Yale Law Journal Submissions

The Yale Law Journal will begin to consider article and essay submissions for Volume 122 starting on February 15, 2012. We cannot make submissions decisions or consider expedite requests before that date.

To view drop dates and memoranda for Yale Law School student submissions, click here. To submit work to The Yale Law Journal, please log in to our submission system.

We recommend that prospective and accepted authors take note of our Editing Process. Please click here for further information on how the Journal prepares its pieces for publication. Click here for The Yale Law Journal's Style Sheet.

YLJ Online Submissions

The Yale Law Journal Online continues the mission of our original companion, The Pocket Part, of publishing original scholarship on recent legal and political developments and responses to scholarship published in the printed pages of The Yale Law Journal. We accept submissions from professors, practitioners, judges, legislators, and law students. All YLJ Online pieces are fully accessible on LexisNexis and Westlaw, and available in PDF reprint format as well as on our online companion. 

Publication in YLJ Online is extremely competitive, and all pieces are subjected to a similar, albeit expedited, editing process as those appearing in print. We strongly encourage submissions of between 1500 and 6000 words. If a submission goes beyond this upper limit, each word over 6000 must be integral to the submission's central argument in order for us to consider accepting it. 

For a more detailed guide to submissions, please read our submissions guidelines. YLJ Online uses a blind submission process. In order to ensure an impartial review of your submission, please identify yourself in your cover letter, but do not identify yourself in your electronic submission.

While YLJ Online operates largely on a rolling basis, continually accepting essays from February through the late Fall, the Volume will usually close by November. During that February-November period, we hope to respond within two weeks and to publish within a few months of acceptance. To submit work to The Yale Law Journal Online, please log in to our submission system.