General Submission Guidelines
The New York University Law Review is open for submissions as of August 9, 2021.
We accept submission of unsolicited Articles via Scholastica. We no longer accept submissions by e-mail or by postal service.
We consider each manuscript we receive using an extensive review process, which can take several weeks. In the past, some authors have been faced with the pressure of having to make a decision about an offer from another journal before we are able to complete our review process. If you have received an offer of publication from another journal, please request expedited review of your submission via your author submissions account on Scholastica, and our editors will be immediately notified of your deadline. Please note, however, that because of our extensive review process, any submission that is expedited for a date less than one week from when you seek expedited review may be disadvantaged. Expedited review provides your piece with no competitive advantage in our process.
Content Requirements
Length: The Law Review is committed to publishing work that is concise and readable. We strongly encourage submissions of fewer than 25,000 words, including footnotes (roughly 50 journal pages). For submissions that exceed this limitation, length will be a factor that weighs significantly against acceptance of the manuscript.
Citations: Citations must conform to the Twenty-First Edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. Failure to conform to the The Bluebook will be a factor that weighs significantly against acceptance of the manuscript.
Abstract: Please include a short abstract with your submission.
Data: The Law Review values the contributions of empirical and experimental studies to the legal literature, and accordingly takes special care to ensure transparency and reproducibility in papers that use methodologies typically employed by the social sciences. In line with this, authors of such papers are expected to provide any datasets and experimental procedures not included in the text of the paper to the Law Review for publication on our website, unless an exception is made prior to acceptance. Authors are expected to provide the Law Review with these materials before the printing phase of our production schedule. Please note that we are able to consider the piece more quickly if the files are provided at the time of submission.
Student Authors
The Law Review encourages students to submit online features. However, it does not consider student submissions for Articles if the sole author is a current J.D. student (at New York University School of Law or elsewhere). We will consider Articles co-authored by J.D. students if one of the co-authors is not a current J.D. student.
Scholastica
Institutions can create accounts to pay for their authors’ submissions to Scholastica, so authors affiliated with law schools will have the same payment experience they have had on ExpressO. Scholastica is committed to ensuring that authors are able to submit articles regardless of institutional support and will consider requests for fee waivers and other accommodations at info@scholasticahq.com. Additional information about Scholastica is available at www.scholasticahq.com/law_reviews.
NYU Law Review Online
The NYU Law Review Online accepts and encourages submissions that are shorter, timely, and accessible to those outside of legal academia, like what you would like to read on your phone while commuting to work or class. Online seeks pieces by students and practitioners as well as established legal scholars, and aims to publish them more speedily than our Articles process.
To this end, the NYU Law Review Online will only consider features with a maximum length of 3,500 words. Online content has a more vernacular, accessible style than traditional print scholarship, and appreciates submissions with a more informal tone or unique voice. Pieces should present a novel idea or perspective on a topical issue of law. Examples of pieces we publish include analyses of recent court decisions, op-ed styled critiques of legal doctrines, quick responses to other pieces of scholarship, and briefly worded approaches to legal issues that you feel are rising in importance. Although we ensure that the pieces we publish are accurately substantiated, online features should be lightly footnoted; an appropriate range is 5 to 10 footnotes per 800 words of above-the-line text. When possible, sources should include a hyperlink.
Submit to New York University Law Review Online via email to our Senior Online Editor at lml491@nyu.edu
