Article Submissions for Volume 40 will remain open until 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT–4) on Monday, August 10th, 2026.
Guidelines for Article Submissions to the Print Journal are described below.
Guidelines for submitting to the Online Journal and for Student Submissions are described here.
Please email [email protected] with any concerns.
ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS:
The Harvard Human Rights Journal publishes an annual print issue containing original scholarly works analyzing contemporary international or domestic human rights issues through the lens of international human rights law.
Submission Guidelines
- Subject Matter: Articles should address contemporary human rights issues from a legal perspective.
- Eligibility: Authors should be scholars or legal practitioners. Law students are not eligible until immediately after graduation (including LLMs), though lawyers pursuing advanced credentials are (i.e., SJDs).
- Length Limitations: We strongly prefer Article submissions that are between 15,000 and 25,000 words in total length, including text, footnotes, and appendices.
- Language: Although we recognize that human rights is an international field, we only publish pieces in English.
- Citation Format: All assertions should be cited. We strongly prefer submissions that use footnotes rather than endnotes and that comply with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020).
Instructions: We ask for all Articles to be submitted in Microsoft Word format through Scholastica, along with a CV or resume. In addition to submission via Scholastica, we ask all authors to upload an anonymized manuscript via this Google form.
Review Process: Submissions will remain open until 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT–4) on Monday, August 10th, 2026. Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to accommodate requests to confirm receipt or respond to inquiries about the status of a submission. We kindly ask that authors not send emails inquiring into the status of their submissions. If a submission is selected for publication, we will contact the author directly.