The Editorial Board is pleased that you are considering submitting your manuscript to Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. There are two methods by which you can submit a piece to Legal Writing:
- You may submit your piece via Scholastica.
- You may email your piece to the Editor-in-Chief directly. The Editor-in-Chief is Irene Ten Cate, irene.tencate @ brooklaw.edu.
We welcome your submissions for Volume 29. Volume 29 will be published in March 2025.
If submitting via Scholastica, please submit an anonymized file as the main Manuscript File, and attach a non-anonymized file as a supplementary file (so that we can identify the author of the piece). You will have the option of submitting demographic information (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.) when submitting a manuscript. Optional demographic data collected in the submission form will be made available only to the Editor in Chief; anonymized demographic information will be made available to members of the Editorial Board.
If submitting by email, please send two electronic versions of the article, both in Microsoft Word format, to the Editor in Chief. One version should be free of any identifying information, such as references to the author’s name or institutional affiliation. Because deleting text or footnotes may change the meaning of the piece, the author(s) can certainly substitute words such as “my school,” “the author,” etc. as appropriate.” Authors submitting by email may choose to submit demographic information (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.) along with their manuscript. As with Scholastica submissions, optional demographic data collected in the submission form will be made available only to the Editor in Chief; anonymized demographic information will be made available to members of the Editorial Board.
Members of the Editorial Board review the articles submitted to the Journal. The process is a blind review; the Editorial Board is unaware of who wrote the submission. After a report and discussion in which all editors take part, the Board votes on the submission. Articles that receive an affirmative vote from a majority of members are accepted for publication. We look forward to reviewing your submission.
When making citation and style decisions for your submission, please consult the most recent edition and printing of the ALWD Citation Manual (Wolters Kluwer), and the most recent edition of The Redbook (West).
Authors are typically notified about the Board’s decision within six weeks of submission. When an article is selected for publication, members of the Editorial Board will work with the author throughout the publication process; in addition, a team of Assistant Editors will work on the technical aspects of the piece.
Authors should be prepared to supply the editors with copies of all difficult-to-find sources, which we define as materials that cannot be located easily on Westlaw Edge, LEXIS Advance, Bloomberg Law, the Internet, or in a law library. Examples of materials that authors would need to supply include, but are not limited to, non-legal sources, email messages and other unpublished material, out-of-print material, conference and CLE material, foreign sources, survey results, and interview transcripts or summaries. To prevent link rot, authors should also be prepared to provide PermaCC Links for all URLs cited throughout the article’s text and footnotes. Please see https://perma.cc/ to create PermaCC links. Most academic institutions have a subscription to this service.