ACS Journal Seeks Submissions

The Harvard Law & Policy Review, the official law journal of ACS, has reached out to ACS@YLS members to let them know that it would like to publish our work. The journal is in its second year, and has the goal of providing a forum for substantive debate between progressive legal scholars, policymakers and practitioners.

The journal has had a very successful first two years, publishing decision-makers like Sen. Schumer, former judges like D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia Wald, and top legal scholars like Cass Sunstein and Elizabeth Warren. Each issue also includes a student writing section in which they publish original student work from ACS chapters around the country. The student essays provide unique opportunities for young progressive thinkers to publish their work in a high-level academic forum that is distributed to every member of ACS nationally (a print run of over 6,000 copies an issue), as well as to congressional offices and other progressive decision-makers.

HLPR strives to be a national journal and include ACS law students from across the nation. As the 3rd volume of the Review is prepared, its editors are seeking outstanding student writing from a diverse array of law schools. They have not yet published an author from the Yale ACS chapter and wanted to reach out.

The pieces in our student writing section are more policy oriented than traditional legal writing and tend to be a bit shorter (3,500 – 4,500 words after the editing process) and less footnote heavy. The submissions process is ongoing, but they typically select pieces for the Fall issue in early August and select pieces for the Spring issue by early January.  All submissions can be made to HLPR at law.harvard.edu or to kreilly at law.harvard.edu (and questions can be directed to them as well).