Help with Seminar Papers & Law Review Notes

Selected resources from the Student Affairs Office.

Guide from the University of Washington Law Library.

Open access research platform used to share early-stage research, evolve ideas, measure results, and connect scholars around the world. Membership is free and students can post works there.

Features law-related Calls for Papers, Conferences, and Workshops and contains a section dedicated to empirical legal research.

Compilation of submission policies of flagship law reviews from Allen K. Rostron and Nancy Levit. Includes methods for submitting an article, any special formatting requirements, how to contact them to request an expedited review, and how to contact them to withdraw an article from consideration.Updated annually.

Presents a chart of the policies of several law reviews with respect to whether they will publish comments submitted by non-law review members who are students at their home school or notes, comments or articles submitted by law students from other schools. By Nancy Levit et al. Updated more recently than SSRN indicates.

A data-driven look at the legal scholarship cycle. Annually updated.

Information about submitting articles to specialty (non-flagship) law journals at ABA-accredited law schools in the United States, including links to the journal's page, the accepted methods for submitting an article, special formatting or length requirements, whether the journal accepts outside student submissions, and whether the journal offers any non-traditional publishing options. It covers over 450 law journals. By Michael Goodyear.

Information on how to submit works to the top 50 U.S. based student edited specialty law journals, based on the most recent Washington & Lee journal rankings. By Raizel Liebler.

Information about the top 40 specialty journals in intellectual property and technology, based on the most recent Washington & Lee journal rankings. By Raizel Liebler.

Information about twenty-nine (29) U.S.-based law reviews and journals classified under the subject “Gender, Women and Sexuality” by the Washington & Lee Law Journal Rankings (here) and five (5) additional journals that contain the word “gender” in their title, but that are not listed in the Washington & Lee Law Journal Rankings. By Bridget J. Crawford.

Includes word-count limitations, subject matter specifications, preferred submission methods and other information of possible interest to authors. By Bridget J. Crawford.

Resource to locate law journals by subject, country or publication, or ranking (where available), to display journal editorial information, and to facilitate an author's article submission to those journals. From 2005 onward. From Washington & Lee Law Library.

A global ranking of academic legal publications.

From Bradley A. Areheart, University of Tennessee College of Law. Kept updated.

Ranking of top flagship law reviews at US law schools. From Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon). Updated annually since 2018.

From Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon).

From Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon).