SUBMIT TO HARVARD CR-CL

We are not currently accepting submissions. Submissions for Volume 61.1 will open during the spring semester.

OUTSIDE ARTICLES

Outside Articles submissions for Volume 60.2 closed on August 29, 2024. We will open the submissions window for Volume 61.1 in January 2025.

Please submit to our Outside Articles team if you are a:

  • Professor or legal practitioner with a J.D. or more;
  • Current SJD student; or a
  • Current LLM student who has practiced law professionally as an attorney or equivalent
General Requirements
  • We prefer to receive submissions through Scholastica. However, we also encourage any authors for whom submission through Scholastica might be a financial burden to submit via email to crcl.submissions@mail.law.harvard.edu. No preferential weight will be given to either method of submission during the selection process.
  • Please submit your article and current CV. Footnotes should comply with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020). Authors must submit manuscripts of less than 30,000 words, including footnotes.
  • Please complete this mandatory form along with your submission. CR-CL will not review submissions from authors who have not completed this form.
Empirical Submissions

If your manuscript contains empirical analysis, please include: (1) detailed descriptions of your data collection process and methodology, (2) a statement confirming Institutional Review Board approval (if applicable), and (3) sufficient information to allow your analysis and conclusions to be independently confirmed.

Submission Timeline

Submissions for Volume 61.1 will open in January 2025 for academics, practitioners, and other law school graduates. Questions or concerns? You can contact us at crcl.submissions@mail.law.harvard.edu.

STUDENT WRITING

Submissions for volume 60.2 closed on October 2, 2024 at 11:59 PM. We will begin accepting submissions for Volume 61.1 during the spring semester. This page will be updated with more detailed information.

Please submit to our Student Writing team if you are a:

  • Current JD student; or
  • Current LLM student who has not yet practiced law professionally.

Please note that we are unable to review submissions from undergraduate students at this time.

SUBMIT
General Requirements
  • Submissions must be completely anonymized, so do not include your name or any identifying information anywhere in your submission document.
  • All submissions must include an anonymized cover letter containing:
    1. A one half-page preemption check, which includes an examination of existing literature on the topic and an explanation of what the proposal will add to such literature,
    2. a list of professors you worked with and, if applicable, comments from professors with whom you are working, or plan to work,
    3. a list of sources you relied on, and
    4. a one half-page abstract modeled after a traditional law review article abstract, which includes a thorough thesis and counterarguments, and an expected due date for a final draft if applicable.
  • Please feel free to reference the slides from our fall 2024 Q&A session, posted on the event page, which explain the submission requirements in greater detail. A recording of the Zoom session is also available on the event page.
Frequently Asked Questions

Can I submit more than one piece for consideration?

Yes.

Are there any length requirements?

No. You can look to former published articles to get a sense as to the range of article lengths that are typically published.

When can I expect to hear from you?

Please see our page on our democratic review process to get a general sense for our article review timeline.

Will you make any “rolling” editorial decisions before the submissions deadline?

No. Because we utilize a democratic review process, we will not make any editorial decisions before all articles are submitted and our team can discuss them all. Please see our page on our democratic review process to get a general sense for our article review process. The only reason you would receive an editorial decision from us before the submission deadline is if your piece is “screened out” for not being within CR-CL’s mission and/or scope.

Mailing Address

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Caspersen Student Center, Suite 2048
1585 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138