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Publication Guidelines

The Louisiana Law Review invites the submission of legal articles and essays, commentaries on legislation or cases, and book reviews.  All authors should take note of the following items on the Review's publication policy.

     1.  Submitted articles must not have been previously published.

     2.  The Board of Editors reserves the right to make such alterations in style and format as it considers necessary.

     3.  Textual style and usage should conform to Bryan Garner's The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style (2d ed. 2002).

     4.  Footnotes should conform to the Louisiana Law Review Streamlined Citation Manual and The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18 ed. 2005).

     5.  Consistent with our continuing efforts to improve journal quality, we prefer articles under 20,000 words, including footnotes.  We reserve the right to publish longer manuscripts under exceptional circumstances.

     6.  Electronic Submissions: The Louisiana Law Review encourages authors to make submissions electronically.  Please send submissions by email to lawreviewsubmissions@law.lsu.edu in Microsoft Word format or through ExpressO.

     7.  Physical Submissions:  The Law Review accepts hard-copy submissions as well.  Please send physical submissions to:

     Louisiana Law Review
     Articles Editor
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     Louisiana State University
     Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803

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