DePaul Law Review

The DePaul Law Review is ranked 100th in the nation as determined by citation frequency by Washington & Lee Law Review Ranking & 80th in the nation as determined by Google Scholar Metrics.

How to Submit

DePaul Law Review welcomes submissions of unsolicited manuscripts on a rolling basis. Interested authors may submit articles through Scholastica.

If you have questions regarding print submissions, you may contact our Managing Editor of Lead Articles for more information.

Expedite Reviews

DePaul Law Review attempts to honor all requests for expedited review if a manuscript has received an offer from another journal. If the Law Review makes an offer on an expedited manuscript, the author will have a limited amount of time to respond to such an offer.

Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in DePaul Law Review provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

General Submission Rules

Text and citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (20th ed. 2015) and the Texas Law Review Manual on Usage & Style (12th ed. 2011).

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: “publication” in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. If you have concerns about the submission terms for DePaul Law Review, please contact the Editor in Chief or Managing Editor of Lead Articles.

Formatting Requirements
DePaul Law Review has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. It is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe’s Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

Submission Length
DePaul Law Review has no formal length requirements, and we will review all submissions regardless of length. However, we support the statement by the editors of several of our peer journals and endorse the position that most articles can effectively convey their arguments within approximately 40-70 journal pages.

Empirical Work
DePaul Law Review strongly encourages authors submitting empirical works to make their datasets available and accessible during the selection process in order to allow for complete consideration of their work. Further, the acceptance of any empirical work will be contingent upon the author’s documentation and archival of all datasets in a manner sufficient to allow third parties to replicate the published findings. These datasets will be posted in a publicly available space, such as the Law Review’s website. The Law Review will make narrow exceptions to this policy to the extent necessary to protect privacy or confidentiality.

Please visit our website for an explanation of author rights, conditions of use policies, adn personal use exceptions.