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Submitting
an Article to Legal Writing
If you wish to submit an article to Legal Writing, please send two
digital copies to Kristin Gerdy at gerdyk@law.byu.edu.
The first copy should be the standard version of the document. In the second
copy, please remove all indications of authorship, including the
name(s) of the author(s), acknowledgment footnotes that reference
an author’s school, and text or footnotes that reference the program
at an author’s school by name. Because deleting text or footnotes
may change the meaning of the piece, the author(s) can certainly
substitute words such as “my school” “the author,” etc. as appropriate.
WordPerfect, MSWord, and PDF files are all acceptable. If sending
digital versions is not practical, please make other arrangements
by contacting Kristin Gerdy by phone or by mail at the address below:
Professor Kristin Gerdy
J. Reuben Clark School of Law
Brigham Young University
457 JRCB
Provo, UT 84602
E-mail: gerdyk@law.byu.edu
Office: (801) 422-9022
Fax: (801) 422-0404
Members of the Editorial Board review all articles submitted to
the Journal. Articles that receive an affirmative vote of the
majority of editors are accepted for publication. As a general
matter, the Board is looking for well documented articles that our readership will
appreciate either as original theory or as practical pedagogy.
Past Journal editors have developed guidelines for the editing
process that we believe may help authors to understand some
aspects of the Journal’s decision-making process. Before submission, therefore,
authors may wish to consult the Journal’s “Procedures for Editors.”
When making citation and style decisions for your submission, please consult
the most recent edition and printing of the ALWD Citation Manual
(Aspen Publishers), and the most recent edition of The Redbook (West).
Authors are typically notified about the Board’s decision within
four weeks after submission. Two members of the Editorial Board
work with each author in the publication process; in addition, one or
more Assistant Editors also may work on technical aspects of the piece.
When an article is accepted for publication, the author should
be prepared to supply the editors with copies of all difficult-to-find sources,
which we define as materials that cannot be located easily
on Westlaw, LEXIS, the Internet, or in a law library. Examples of materials that
authors would need to supply include, but are not limited
to, non-legal sources, e-mail messages and other unpublished material,
out-of-print material, conference and CLE material, foreign sources, survey
results, and interview transcripts or summaries.
Articles
about Pedagogy
While the Journal publishes articles that highlight legal writing pedagogy,
the Journal is usually not interested in articles that are merely descriptive
of teaching techniques; instead, it seeks articles that include unique
and novel pedagogical ideas presented within the relevant theoretical context.
For example, the author(s) might identify and analyze a theoretical basis
for the pedagogy and then explain how the teaching method is congruent
with or takes the next step in advancing this educational theory. We are
particularly interested in articles that expand on the existing literature
and thus reflect a novel approach to an existing problem. By providing
citations to authorities that document this theoretical basis (or other
appropriate context), authors help our readers to better understand the
piece and also help scholars conducting research on pedagogy to find and
benefit from legal writing scholarship more easily.
Publication Agreement for Authors
To
download the publication agreement click here
