Submissions

This page is designed to help you ensure your submission is ready for and fits the scope of the journal. Before submitting you should read over the guidelines here.

Founded in 1959, the Arizona Law Review is a general-interest academic legal journal. The Review is edited and published quarterly by students of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.

The Arizona Law Review has published symposia, major empirical research projects, and articles from a wide variety of scholars. Notable authors recently published or currently scheduled to publish in the Review include Ian Ayres, Erwin Chemerinsky, Harold Demsetz, Dan Dobbs, Richard Epstein, Daniel Farber, Jay Feinman, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Herbert Hovenkamp, Russell Korobkin, Robert Merges, Robert Rabin, Margaret Jane Radin, Judith Resnik, Carol Rose, Frederick Schauer, Richard Stewart, and Kenji Yoshino.

For more about the history of the Review, see Charles E. Ares’s Foreword and Steven B. Duke’s Afterword, both published as part of the journal's 50th Anniversary celebration.

We are a general interest publication and invite submissions of unpublished manuscripts on all topics. All submissions should conform to the 21st edition of The Bluebook. The Review accepts submissions of essays and articles:

• Essays: Essays may address issues of particular interest to the legal academic community, advance something approximating an idea rather than argument, or involve more offbeat topics than articles. Responses to previous articles are treated as essays as well. Their scope, topics, approaches, and insights are diverse, and there is no “typical” or preferred structure of an essay. Essays also tend to be shorter than articles, although they need not be.
• Articles: Articles tend to analyze a problem and suggest a solution. Such analysis usually includes some background information to inform the reader before turning to a novel argument. Often, articles follow a traditional roadmap of introduction, background, analysis/argument, and conclusion, and provide a comprehensive treatment of a particular area of law. Articles tend to be formal in both the author’s tone and analysis with comprehensive substantive support and consistent citation.

Syllabus Archive

Launched in 2011, the Arizona Law Review Syllabus is the online companion to the Arizona Law Review print edition and publishes shorter original pieces and essays on legal topics. Submissions can include essays analyzing current or emerging legal topics, short responses to other legal writing, essays discussing or analyzing recent court decisions and opinions, and book reviews. Submissions are accepted from law school faculty, law students, alumni, attorneys, judges, and other members of the legal community.

The Arizona Law Review is not currently accepting Syllabus submissions.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
3. Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided.
4. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of references and quotations. Authors should make sure they are correct, in substance and style.
5. The text is double-spaced; uses Times New Roman 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review (below) have been followed.

As a condition of publication in the Review, all authors agree to the following terms of copyright.

• The Author hereby retains all rights, title, and interest in the copyright of their published Work in the Review.
• The Author grants the Review the right of first publication of the Work; the right to authorize the electronic reproduction of the Work by Westlaw, LexisNexis, Hein, and by any other electronic means; the right to authorize others to reproduce the Work for noncommercial purposes; and the right to use only a portion of the Work in all of the aforementioned situations.
• The Author further grants the Review the right to publish, reproduce, distribute, and use the Work in any form through an electronic medium over which the Review exercises effective control.
• The Author warrants that their Work is original and that neither the Work nor any part of it has been previously published.
• The Author is responsible for ensuring the Work does not infringe upon any copyright; violate any right of any third parties; contain any libel or other unlawful matter; or make any improper invasion of the privacy of any person. The author agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the University of Arizona and the Review against any claim or proceeding undertaken on any of the aforementioned grounds. Permission to use third-party materials (e.g., figures, tables, photographs, illustrations, trade literature and other data) must be secured prior to publication, and the Author must include these permissions with the final submission to the Review. 
• The Author is permitted to post the final version of the Work online in institutional and other not-for-profit repositories (e.g., the Social Sciences Research Network) and on their own websites. The Review is to be credited as the original publisher in any version posted online and in any republication of the Work authorized by the Author. Such credit shall include a  proper citation to the Work's orginal publication in the Review, which identifies the Author, the volume, the Review, the first page, and the year of the Work's original publication or which indicates that publication in the Review is forthcoming where appropriate. 
• Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual agreement for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the Work, with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in the Review.

Retroactive Copyright Notice: All Authors who published in the Review before June 2024 are hereby granted all rights, title, and interest to the copyright of the published Work as enjoyed by Authors publishing in the Review on or after June 2024. 

The Arizona Law Review is known as one of the few student publications that consistently gets its issues to the printer on time, every time.

During the editing process, the entire editorial staff is at your disposal for both substantive review and citation assistance. Articles Editors and the Senior Articles Editor review each piece and provide substantive feedback on grammar, style, formatting, organization, content, and clarity of argument. The Articles Editors are available via e-mail and phone throughout the process to answer any questions and to share general comments about your piece.

Each piece is also reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief and “copyworked” by the Review staff. Copywork ensures that each citation accurately reflects the stated proposition and conforms to Bluebook citation rules. The Review staff also undertakes a series of internal proofs to prepare each piece for publication.

Finally, as part of the print process, the Arizona Law Review provides authors with 25 complimentary copies of their piece as well as 1 copy of the issue in which the piece appears. The Review sees that the piece is published to several online platforms.

Arizona Law Review allows the following licences for submission:

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Journals published or hosted by the University of Arizona Libraries' Publishing Program do not charge author publishing fees. All journals hosted by the University of Arizona Libraries are fully open access, with no charges to access or to publish.

The Arizona Law Review is published quarterly.