An Invitation to Authors
The Administrative Law Review endeavors to be a forum for views on developments pertaining to administrative law, the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, and other information of interest and use to its members and other readers.
The Administrative Law Review welcomes the submission of original articles, comments, book reviews, and case studies. Manuscripts should be double-spaced and in Times New Roman font. We require footnotes and conformity to A Uniform System of Citation (18th Edition) published by The Harvard Law Review Association (the Bluebook).
Submit manuscripts to us electronically (preferred) or by mail.
To address the growing length of law review articles, the Administrative Law Review has adopted a policy limiting the length of articles we will review or publish.
The Administrative Law Review will give strong preference to articles under 28,000 words in length (approximately 55 law review pages), including text and footnotes. The Administrative Law Review will not publish articles exceeding 35,000 words in length (approximately 70 law review pages) except in extraordinary circumstances.
This policy reflects our acknowledgment of what many law reviews and journals have realized: we share the responsibility to make legal scholarship more focused and, therefore, effective. The Administrative Law Review encourages authors to provide a word count, including text and footnotes, to facilitate our review of manuscripts.
To reaffirm a longstanding policy, the Administrative Law Review does not accept submissions from Juris Doctor students other than those serving as staff members for the Administrative Law Review.
If there are any questions or concerns about this policy, you may email the Senior Articles Editor.
- Prepare a copy of your manuscript in Microsoft Word or rich-text (RTF) format.
- Send your manuscript to the Editor in Chief at alr-editor-in-chief@wcl.american.edu, attaching your manuscript as a file.
- We will not consider, and will not accept responsibility for, files that are corrupted, infected, or otherwise unreadable on our system.
- Expedited requests: Clearly state in your submission if you would like an expedited review. We cannot accept expedited requests with less than one week's notice, without a prior arrangement.
- We cannot accept submissions in languages other than English or in Word Perfect format.
Editor in Chief
Administrative Law Review
American University Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Suite 622
Washington, DC 20016
Telephone: (202) 274-4480
Fax: (202) 274-0802
E-mail: alr-editor-in-chief@wcl.american.edu
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