The Arizona State Law Journal Forum is currently accepting submissions.

Who Can Submit:

The Arizona State Law Journal Forum welcomes essays on a variety of law and law-related topics from legal practitioners, law professors, and J.D. Candidates. Please anonymize your manuscript by removing identifying information and acknowledgements before submitting to the Forum.

Accepted Submission Types:

The Forum accepts professional quality, accessible essays on timely legal topics, regardless of authorship. The Forum also accepts Notes or Comments of professional quality. The Forum only publishes articles between 3,000 and 6,000 words, including footnotes.

The Forum publishes responses to the Arizona State Law Journal but not responses to articles in other journals. The Forum does not publish book or article reviews.

To ensure a fair and impartial review process, the Forum does not perform expedited reviews. The Forum exclusively conducts blind reviews, so cover letters, CVs, and resumes will not be considered.

The first page of all submissions should include a short (approximately 100 words) abstract distinct from the essay’s first paragraph that summarizes the essay’s main findings. In the Fall 2026 submission cycle, all citations must substantially conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (22nd ed. 2025).

If your manuscript is accepted, please be prepared to provide copies of any sources that were difficult to locate or access either via email or file drive. Authors must also disclose any generative artificial intelligence in the essay’s text. Articles with hallucinated sources in the final manuscript will not be published.

Preferred Submissions:

While the Forum welcomes submissions on any topic that conform to the above requirements, some topics receive preferential treatment. Particularly, the Forum prioritizes the following:
-Articles that respond to or otherwise substantially interact with recent issues of the Arizona State Law Journal.
-Articles addressing current, evolving issues in legal practice or scholarship.
-Articles addressing Arizona law.
For questions, please email the Executive Articles Editor.