New York University (NYU) Law Review

Submissions for our journal are currently closed

The New York University Law Review is closed for submissions. We will reopen in August 2026. Please contact Pavel Shirley, Senior Articles Editor, at pavelshirley@nyu.edu if you have any questions in the meantime. We thank you for your interest in publishing with us!

For Authors

Opening February 1st, 2026: General Submission Guidelines
On February 1st, 2026, New York University Law Review invites submissions of unsolicited Articles via Scholastica. We no longer accept submissions by e-mail or by postal service.

Content Requirements

  • Anonymous Review: To facilitate our anonymous review process, please ensure your name, affiliation, biographical information, and acknowledgments are not included in the document you upload to Scholastica.

  • Length: The Law Review is committed to publishing work that is concise and readable. We 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 Twentieth 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.

Expedite Requests

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. Rest assured that we have received your expedite request even if we are not able to immediately issue a response. Please be advised that all offers extended pursuant to an expedite request will remain open for one hour from time of actual notification. Expedited review provides your piece with no competitive advantage in our process.

Restrictions on Student Authors

The Law Review will not review submissions for inclusion in its Articles section 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.