Length of law review articles Forum
- MarkRenton
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Length of law review articles
As a recent graduate I've thought about sending some of my seminar papers out to law reviews and other journals in hopes of publishing. What's the general minimum accepted length of an article to qualify as a law review article? While many (most?) articles are incredibly verbose and far exceed the preferable length, it seems like one should shoot for at least 20K words, including footnotes. Would everyone with knowledge on this agree? I've also seemed some evidence that maybe 15K is sufficient. Any thoughts or observations are appreciated.
- SemperLegal
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Re: Length of law review articles
MarkRenton wrote:As a recent graduate I've thought about sending some of my seminar papers out to law reviews and other journals in hopes of publishing. What's the general minimum accepted length of an article to qualify as a law review article? While many (most?) articles are incredibly verbose and far exceed the preferable length, it seems like one should shoot for at least 20K words, including footnotes. Would everyone with knowledge on this agree? I've also seemed some evidence that maybe 15K is sufficient. Any thoughts or observations are appreciated.
Sorry I dont have a word count, but 99% of the submissions I read were between 30-40 pages.
- MarkRenton
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Re: Length of law review articles
Are you referring to student notes or comments?
Addendum: I'm hoping not to publish an actual article, not a note or comment.
Addendum: I'm hoping not to publish an actual article, not a note or comment.
- SemperLegal
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Re: Length of law review articles
MarkRenton wrote:Are you referring to student notes or comments?
Addendum: I'm hoping not to publish an actual article, not a note or comment.
I am talking full articles from professors.
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That's single spaced, TNR 12 pt font w/ 10pt footnotesSemperLegal wrote:MarkRenton wrote:As a recent graduate I've thought about sending some of my seminar papers out to law reviews and other journals in hopes of publishing. What's the general minimum accepted length of an article to qualify as a law review article? While many (most?) articles are incredibly verbose and far exceed the preferable length, it seems like one should shoot for at least 20K words, including footnotes. Would everyone with knowledge on this agree? I've also seemed some evidence that maybe 15K is sufficient. Any thoughts or observations are appreciated.
Sorry I dont have a word count, but 99% of the submissions I read were between 30-40 pages.
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Re: Length of law review articles
I usually like to see around 20k. 15k is probably ok, depending on the above the line/below the line break down.
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Re: Length of law review articles
Ok great, thanks to both of y'all. That's very helpful.
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Class of 2013 here too. I've got 2 articles recently accepted for publication (not notes) and both were only like 35 pages double spaced.
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Congrats! Would you mind letting me know your word count? Also were they accepted at a flagship journal or a secondary journal? I ask because it seems as if secondary journals require fewer words, on average. When did you send your articles out?Void wrote:Class of 2013 here too. I've got 2 articles recently accepted for publication (not notes) and both were only like 35 pages double spaced.
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Re: Length of law review articles
All over the place from my experience. On my journal, we had ones that were 20 pages single spaced to 60 pages. Length didn't matter, only content did. Some journals will specifically have slots for shorter pieces.
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If I remember I will check the word count later today. Both are secondary journals, but one article was accepted by 3 Law Reviews from third-tier schools. I went with a secondary journal from a better school, that was also more geographically appropriate for the article. I sent them both out about a week before graduation because expresso access was still free while I was a student.MarkRenton wrote:Congrats! Would you mind letting me know your word count? Also were they accepted at a flagship journal or a secondary journal? I ask because it seems as if secondary journals require fewer words, on average. When did you send your articles out?Void wrote:Class of 2013 here too. I've got 2 articles recently accepted for publication (not notes) and both were only like 35 pages double spaced.
Edit: One article is 11,500 words. The other is 12,000.
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Fantastic. Thanks so much. I really appreciate thisVoid wrote:If I remember I will check the word count later today. Both are secondary journals, but one article was accepted by 3 Law Reviews from third-tier schools. I went with a secondary journal from a better school, that was also more geographically appropriate for the article. I sent them both out about a week before graduation because expresso access was still free while I was a student.MarkRenton wrote:Congrats! Would you mind letting me know your word count? Also were they accepted at a flagship journal or a secondary journal? I ask because it seems as if secondary journals require fewer words, on average. When did you send your articles out?Void wrote:Class of 2013 here too. I've got 2 articles recently accepted for publication (not notes) and both were only like 35 pages double spaced.
Edit: One article is 11,500 words. The other is 12,000.
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