Davis Journal of Legal Studies publishes pieces pertaining to legal studies, defined as “the interdisciplinary, academic study of legal concepts, institutions, and processes”. 

Davis Journal of Legal Studies is currently open for submissions! Our submission period for Volume IV will end on December 31, 2023.

For Volume IV, we will have two submission opportunities available.

The first and optional deadline is to submit an outline by November 27th. Your outline should be related to law or legal research and include a thesis statement and an organizational overview of the paper you plan to write, in addition to a few sources you plan to use.

We are offering this as a new opportunity this year, and the purpose is to incentivize authors to write original pieces for the journal by providing additional resources ahead of the draft submission deadline, December 31st. Authors who submit an outline before the work-in-progress deadline will be added to our Discord and paired with an experienced DJLS editor who can provide peer support through your writing process, as well as access to a general questions channel.

The second and mandatory deadline is to submit a completed submission before December 31st. Papers should be formatted Chicago Style with footnote citations and should include an abstract. Submissions should be between 5 and 25 pages. The submission should be attached as a Google .doc or Word .docx. Please do not include any identifying information in the title of the submission or within the submission file itself. Identifying information includes, but is not limited to, your name, major, course the submission was initially written for, and student ID number.

Article publishing is a selective process and we reserve the right to reject papers that do not meet quality standards, whether due to the use of AI or not. The use of AI is permitted for research, editing, translation, or guidance, so long as it is disclosed at submission.

Outline Submission Form

Draft Submission Form

If you have questions about submissions, please visit our contact page.