Attention Law Students: Publish Your Articles With Above The Law

Above the Law has a new program to highlight student scholarship. Get yourself in the pages of Above the Law with none of the public humiliation.

Have you amassed an inordinate amount of research, burned countless hours contemplating weighty matters of law, shunned friends, lost sleep, gone hungry, crafted conclusions to propel scholarship to soaring new heights in a top-notch Note — only to watch as it languishes unread and unconsidered in some journal (if it was accepted for publication at all)? Well, we’d like to change that for you.

America’s favorite website for industry news, court happenings, and embarrassing summer associate stories is launching a new annual program to collect high-quality law student scholarship to be published on the site and collected as an eBook for future generations. In keeping with our trademark style, we’re looking for submissions that advance a compelling academic argument… with a little attitude on the side.

This is kind of like GMU’s The Green Bag — described as a journal for articles that are “brief, readable, and meant to provoke discussion” — except our “Above the Law Review” will exclusively feature student works. Write something pithy, perhaps a shorter, snarkier treatment of your masterpiece of a Note, and we’ll publish it somewhere it can get you noticed by a wider audience.

And maybe, just maybe, we can also drive some traffic to some journals that deserve some eyeballs.

The editorial selection process will feature ATL editors and an as yet undetermined collection of legal luminaries looking for the best works to fill out a quality review.

Here are the submission guidelines:

* Articles should be fewer than 15 pages, and we’re not sticklers for hundreds of footnotes, either.
* Do not submit previously published works.
* Submissions are due by October 31, 2015.
* We’re looking for articles on topics as wide-ranging as:

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  • Con law
  • Intellectual Property
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  • Tech/Discovery
  • Sports
  • General Interest

If you’re interested, please click here to submit your article.

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