Yale Law Journal Submissions

YLJ Online Submissions

Yale Law Journal Submissions

The Yale Law Journal is currently accepting submissions for Volume 119. To submit work to The Yale Law Journal, please log in to our submission system. To view drop dates and memoranda for Yale Law School student submissions, click here.

YLJ Online Submissions

In Fall 2009, The Yale Law Journal Online, the successor to The Pocket Part, will be launched as the Journal's new online platform. YLJ Online continues the original companion's mission of publishing original scholarship and responses to scholarship published in the printed pages of The Yale Law Journal, and continues its submissions policies. We accept submissions from professors, practitioners, judges, legislators, and law students. We strongly encourage submissions of between 1000 and 1500 words. If a submission goes beyond this upper limit, each word over 1500 must be integral to the submission's central argument in order for us to consider accepting it. All submissions should be written in a style accessible to a general audience of practitioners and policy-makers, and should conform to our Style Guide. For a more detailed guide to submissions, please read our Call for Papers.

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.

We hope to respond within two weeks, and to publish within two months of acceptance, during the academic  year.  Please note that we are currently continuing to accept submissions, but that publication of accepted pieces will resume in September 2009. 

To submit work to The Yale Law Journal Online, please log in to our submission system.