For over a century, The Yale Law Journal has been at the forefront of legal scholarship, sparking conversation and encouraging reflection among scholars and students, as well as practicing lawyers and sitting judges and Justices. The Yale Law Journal offers five basic types of scholarship:

Articles are often lengthy publications, generally authored by professors and practitioners, that provide sustained treatment of important topics and ideas in the law. Articles are selected by an Articles Committee that engages in rigorous reading and discussion of thousands of submissions per volume, without knowledge of the identity of the authors.

Book Reviews and Features are generally solicited from professors and practitioners, and tackle new publications or neglected topics in the law. The Book Reviews and Features Committee considers carefully which projects to pursue, and often encourages short proposals from numerous possible authors before settling on authors to write full pieces.

Notes are publications of substantial length authored by students at the Yale Law School, frequently with the assistance of the Journal’s Notes Development Editors.  The Notes Committee selects its pieces through a blind reading process, with Development Editors recused from voting on pieces to which they have contributed.

Comments are short pieces authored by editors of The Yale Law Journal.  They succinctly tackle interesting issues and puzzles in the law, often raising questions to be answered in longer, subsequent pieces.  The Comments Committee chooses pieces through a blind reading process, with appropriate recusals during voting.

Commentary and Feature Essays are selected by The Yale Law Journal Online Committee and published by The Yale Law Journal Online.  The former are shorter, the latter substantially longer, and both aim to be accessible to a general audience.  Commentary and Feature Essays are authored by professors, practitioners, and students.  Online content submitted to the Journal is chosen without knowledge of the identity of the authors, while solicited online content often emerges from symposia.

Though this broad array of publication formats, The Yale Law Journal continues its more than a century of excellence in publishing the finest legal scholarship.