The Yale Law Journal accepts submissions through its online submissions system. Do not send manuscripts for either The Yale Law Journal's print edition or YLJ Online to individual editors or via email.

Yale Law Journal Submissions

The Yale Law Journal is currently accepting submissions for Volume 120. To submit work to The Yale Law Journal, please log in to our submission system. To view drop dates and memoranda for Yale Law School student submissions, click here. 

We recommend that prospective and accepted authors take note of our Editing Process. Please click here for further information on how the Journal prepares its pieces for publication.

YLJ Online Submissions

The Yale Law Journal Online continues the mission of our original companion, The Pocket Part, of publishing original scholarship and responses to scholarship published in the printed pages of The Yale Law Journal. We accept submissions from professors, practitioners, judges, legislators, and law students. All YLJ Online pieces are fully accessible on LexisNexis and Westlaw, and available in PDF reprint format as well as on our online companion. 

Publication in YLJ Online is extremely competitive, and all pieces are subjected to the same Editing Process as those appearing in print. We strongly encourage submissions of between 1000 and 1500 words. If a submission goes beyond this upper limit, each word over 1500 must be integral to the submission's central argument in order for us to consider accepting it. YLJ Online is also accepting Essays, between 4000 and 6000 words, for publication. Essays should present significant development of legal ideas and arguments, and will be published by YLJ Online on a more infrequent basis than brief pieces.

All submissions should be written in a style accessible to a general audience of practitioners and policy-makers, and should conform to our Style Guide. For a more detailed guide to submissions, please read our Call for Papers. YLJ Online uses a blind submission process. In order to ensure an impartial review of your submission, please identify yourself in your cover letter, but do not identify yourself in your electronic submission.

We hope to respond within two weeks, and to publish within two months of acceptance, during the academic year. To submit work to The Yale Law Journal Online, please log in to our submission system.