Author Submissions

Making its home at one of the nation's largest universities, the Michigan State Law Review is focused on providing reliable and informative articles of benefit to both legal scholars and practitioners. The Law Review gladly considers unsolicited manuscripts for publication. Notable persons who have been published in the Law Review have included a United States President, United States Senators and Congressmen, an FCC Commissioner, state senators and congressmen, state supreme court justices, United States Court of Appeals Judges, law school deans, prominent professors and scholars of law, an American Bar Association President, and local government officials including a mayor of a major city.

In accordance with our belief that scholarly debate benefits the legal community at large, we encourage the submission of articles and essays discussing controversial ideas as well as new approaches to the practice of law. Recent publication topics include the tax advantages of sport franchises, affirmative action in college admissions, and the execution of juvenile offenders.

As Law Review staff, we are required to produce either a Casenote or a Comment for publication consideration. Our student editors, therefore, understand all too well about how hard authors work to develop articles of interest and to promote new ideas through the written word. Our detail-oriented and efficient production process, coupled with one-on-one marketing efforts on our authors' behalf, results in an author-friendly production process that we believe enhances the overall quality of our Law Review.

If you would like more information about our Review, please feel free to contact the Law Review at (517) 432-6930, or direct an E-mail to: Articles Staff at michstlr@msu.edu. If you are interested in having your article reviewed for publication, please send your manuscript to:

Articles Editor
The Michigan State Law Review
210 Law College Building
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1300 
(517) 432-6930; Fax (517) 432-6801

If you prefer to send your article via E-mail, please send as an attachment (in either Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect format) to: Articles Staff at michstlr@msu.edu. For consideration, manuscripts must be typewritten, double spaced. Manuscript citations should follow the form prescribed in THE BLUEBOOK: A UNIFORM SYSTEM OF CITATION (18th ed. 2005) and THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE (14th ed. 1993). Please allow approximately two weeks for consideration of your manuscript.