Publishing in Law Reviews and Journals: Home

Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking
This website can be used to identify and rank journals on a variety of factors. Full explanation and instruction available here.  From Washington & Lee School of Law Library.

Journal Citation Reports
Journal rankings based on citation data pulled from over 2600 journals in the social sciences. Information available by subject category, which includes law. From ISI Web of Knowledge.

Writing an Abstract for a Law Review Article
From The Volokh Conspiracy blog.

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation by Peter W. Martin
An online resource with guidance for both Bluebook and ALWD.

Academic Legal Writing by Eugene Volokh
Available in print at the library

 

Law Review Article Length Limits & Preferences
Article length limits and preferences for the top 35 most-cited U.S. law reviews. From Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. 

Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals (SSRN)
by Allen Rostron & Nancy Levit. A guide to submission methods, requirements, and contact information for 203 law reviews. Last updated January 2019.

Navigating the Law Review Article Selection Process: An Empirical Study of Those With All the Power -- Student Editors (SSRN)  
by Leah Christensen & Julie Oseid

The Law Review Article Selection Process: Results from a National Study (SSRN)  
by Jason Nance and Dylan Steinberg  

Link Directories:

• Links to the submission pages of law review websites (from UMKC)
• Annotated list of Law Journals (from Washburn)

Periodicals Indexed in CILP (HeinOnline)
Law Reviews and other legal periodicals indexed in the Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP). 

Law Review Commons Directory
Freely available journals, including contact information and articles.

Law Conferences
Conference calendar for law and law-related topics. Coverage is internationally oriented.    

ExpressO
Electronic article submission service for over 750+ law reviews, including all the top 100 journals. FSU has an institutional account, so use your FSU email to create your account. Instructions for getting started are available here. 

Scholastica
Electronic article submission service for select law reviews and scholarly journals. UChicago Law Review now accepts submissions exclusively through Scholastica. 

SSRN
Online repository of faculty scholarship 

Law Review Submission Tracker
A downloadable spreadsheet for tracking law review submissions. Available from the PrawfsBlawg blog. 

Law Periodical Publishing Practices and Trends
Annotated bibliography of articles and resources from LLRX. 

Law Review Review
Posts about law reviews and scholarship from Prawfsblawg.

Tips on Publishing
Research guide from Columbia Law School. 

Resources for Authors
Information about author's rights and the Author's Rights Initiative from The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).