Arizona State Law Journal Forum Submission Guidelines
Essay submissions are now open.
The Arizona State Law Journal Forum accepts concise, timely essays authored by practitioners, non-legal academics, J.D. Candidates, and legal scholars. Forum uses conversational style and is often more accessible than traditional print scholarship. Forum accepts essay submissions through Scholastica. Additional information about Scholastica is available at www.scholasticahq.com/law_reviews. If you have any questions, please contact our Forum Editor at slstumpf@asu.edu.
Content. Forum strongly prefer pieces that respond to or meaningfully rely on our main Journal articles. However, Forum considers all essays as long as the subject is timely. This includes emerging legal issues, interactions between legal doctrines and current events, and Arizona-specific topics.
Length. Forum hopes to publish concise, timely pieces that are accessible to those outside of traditional legal academia. More specifically, it seeks contributions that engage with current legal issues in a practical and broadly digestible manner. Therefore, Forum strongly prefers submissions between 3,000 and 6,000 words, including footnotes.
Citations. Citations must conform to the twenty-second edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. Failure to conform to The Bluebook weighs significantly against accepting the manuscript.
Anonymization. Forum kindly requests that authors facilitate our anonymous review process by removing personal identifying information, including names, acknowledgment footnotes, and author introductions, before submitting the manuscript.
Authors. Forum is proud to accept submissions from a range of authors, including current J.D. Candidates, nontraditional academics, legal practitioners, and legal scholars.
Review process. Forum considers each manuscript through an extensive review process that may take several weeks. Essays follow the same production process and style standards as our print pieces, and Forum evaluates submissions on a rolling basis.
If accepted, an essay undergoes multiple rounds of editing, source-checking, and review by the Forum Editor and a team of Editors and Staff Writers. The author then receives proposed edits and may accept, reject, or discuss any suggested changes. Then, after another round of review, the Forum Editor returns the essay to the author with any additional changes. Once the author approves the final version, the Editor-in-Chief proofs the essay a final time.
While Forum does not typically offer expedited reviews, authors may notify us via email about the status of their submission.
Light Touch Policy. Like its traditional print counterpart, Forum is committed to a “light touch policy” to preserve the author’s original voice, argument, and structure. Each essay undergoes multiple rounds of review, during which authors will have the opportunity to review and comment on any proposed changes. The review process focuses primarily on grammatical and Bluebook accuracy, and any substantive edits will be presented as suggestions for the author to accept or decline.
Artificial Intelligence. Authors must disclose all substantive generative artificial intelligence output that appears in the text of their essay.