All article submissions should be emailed to: editorialoffice@edselnet.org with the subject line: "ELR Article Submission". All submissions should include the manuscript as a Word document. A cover letter and a CV may be included if so wished.
The journal accepts simultaneous consideration of manuscripts, and requires no edits to the manuscript on submission when generally styled for US law reviews, allowing for simple and fast submission in the standard submission cycle.
Articles are academic works of conceptual law of any length, that meet our standards of academic rigor. We seek conceptual law articles of any topic, as we believe that all legal concepts are valid when internally consistent, coherent, and when placed into the appropriate conditions, even if those conditions are not realistic on the current societies on Earth. While we allow for manuscripts to be simultaneously under consideration in other journals as is long-standing custom, and publish articles already published elsewhere when simultaneous publication is permitted, do not submit manuscript that have been licensed for publication in journals or other media that do not permit publication in other journals.
The journal only publishes articles in English, all submissions must be written in the English language.
While not mandatory, the following style guidelines are preferred to be met or partially met, though they won't affect the acceptance likelihood of a submitted manuscript:
- 14-point Century Schoolbook as the font.
- Bolded headers.
- Footnotes instead of endnotes or in-text citations.
- That all citations follow either the house style, or the latest edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation.
- A reference list at the end of the manuscript.
- That an abstract of a maximum of 500 words is included in the submitted manuscript at the beginning of the manuscript under an appropriate header.
We additionally request that any conflicts of interest, funding, and the usage of artificial intelligence in any way, be included in an acknowledgments section, though this may be done as late as the final revisions.
The journal retains the right to reject manuscripts for any reason, including plagiarism, lack of topic fit, perceived seriousness, and a subjective editorial judgment on artificial intelligence usage having replaced human authors to a too great of an extent.
While we permit any length, the longer the manuscript, the generally longer it takes for all stages of the review process, due to increased workload and time required for rigorous review and editorialization. We prefer when manuscripts are under 10000 words as we do not require heavy literature engagement, but we do still accept manuscripts of any length if they meet our standards of rigor. We additionally do not require dense footnotes, though footnotes should still be at least light, and as with length, footnote density affects review and production time.
While we will editorialize manuscripts into the journal's style if accepted, if the author wishes to align with the journal's style at submission, latest published articles, responses, and editorial statements, can be used to observe which style the journal converts manuscripts into during production.