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Submissions

Thank you for your interest in submitting an article to the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Submissions for Volume XXIII are currently open.

Why Publish with SJCRCL?

  • Engage with a nationwide audience committed to transformative legal scholarship.
  • Be featured in one of the leading journals in the country dedicated exclusively to civil rights law.
  • Receive thoughtful and collaborative editorial support from a dedicated team of law students committed to civil rights and civil liberties issues and scholarly excellence.

Print Publication

The Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties invites legal professionals and academics to submit manuscripts for publication. We publish two issues each academic year: one in February and one in June.

Submissions for Volume XXIII are currently open. Please upload submissions through Scholastica, along with a current CV or Resume. An abstract is helpful but not required. Footnotes should comply with The Bluebook. Manuscripts should range from 15,000 to 25,000 words; footnotes included

If your manuscript requires expedited review, please let us know. We will do our best to review your manuscript in a timely fashion.

If you have any questions, please contact our Senior Articles Editor, Rachel Broun at rbroun@law.stanford.edu or our Editors in Chief, Tarina Ahuja and Samantha Taylor, at sjcrcl@law.stanford.edu.

Student Notes

We publish student note manuscripts written by Stanford Law School students or alumni who have graduated within the past two years.

Submissions for Volume XXIII will open in the Fall. Students will be notified of student note calls and submission instructions during the school year.

Our student notes range from about 7,500-15,000 words, including footnotes. Citations should conform to The Bluebook. We accept submissions in their original form (i.e., double-spaced Word documents), but we appreciate an effort to place the note into journal format.

Please direct any questions about the student note process to our Senior Student Note Editors at nberg@law.stanford.edu and ninaraj@stanford.edu

Online

Call for Submissions: The Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (SJCRCL) is accepting essay and comment submissions for its inaugural online publication.

SJCRCL is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing civil rights and civil liberties scholarships.  We invite legal scholars, students, practitioners, and advocates to contribute original, short form scholarship on evolving issues in civil rights and civil liberties law for online publication.

As one of the nation’s leading journals dedicated to civil rights and social justice law, SJCRCL provides a forum for rigorous intellectual inquiry into the legal, political, and societal forces that shape and influence civil rights and liberties in the United States.

Please submit your materials to sjcrcl@law.stanford.edu.

Submission Requirements

  1. An anonymized manuscript in Word format of no more than 4,000 words (footnotes included).
  2. A current CV or resume.
  3. Footnotes in compliance with The Bluebook.
  4. SJCRCL Online prefers submissions with a clear thesis or argument that can materially advance discussions surrounding the topic. Opinion pieces and comments on evolving issues are welcome.

About

The Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties (SJCRCL) is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to civil rights and liberties issues. Established in 2004, SJCRCL explores the changing landscape of the civil rights and civil liberties dialogue, the real world implications of these changes on society, and the larger structural and systematic implications of these issues. SJCRCL publishes two issues per year, featuring articles, essays, reviews, and commentary from prominent and emerging scholars, practitioners, and students.

Artificial Intelligence Policy

  1. Mandatory Disclosure
    At submission, authors should disclose any use of generative AI that has played a substantial role in the creation of their submission. Authors may use discretion as to what to disclose. We especially expect authors to disclose if AI was used for argument generation or the creation of any draft language.
  2. Acknowledgement of Responsibility
    Authors are responsible for ensuring anything they submit to SJRCL is completely accurate and original. All claims should be properly attributed to the underlying source. Any unfaithful representation of sources or hallucinated sources may be grounds for SJRCL to rescind an offer of acceptance.