The new ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy is out, following an early draft presentation at the ACL 2026 business meeting and input from many members of our community. The policy is now approved by the exec The central idea is: reviewing capacity must grow with submission volume. Key points: (1/n)
ACL sustainable reviewing policy is live! aclrollingreview.org/sustainable-... This was an incredible amount of work by incredible people in & outside of peer review committee. As any policy, it has compromises and will leave some unhappy. But it'll help to not repeat the disaster of EMNLP'26.