This site from the Washington and Lee School of Law allows authors "to identify law journals by subject, country, or journal rank (where available), to display journal editorial information, and to facilitate an author's article submission to those journals."
This guide, maintained by Colin Miller at the University of South Carolina School of Law, offers information about submitting essays and articles to general online law review supplements.
Maintained by Allen Rostron and Nancy Levit, this publication provides "information about submitting articles to law reviews and journals, including the methods for submitting an article, any special formatting requirements, how to contact them to request an expedited review, and how to contact them to withdraw an article from consideration."
Maintained by Michael Goodyear, this publication "contains charts with information about submitting articles to specialty (non-flagship) law journals at ABA-accredited law schools in the United States, including links to the journal's page, the accepted methods for submitting an article, special formatting or length requirements, whether the journal accepts outside student submissions, and whether the journal offers any non-traditional publishing options."
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The more widely available a source is, the greater the likelihood it will be read and cited. As a result, you may want to investigate where a specific publication is indexed or accessible in full-text. Suggested resources to check include:
CILP is a weekly email index of current articles from around 650 legal publications. To receive a customized "SmartCILP" email each week that focuses only on the subject headings and journals you are interested in, follow these instructions. To edit your SmartCILP profile, create/access your MyHein account.
HeinOnline is a searchable and browsable PDF collection of primary and secondary legal materials. The collection includes: law journals; federal materials; state materials; international materials; treatises and historical documents. Search all HeinOnline databases
Legal Periodicals Full Text indexes 1000+ journals from 1981-date, with full text coverage of more than 250 journals beginning in 1995. Legal Periodicals Retrospective provides index coverage from 1908-1981 to more than 750 journals. (Partial SuperSearch coverage.) EBSCO Help Guides
Complete back issues in PDF format of scholarly journals covering a variety of subjects. It includes some law journals. It is best for older journals not included in HeinOnline.
Provides indexing for more than 1,200 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals, including more than 200 titles in full text.
Brannon P. Denning, Marcia L. McCormick & Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, Becoming a Law Professor: A Candidate's Guide (2010) [Appendix B offers a primer on law review submissions] Law Library KF272 .D46 2010
