Florida A & M University Law Review

FAMU Law Review seeks Articles, Notes, Comments, and Short Essays for publication in its print journal, as well as on our website.

Articles are generally written by law professors, judges or practitioners. Articles discuss legal problems or complexities, and usually express the author’s thoughts and solutions to such problems. Articles should be at least 20 pages and will need footnotes to support the arguments made as well as a focused thesis.

Notes and Comments are usually written by law students, are considerably shorter than Articles, and are related to the law in some fashion. Topics are wide-ranging and may be contemporary or historical in nature.

Essays are generally 6,000 to 10,000 words including footnotes and can be written by students or professors. They address current topics in the law in a brief manner and are meant to advance an idea or summarize an area of law, as well as stimulate discussion on a legal topic. These pieces are footnoted and have easy readability for a wide audience. Essays can be more conversational and theoretical than traditional articles, freer in form, and contribute to legal scholarship by discussing a new idea or making a philosophical critique.

Please provide all submissions in word document format and be sure to use resources available, such as Grammarly, to ensure a quality submission of work. FAMU Law Review greatly appreciates your interest in our publication, and we look forward to reviewing your submission

CITATION FORMAT:

All articles, notes, comments, and essays should comply with The Bluebook: A Uniform Style of Citation (21st Edition).

REVIEW PROCESS:

Law Review is dedicated to quality and consistency in its publication. For that reason, we put each article accepted for publication through a rigorous editing process, whereby student editors perform cite checks, review the grammar and diction of a piece, and make those stylistic changes that will enhance an article’s substance and flow.

The Law Review is committed to publishing work that is concise and readable. We strongly encourage submissions of fewer than 25,000 words, including footnotes (roughly 50 journal pages). For submissions that exceed this limitation, length will be a factor that weighs significantly against acceptance of the manuscript.

To facilitate our anonymous review process, please confine your name, affiliation, biographical information, and acknowledgments to a separate cover page. Please include the manuscript’s title on the first text page.

For an expedited review, please contact us at famu.lr.ae@gmail.com after submitting your manuscript. In the email, please provide us with:

1. The title of your piece
2. The date by which you would like an answer
3. A contact phone number
4. A contact email address

FAMU Law Review carefully considers all articles submitted for publication. Each piece is reviewed by at least two staff as editors, and by at least one Editorial Board member. Each piece will likely go through several rounds of edits before it is submitted for print.

To stay updated on priority deadlines for this journal please visit our Instagram page @famulawreview, otherwise all submissions will be considered as they are received. Although we do have deadlines for article acceptance for each issue, any article submitted after that date will be passed on to be considered for publication in a future issue or volume.

PREFERENCE FOR EXCLUSIVITY:

We strongly recommend that you submit your manuscript to us exclusively. As described above, our review process is lengthy and requires time to select and edit the work to the standards of this journal. Accordingly, if your preference is to publish your submission, please consider submitting the manuscript to the Law Review exclusively at least 10 days before submitting it to other journals.