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 limis and preferences for the top 35 most-cited U.S. law reviews. From Emory Law Library. 

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

LexisNexis Directory of Law Reviews
Contact and other information for law reviews and scholarly legal periodicals. Last updated 2006.

Legal Scholarship Blog
Frequently updated blog with calls for papers, conferences and workshops. Coverage is primarily U.S.-oriented. 

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 of the top 100 journals. FSU has an an institutional account, so use your FSU email when you create your account. Instructions for getting started are available here. 

LexOpus
A free electronic article submission service for over 500+ law journals. Originally created by Washington & Lee, now hosted by YIJUN Institute of International Law.

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

SSRN
Online respository 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
Short article 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).