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About The Review
The Columbia Law Review is one of the world’s leading publications of legal scholarship. Founded in 1901, the Review is an independent nonprofit corporation that produces a law journal edited and published entirely by students at Columbia Law School. It is one of a handful of student-edited law journals in the nation that publish eight issues a year. The Review is one of the most widely distributed and cited law reviews in the country. It receives about 2,000 submissions per year and selects approximately 20–25 manuscripts for publication annually, in addition to student Notes. In 2008, the Review expanded its audience with the launch of an online supplement to its print issues. Columbia Law Review Forum, formerly known as Online, brings together a diverse group of legal scholars, practitioners, community leaders, and judges into one forum for the discussion of pressing legal issues.
CLR Forum
CLR Forum is the online companion to the print journal and its purpose is to provide an online forum for legal discussion from a variety of perspectives. CLR Forum is committed to publishing short, timely works of original scholarship, often responding to new legal developments or anticipating changes that will come in the future, as well as responses to scholarship that appear in the Review’s print edition. The criteria for online publication are consistent with the Review’s standards as a leading source of legal scholarship and include the same editing process as our print publications. CLR Forum pieces are published throughout the year on a continuous basis. Published content is available on Westlaw, LexisNexis, Hein, and EBSCO in addition to being permanently available online on CLR Forum’s webpage and in PDF form, formatted and paginated in the same manner as our print publications.
CLR Forum has a strong preference for pieces between 3,000 and 10,000 words (including footnotes), but will review longer pieces that meet our submission criteria.
The Review’s Submission Options
The Columbia Law Review publishes Articles, Essays, and Book Reviews in our print editions and publishes online pieces in CLR Forum. Submissions of all four are now done through Scholastica. If you have determined that we should review your submission as a CLR Forum piece for online publication, please submit through the CLR Forum page here.