Submissions

The Washington Law Review is currently accepting submissions for its August 2010 issue.

The Law Review will devote its February 2010 issue to the distinguished career of Judge Betty Fletcher. The journal is not accepting any additional submissions for this volume. The Law Review will devote its May 2010 issue to scholarship from the Three Degrees Conference on the Law of Climate Change and Human Rights, which was held at the University of Washington School of Law in May of 2009. The journal is not accepting any additional submissions for this volume.

We invite authors to submit scholarly legal articles and essays on all topics of national interest. We ask that authors interested in publishing in the Washington Law Review take a moment to review our editing policy.

We strongly prefer electronic submissions via ExpressO.

We also accept submissions at the address below. We regret that we cannot return authors' manuscripts.

Washington Law Review
Attn: Articles Department
University of Washington
William H. Gates Hall
Box 353020
Seattle, WA 98195

To request an expedited review of a manuscript, please contact the Articles Department at submissions@washlrev.org.

 

Editing Policy

The Washington Law Review strongly prefers articles containing fewer than 40,000 words, including footnotes. The journal conforms to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th ed.), follows the grammar conventions of The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style (2nd ed.) and The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.), and follows the spelling conventions of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary and Black’s Law Dictionary (8th ed.). We publish pieces geared toward a general legal audience, which means we assume when editing that the reader does not have any special legal expertise or knowledge. Unless an editor approves an exception, we require all authors to cite for the following: factual assertions, direct quotations, statutes, and case references (immediately after the case and including a pin cite with each following reference). While we work hard to limit our editorial feedback so as not to infringe on a writer's personal style, voice, and expertise, our editors sometimes make editorial suggestions for the sake of clarity.