Submission of Works to the Florida Law Review

The Florida Law Review requests that contributors comply with the following standards:

1. Submission Length

- The Florida Law Review has no minimum or maximum page requirements for submissions. However, we strongly believe that the vast majority of law review articles can convey their arguments most effectively in no more than 70 journal pages (approximately 35,000 words–including footnotes). Authors who target the length of their submissions to meet this standard are more likely to be selected for publication than those who exceed it.

2. Submission Media

- The Florida Law Review accepts submissions through ExpressO (http://law.bepress.com/expresso/) and LexOpus (http://lexopus.wlu.edu). We do not review submissions sent through the mail or email. Please note that, due to the volume of submissions received, it is not our policy to send any acknowledgment of recipt of submissions.

3. Submission Format

- Please format your manuscript with double-spaced body text and footnotes rather than endnotes. Citations should conform to the 19th edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation.

4. Contributor Information

- In addition to your manuscript, please provide a cover letter and curriculum vitae that include the following:

a. a short synopsis of your manuscript;
b. a return mailing address;
c. a telephone number;
d. an email address; and
e. a short list of your recently published scholarly work.

5. Submission Status

- After completion of the review process, we will contact the author regarding the manuscript's final status. Normally, this is the only time we inform contributors of the status of their manuscript. As a matter of policy, we do not discuss the reasons for our publication decisions.

6. Requests for Expedited Review

- The Florida Law Review carefully considers all manuscripts that we receive. However, our submission process has many steps and may require four to six weeks to complete fully. If you require expedited review of your manuscript because you have a pending offer from another journal, please contact us immediately by e-mail. Please provide the following information:

(1) the manuscript's title,
(2) the date when you need an answer, and
(3) your e-mail address and telephone number.

Although we will make every effort to honor requests for an expedited review, we will not omit any stage of our review process.

7. Prior Publication of Submissions

- Although we encourage contributors to concurrently submit their articles to multiple journals, we will not consider manuscripts that are published or under contract to be published in another journal. As a matter of policy, we consider manuscripts available on the internet or through other alternative media outlets as published.

8. Submission Dates

- We accept submissions on a "rolling" basis through the calendar year and strongly encourage contributors to submit manuscripts as soon as the manuscripts are ready. Please note that, due to student unavailability, we do not review paper submissions between April 15th and August 15th. We will begin reviewing all paper submissions received during this period on August 15th.

9. Communications with Authors -

We prefer to communicate with contributors via e-mail at floridalawreview@gmail.com. You may also contact the Executive Articles Editor at nmedenfield@gmail.com.

Thank you for your interest in the Florida Law Review.

Florida Law Review
University of Florida
Fredric G. Levin College of Law
115 Holland Hall
P.O. Box 117637
Gainesville, FL 32611
Tel: 352.273.0670
Fax: 352.392.9641

Previous Issues:
§ July 2010 (Vol. 62, No. 3)
§ April 2010 (Vol. 62, No. 2)
§ Jan. 2010 (Vol. 62, No. 1)
§ Dec. 2009 (Vol. 61 No. 5)
§ Sept. 2009 (Vol. 61, No. 4)
§ July 2009 (Vol. 61, No. 3)
§ April 2009 (Vol. 61, No. 2)
§ January 2009 (Vol. 61, No. 1)

The Florida Law Review presents quality, timely, and relevant works to provide a genuine benefit to the legal community at large. For 62 years, we have been proud to represent the University of Florida as the state's premier scholarly legal journal. Our efforts have led to the Florida Law Review being the only journal in the State of Florida to be ranked in the top 50 by Washinton & Lee University.