Columbia Law Review - Essays

General Submission Guidelines

• Submit only one copy of your manuscript. We greatly prefer if submissions appear in Microsoft Word format.
• Text and citations should conform to the latest version of A Uniform System of Citation (“The Bluebook”). Footnotes are strongly preferred over endnotes.
• We encourage the use of gender-neutral language.
• We will not consider student-written Essays.

Expedited Review

We will do our best to honor all expedite requests and to provide a prompt publication decision. Please be aware of the Review’s policy concerning expedited reviews: If the Review makes an offer of publication following an expedited review, the author has one hour from the time of actual notification in which to accept the offer.

Peer Review

Because peer review of essays improves the Columbia Law Review’s selection process and helps to verify piece originality, the Review strongly prefers subjecting submitted pieces to peer review, contingent on piece-selection timeframes and other extenuating circumstances.