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We are specifically looking for short essays (< 10,000 words) that address hot topics.**
About the Review
The Pepperdine Law Review was founded in 1972 and is a scholarly law journal published by second and third-year law students at the Pepperdine University School of Law. In its 40 years of existence, the Pepperdine Law Review has been a resource for practitioners, law professors, and judges alike and has been cited several times by the Supreme Court.
Members of the Law Review are selected on the basis of academic excellence and outstanding scholarship, and membership in the Law Review is recognized as both an honor and a unique educational experience. The members of the Law Review edit articles written by professors, lawyers, judges, legislators, and other scholars, as well as producing their own Comments or Notes on legal developments and significant cases. We publish five issues a year and each issue contains articles written by legal scholars, practitioners, law students, and judges.
Essays, Reviews, & Other Correspondence
The Pepperdine Law Review accepts essays, book reviews, and other forms of academic correspondence for publication, in addition to traditional lead articles. The citation format for essays, book reviews, and other forms of academic correspondence is exactly the same as traditional lead articles (e.g.: 42 Pepp. L. Rev. 320 (2014)).
Submitting to Essays, Reviews, & Other Correspondence, and the Public Process
The Pepperdine Law Review accepts submissions of essays, books reviews, and other forms of academic correspondence throughout the entire academic year on a rolling basis. Unlike traditional lead articles and student notes/comments, the Pepperdine Law Review guarantees publication of essays, books reviews, and other forms of academic correspondence within four weeks of their submission and acceptance to the Pepperdine Law Review. As soon as these pieces are ready for publication, they will be published onto pepperdinelawreview.com with temporary pagination, until the most recent of one of the five issues the Law Review publishes is ready for publication. Once the most recent issue is ready for publication, all Essays, Reviews, & Other Correspondence content is published at the end of that issue.
To submit an essay, book review, or other form of academic correspondence, please click here.