Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review receives submissions of Articles and Essays exclusively through Scholastica.

Blind Review Policy

MLR uses a partially blind review policy for Articles and Essays. Please attach both a PDF and Word version of your manuscript with your name and other identifying characteristics, including references to past work, redacted or removed.

Guidelines for Submissions

Along with your manuscript, please include a curriculum vitae for each author of the piece, preferably in a separate document. Michigan Law Review does not publish Articles written or co-written by J.D. candidates.

Requirements for Empirical Papers

Michigan Law Review has recently signed the Joint Law Review Statement on Data and Code Transparency. In line with this, authors of empirical papers should be prepared to provide any datasets and experimental procedures not included in the text of the paper to the Law Review for upon being accepted for publication, unless an exception is made prior to acceptance. If a dataset used is publicly available for download elsewhere, this requirement may be waived, but authors will still be required to post their code and any hand-coded datasets. In rare, highly specialized cases, such as the use of proprietary data, authors should contact MLR upon submission.

Expedite Request Policy

Michigan Law Review tracks all expedite requests. We keep these dates in mind as we complete our review process. However, due to the volume of requests received daily, we generally do not confirm receipt of expedite requests.

Article Length

We strongly prefer scholarship that makes concise arguments. We are currently seeking essay-length pieces of less than 25,000 words, including footnotes.

Citations in manuscripts should appear in footnotes, not endnotes, and follow The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020). The style of citations and text should conform to The Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed. 2017).

The Michigan Law Review has long been a light-edit journal. This has meant that we do not force authors to accept any of our suggested changes. We hope to build on this tradition in ways that make the editing process more productive while reducing pressures to add citations or explanatory material.

For questions regarding article submissions, please email mlr.articles.office@gmail.com.