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August 21, 2007
Law Review Article Submissions Resources (Fall 2007)
The fall law review submission window opens in mid-to-late August, so I thought I'd reprise an earlier post with some useful resources for submitting articles.
Article Submission Length Restrictions
Emory Law School's Library has a very useful chart of article length restrictions at the top 35 law reviews.
The general consensus is that many top law reviews have an article length limit of 35,000 words and a preference for no more than 25,000 words. Virginia Law Review has the strictest policy, with a limit (not just a preference) of under 25,000 words. All the rest have either no upper limit or a 35,000 to 40,000 word limit. As for preferences, the range is between 25,000 to 35,000 words, with most at 25,000.
Law Review Contact Information
1. Emory Law School's Library maintains contact information, including email addresses, for the top 25 law reviews.
2. JURIST has links to countless law review websites.
3. LexisNexis Directory of Law Reviews
Law Review Rankings
Washington & Lee's Law Library has a comprehensive ranking of law reviews based on citation counts.
Electronic Submissions
1. ExpressO provides for electronic submission to over 550 law reviews. However, a number of the top 25 law reviews still require either paper submissions or electronic submissions via their own website. For those law reviews not allowing an ExpressO electronic submission, ExpressO will print out the article and send it to these journals in hard copy. It costs extra for these submissions.
Chart of Law Review Submission Policies and Webpages
After the break is a chart of the submission policies and submission pages for several top law reviews.
| LAW REVIEW | EXPRESSO | ONLINE SUBMISSION PAGE | WORD LENGTH |
| California | Hard Copy | No | 35,000 or less |
| Chicago | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | None |
| Columbia | Hard Copy | Yes | 32,000 or less preferred; not more than 37,000 |
| Cornell | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | 30,000 or less preferred |
| Duke | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | 35,000 or less |
| Fordham | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | None |
| Georgetown | Electronic (No Preference) | Yes | 35,000 or less |
| George Washington | Electronic | No | None |
| Harvard | Hard Copy | Yes | 25,000 or less preferred; not more than 35,000 |
| Illinois | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | None |
| Indiana | Electronic | No | None |
| Iowa | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | None |
| Michigan | Hard Copy | Yes | 25,000 or less strongly preferred |
| Minnesota | Electronic | No | None |
| NYU | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | 35,000 or less preferred |
| North Carolina | Electronic | No | 25,000 or less preferred; not more than 40,000 |
| Northwestern | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | 35,000 or less |
| Notre Dame | Electronic | No | None |
| University of Pennsylvania | Hard Copy (prefers its own site) | Yes | 35,000 or less |
| Southern California | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | None |
| Stanford | Electronic (prefers its own site) | Yes | 30,000 or less |
| Texas | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | None |
| UCLA | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | 35,000 or less |
| Vanderbilt | Hard Copy | No | None |
| Virginia | Electronic | No | 25,000 or less strongly preferred; not more than 30,000 |
| William & Mary | Hard Copy | No | None |
| Wisconsin | Electronic (Expresso Preferred) | No | 37,000 or less |
| Yale | Electronic (prefers its own site) | Yes | 30,000 or less preferred; 35,000+ strongly discouraged |
Posted by Daniel J. Solove at August 21, 2007 08:30 PM
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Comments
A bit of a bleg here: would law review editors let us know when they start reviewing submissions? I've had a few write to me and say they won't begin reviewing until Aug. 28.
Posted by: Frank at August 21, 2007 09:58 PM
My sense is that all but one or two of the top twenty journals are currently reviewing submissions. (NW Law Review, for e.g., is starting 9-1.)
Posted by: Dave Hoffman at August 21, 2007 10:19 PM
This is a very useful post, thanks. Some of the information in the chart is already out of date because law reviews frequently change their policies. For example, Michigan Law Review now strongly prefers electronic submissions via its own system. And the California Law Review is soon to launch its own electronic submission system, requiring online submission.
Posted by: Rick Hasen at August 22, 2007 12:13 AM
The Georgetown Law Journal is reading articles now, but is not accepting any articles before our first full committee meeting on August 28.
Posted by: Hanah Volokh at August 22, 2007 08:24 AM
