UCLA Law Review
Call for Submissions: Volume 56, Issues 1 & 2
The UCLA Law Review is seeking student submissions for publication in its October and December 2008 issues. Submissions should be original, student-written comments of general interest to the legal academic community. All UCLA School of Law students are encouraged to submit their written work.
The Comments Department will consider all student-written comments for publication, including those written for an independent study, papers for upper-division seminars, and other works not written for credit; however, the UCLA Law Review does not publish essays, book reviews, poetry, or other non-academic student-written works. There is no page limit or minimum for consideration. As a guideline, comments chosen for publication are usually between thirty and sixty double-spaced pages.
When evaluating work for publication, the Comments Department looks for timeliness, depth of analysis, clear writing style, and use of authority. We will slate for Issues 1 and 2 during this cycle. The standards of selection are high as we expect to select no more than two comments per issue, and we encourage students who have not been chosen for publication in other slating cycles to resubmit for consideration. The next Calls for Submission will take place in August 2008.
In order to gauge the types of student-written comments that are accepted for publication, we invite you to refer to past issues of the UCLA Law Review. The Law Library carries past copies on the first floor under call number K25.C55; additionally, comments appearing in the UCLA Law Review are available on Westlaw and LexisNexis, as well as through Hein Online.
In order to be eligible for publication, you must be currently enrolled at the UCLA School of Law. Your work must have been written while studying at a law school. Transfer and Visiting Students may submit works written at other law schools.
The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, April 2, 2008, at 5:00 p.m. PST.
Format
To submit for this slating period, you must submit six (6) copies of your manuscript in a manila envelope to the box inside the Law Review Office, Room 2243, on or before Wednesday, April 2, 2008, at 5:00 p.m. Your manuscript must be double-spaced (including footnotes), use 12-point Times New Roman Font for the body of the manuscript, use 10-point Times New Roman Font for the footnotes, and include 1-inch margins. You must use footnotes and follow the Bluebook Uniform System of Citation. Please note that while quality of Bluebooking will not be a factor in our decision, submissions that do not follow the formatting requirements above will not be considered.
Submissions are evaluated using a "blind" grading system. All comments should be identified using your Fall 2007 Final Exam Numbers. You must include your Fall 2007 Final Exam number on the first page of your comment. You must not include any other identifying information on your comment. Also, in your manila envelope, you must enclose a white standard business-size envelope containing a signed UCLA Law Review Declaration of Academic Integrity (“Declaration”), certifying that you have read and complied with the UCLA Law Review Plagiarism Policy (“Plagiarism Policy”). The Declaration and the Plagiarism Policy will be available in the Distribution Room beginning Thursday, March 20, 2008. It is also available here.
Notification
All authors will be notified of whether they have received publication offers by Tuesday, April 22, 2008. Those students whose comments are selected for publication must be prepared to submit electronic copies of their comments to the Law Review by Tuesday, April 29, 2008.
If you have questions regarding the submission or slating process, please contact the Law Review Chief Comments Editor, Grace Lee, at leegr2009@lawnet.ucla.edu.
We wish you luck, and we look forward to reading your submission.