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Manuscript Submission
The Cleveland State Law Review welcomes original legal scholarship addressing a broad range of legal topics, including doctrinal analysis, emerging legal issues, and interdisciplinary scholarship. Submissions should offer a meaningful contribution to legal scholarship, practice, or policy. Cleveland State Law Review welcomes submissions by judges, professors, practitioners, and law clerks. We do not publish works submitted by students currently enrolled at other law schools.
For the main publication, the journal will give preference to manuscripts between 20 and 60 law review pages in length, including text and footnotes. We strongly disfavor articles exceeding 80 pages.
Et Cetera, Cleveland State Law Review's online only publication, seeks concise, accessible commentary on timely legal developments, emerging issues, and matters of significance to the legal community. Submissions may address recent judicial decisions, legislative or regulatory developments, changes in legal practice, and other current legal issues. Topics related to Ohio or Northeast Ohio will be given preference. Manuscripts should range from 1,000-10,000 words. Authors need not submit separately for consideration for the main publication and Et Cetera. All submissions received through the designated submission channels will be considered for the publication best suited to the journal.
All submissions should conform to the 22nd edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (White pages) and should include a cover letter and the author's current CV or résumé. Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word Format (e.g. .doc or .docx). All other documents (cover letter and CV or résumé) may be submitted as a PDF. Electronic submissions are preferred, but the journal will accept hard copies if necessary.
The journal makes every effort to comply with expedited review requests. Due to the volume of submissions, the journal is unable to personally respond to every submission.
Submissions can be made through Scholastica or sent to our email: [email protected]
For more information please contact our Submissions Editor at [email protected]
Membership Selection
Students are the driving force of the Law Review. Each year, a number of distinguished CSU law students oversee the entire publication process: selecting articles submitted to the Law Review for publication, the editorial process, and final publication of each issue of the Law Review.
Editors of the Law Review organize and implement the day-to-day operations, while Associates focus on editing and perfecting articles in anticipation of publication. Associates must compose a scholarly Note of publishable quality on a legal topic of their choosing.
In order to be eligible for invitation to join the Law Review, a student must:
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Have at least three semesters remaining
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Have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0
Each year, the Law Review extends invitations to:
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Students ranked within the top 10% of each class
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Students selected for invitation through the Summer Writing Competition
Class Rank Invitations are extended to all students within the top 10% of their respective classes (full-time and part-time).
Part-time and dual degree students who are invited to join the Law Review by virtue of their class rank may defer membership for one year provided that they continue to meet the requirements for an invitation the following year.
The Law Review also extends invitations to students who successfully compete in the Summer Writing Competition. The Summer Writing Competition, conducted jointly with the Journal of Law & Health and the Global Business Law Review, requires students who wish to join the Law Review to compose a written product that demonstrates the excellent writing skills necessary to compose a high-quality scholarly article. A student may enter the Law Review's Summer Writing Competition only once during their tenure at CSU Law. Under no circumstances will a student receive an invitation to join the Law Review more than twice.