Submission Standards

Welcome Authors: This page is designed to familiarize potential authors with the FIU Law Review’s submission criteria. The point headings below should answer most of the questions posed by prospective authors, but authors should feel free to email the FIU Law Review with any additional questions they may have.

Symposia: The FIU Law Review is a symposium-only journal. This means that every issue of the FIU Law Review will be devoted to a specific symposium topic and its authors will be selected in advance to participate in a colloquy on that topic. Generally, the topic will be broad enough for authors to approach it in a number of different ways.

Invitation-Only: Because the symposia and authors for those symposia are selected in advance—the FIU Law Review will not accept unsolicited submissions that do not have anything to do with the symposium topics for that year. The FIU Law Review selects authors for symposia on an invitation-only basis in conjunction with the faculty of the FIU Law Review.

Unsolicited Manuscripts: Because the FIU Law Review works in an invitation-only symposium format, it will not accept, not read, and not return unsolicited manuscripts.

Deadlines: Authors invited to participate in FIU Law Review symposia will have an opportunity to work with the staff of the FIU Law Review and set a deadline that meets their needs. Because we choose a limited number of authors for each symposium, it is essential that all of our authors meet the deadlines they agree to. Otherwise a single author has the potential of holding up the entire journal.

Length: Author submissions should be at least 15 pages long. Assertions should be fully supported and cited by footnote.

Format Requirements (media): We ask that—for the sake of simplicity—authors submit their articles in Microsoft Word. Please format your manuscript with double-spaced body text and footnotes rather than endnotes.

Format Requirements (citation): Citations should conform to the 18th edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation and Strunk & White, Elements of Style.

Contracts: All of our authors sign standard contracts that grant the FIU Law Review a right of first publication of their work. We usually do not sign contracts until we have had an opportunity to examine an author’s draft and we are sure we will publish it.