategies to find circuit splits include: 

• Conducting a keyword search on Westlaw or Lexis for something like (court OR circuit) /s split and then refining your results by date to recent years. 
• Browsing American Law Reports annotations, which contain a summary and analysis of the law for a specific issue along with a Table of Jurisdictions to find cases addressing that issue across jurisdictions. 

See the Writing for Journal Research Guide for additional tips and resources: