Submission Guidelines
The Michigan Journal of Law & Society will be accepting Articles, Book Reviews, and other types of scholarship for its Fourth Issue by rolling submissions beginning on Sunday, September 1, 2024.
The Michigan Journal of Law & Society is a light-edit, interdisciplinary journal, meaning that we rely on authors’ subject-specific expertise. We work with our faculty editorial board to strengthen written work and ensure work is accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. Our mission is to streamline the publication process by which important scholarship can enter scholarly debate and inform the public consciousness.
For questions regarding content submissions, please email mjls.execs@umich.edu.
To submit, please email all required materials to mjls.execs@umich.edu.
All submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they are received. Should we not be able to proceed with publishing your submission, we will contact you within 72 hours.
Please find the requirements for the various submission types below:
Articles
To apply, please send the following materials to mjls.execs@umich.edu with “MJLS Article Submission” in the subject line:
– An abstract of no more than 450 words
– Contact information for the manuscript’s author(s)
– A CV or resumé for the manuscript’s author(s)
– An anonymized 8,000-15,000-word manuscript that conforms to MJLS’s mission of interdisciplinary scholarship related to the law.
Book Reviews
We welcome reviews of books that have been published in the last three years. To apply, please send the following materials to mjls.execs@umich.edu with “MJLS Book Review Submission” in the subject line:
– An abstract of no more than 450 words
– Contact information for the book review’s author(s)
– A CV or resumé for the book review’s author(s)
– An anonymized 1,000-2,000-word book review that conforms to MJLS’s mission of interdisciplinary scholarship related to the law.
The MJLS Lab for Developmental, PhD, and Law Student Submissions
In addition to articles and book reviews, the MJLS Lab section is dedicated to shorter, developmental pieces. We welcome projects of 3,000-8,000 words. Such essays might make narrow, highly targeted interventions, suggest directions for future research or legal/policy practice, or offer substantive comments on interdisciplinary methodology. Acceptable scholarship includes everything from well-research op-eds to historiographical essays, argumentative literature reviews, and law journal-style notes. We prioritize submissions from students and early-career researchers.
To apply, please send the following materials to mjls.execs@umich.edu with “MJLS Student Scholarship Submission” in the subject line:
– Contact information for the manuscript’s author(s).
– A CV or resumé for the manuscript’s author(s).
– An anonymized 3,000-8,000-word essay that fits within MJLS’s mission of interdisciplinary scholarship related to the law.
Format of Submissions:
– Submissions to the Michigan Journal of Law & Society should conform to the following guidelines:
(1) The entire document, including notes and references, should utilize 1-inch margins. The above-the-line body text and references should be 12 pt. Times New Roman (or equivalent font), double-spaced. Footnotes may conform to Microsoft Word default fonts and spacing and may be single-spaced.
(2) Documents should be submitted in unlocked Word format.
References:
– Text and writing style should conform to The Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed. 2017). Citations should appear in footnotes and conform to either The Chicago Manual of Style or the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020). Footnotes that are submitted in Chicago style will be converted to Bluebook format.
MJLS is a Voluntary Student Organization that is operating as a provisionally approved journal at the University of Michigan Law School.