Submissions

The UCLA Law Review publishes articles and student-written comments.  Pieces are accepted from any non-student author for consideration as an article, while comment submissions are accepted only from current members of the UCLA School of Law. 

Why Publish With the UCLA Law Review?

• Our editorial process enables authors to publish pieces of the highest quality. Each article goes through multiple rounds of substantive and formatting edits. This process is designed to provide authors a comprehensive review of all aspects of their manuscript; however, authors always retain the ability to make final decisions about their work.
• Our members are highly qualified and highly committed. Both staff members and editors are selected on the basis of an anonymous performance-based test, their proven dedication, and their commitment to the excellence of the Law Review.
• The Law Review consistently meets its production deadlines. This means that articles concerning timely issues remain timely.
• The Law Review has access to the Law School’s Empirical Research Group. The ERG is available to review an author’s empirical work should the author express interest in this service.
• The Law Review is committed to selecting cutting-edge scholarship from a wide range of legal fields. Thus, each article we publish will be surrounded by other articles at the forefront of their respective disciplines.

Submitting a Comment

The Comments Department has accepted submissions for Issues 1 and 2 of Volume 56, which will be published in October and December 2008.  The next call for submissions will be in July 2008 for Issue 3 of Volume 56, which will be published in February 2009. 

If you are a student at the UCLA Law School, please click here for more information on submitting a comment for publication.

Submitting an Article

The Articles Department is now accepting submissions for Volume 56.

The UCLA Law Review will give preference to articles under 25,000 words in length--the equivalent of 50 law review pages--including text and footnotes. We will not publish articles exceeding 35,000 words--the equivalent of 70-75 law review pages--except in extraordinary circumstances.

We prefer submissions via ExpressO. Please note that if you are submitting via ExpressO, we do not send a separate acknowledgement of receipt; the only acknowledgement that your manuscript has been received will come from ExpressO. If you must submit a hard copy, please mail your submission to:

Articles Dept.
UCLA Law Review
UCLA School of Law
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476

Submissions should be:

• In hard copy (no email submissions, please);
• Type-written;
• On 8 1/2" x 11" white paper;
• In footnote format, not endnotes; and
• Bound with a paperclip or binder clip (not stapled or in a folder).

Additionally, they should include the following:

• A table of contents; and
• A cover letter with the author's name, address, telephone number, and email address.

We do not accept email submissions.

Submissions will not be returned.

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The Review Process

The Articles Department makes every attempt to review an article within eight weeks of its receipt. During peak slating seasons (March/April, August), however, the review of an article may take significantly longer.

Expedited Review:
We generally require ten days to complete an expedited review. Please notify the Articles Department by phone at (310) 206-8630 or by email at LRSubmit@lawnet.ucla.edu of your request for an expedited review as soon as possible.  In your request, please include the following information:

• Author & co-author's first and last names.
• Title of the Article.
• Author's deadline.
• Author's e-mail address and/or phone number (if leaving a home phone number, please indicate that and how late you can be reached).
• Name of the competing journal.

As soon as the Articles Department receives your request for expedited review, we will let you know whether we are able to accommodate your deadline. If you do not receive verification within 48 hours, the Articles Department probably has not received the request.

The author should expect to hear from the Articles Department no later than the day prior to the deadline for the expedited review. If the author has not heard from the Articles Department by the morning of the deadline date, please contact the Articles Department by phone at (310) 206-8630. If additional time is needed for the review, the Articles Department will notify the author in advance to make arrangements. If the deadline changes, please contact the Articles Department as soon as possible by phone or email.

Withdrawing Your Submission:
The author should notify the Articles Department as soon as possible if he/she is withdrawing an article. The Articles Department appreciates knowing which journal is publishing the article.Top

Offer of Publication

The Chief Articles Editor will contact you by phone and/or email with an offer of publication. Once you accept the UCLA Law Review's offer, we expect you to withdraw your article from all other law reviews.

Upon acceptance of our offer, an acceptance package including an instruction letter, two licensing agreements for your signature, and a request to forward an electronic copy of your article (preferably in Microsoft Word format) to the Editor-in-Chief.

Authors receive twenty-five free reprints of their article with the price of additional reprints varying based on the length of the article.

For further information on our copyright agreement, please see the Copyright page.