Publication Resources

Please contact the Reference and Instruction Department at LawResearchHelp@neu.edu if you have questions.

Law Journal Submission Service, Washington and Lee University School of Law Library, http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/.
Directory of Law Reviews, Updated by LexisNexis http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/prodev/lawreview
Law Journals, Washburn School of Law, http://www.washlaw.edu/lawjournal/ (list of journals with short description)
Jurist Law Reviews Directory, http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/lawreviews/.
Findlaw Academic Law Review and Journals, http://stu.findlaw.com/journals/index.html.

Law Journals Submissions and Ranking Database from Washington & Lee Law School
Allen K. Rostron, Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals (SSRN Working Paper, June 2009)
Robert M. Jarvis and Phyllis G. Coleman, Ranking Law Reviews by Author Prominence - Ten Years Later, 99 Law Library Journal 573 (2007).
ExpressO 2006 Top 100 Law Reviews (Berkeley Electronic Press). Law reviews ranked according to the number of manuscripts received via the ExpressO submission service
ExpressO 2007 Top Law Reviews: Most Popular Subjects. Subject specific rankings.
Fred R. Shapiro, The Most-Cited Law Reviews, 29 J. Legal Stud. 389 (2000)
Tracey E. George and Chris Guthrie, An Empirical Evaluation of Specialized Law Reviews, 26 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 813 (1999).

NUSL has subscriptions to several sources for submitting publications.

ExpressO, is a service allows authors to submit articles to over 550 law reviews in one transaction. ExpressO delivers the manuscript submissions electronically or via Priority Mail depending on which journals they are going to. NUSL has an institutional account with ExpressO.
- For an overview read the "Getting Started with ExpressO" page and set up your account using your NUSL email.
- ExpressO also provides FAQ about the submission process.
- See ExpressO's survey of legal scholars who used the submission service
SSRN (Social Science Research Network), is an electronic network disseminating information about research in the social sciences. Research is organized into networks including the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).