For Authors

The NYU Law Review Online accepts and encourages submissions that are concise, timely, and accessible to readers outside of legal academia. The Online team seeks pieces by students, practitioners, nontraditional academics and established legal scholars alike, and aims to publish them more quickly than print Articles. We publish in three formats: Online Features, Case Comments, and Forum entries.

Submit to New York University Law Review Online on Scholastica or via email to nyulrevonline@gmail.com. For email submissions, please submit anonymized manuscripts (word docx or pdf).

Online Features

The Law Review Online publishes Features similar in format to print Articles but shorter, more concise, and accessible to readers outside of legal academia. Our hope is for Online Features to develop substantial ideas that touch upon our current moment. To that end, we consider submissions between 10,000 and 15,000 words, inclusive of footnotes.

Although Online Features will not be printed, they are made available on HeinOnline, Westlaw, and Lexis.

Case Comments

Case comments are typically between 5,000-10,000 words. These are pieces which analyze recent court decisions with an eye for their future impact.

Forum

The Law Review Online also publishes Forum entries of up to 5,000 words. Forum content has a more colloquial style than traditional print scholarship, and the journal encourages submissions with unique voices. Submissions should present a novel idea or perspective on a topical issue of law. Examples of pieces we publish include op-ed styled critiques of legal doctrines, quick responses to other pieces of scholarship, and briefly worded approaches to legal issues that you feel are rising in importance.

While we ensure our publications are accurately substantiated, Forum posts are published without footnotes. Instead, our editors embed hyperlinks in the text. Authors are welcome to include either footnotes or hyperlinks in their submissions.