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Submissions

The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts on novel, provocative, and diverse topics of public and private international and comparative law that will make significant contributions to the field.  Legal scholars and practitioners from around the world are invited to submit manuscripts.  Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis from April until October.

Fordham Law students who are interested in publishing with the Journal should contact the Writing & Research editor; the Journal does not accept submissions from current J.D. or LL.M. students at other law schools. 
 
All manuscripts must be unpublished and written in English.  The Journal prefers submissions that are under 30,000 words.  Footnotes should conform to THE BLUEBOOK:  A UNIFORM SYSTEM OF CITATION (19th ed., 2010).  The Journal follows its own conventions for citations to European Community materials.  For grammatical and stylistic matters, the Journal refers to THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE (16th ed., 2010).  
 
A submission must contain the manuscript, an abstract, and the author's curriculum vitae-and must be submitted electronically.  The Journal prefers submissions be made through the ExpressO system, but submissions may also be emailed (in Microsoft Word or PDF format) directly to the Senior Articles Editor at iljarticles@law.fordham.edu.  The Journal is unable to provide responses to articles not selected for publication due to the large number of submissions the Journal receives. 

Expedite Review Requests

If you have received a formal offer of publication from another journal and would like to request that the Journal expedite its review of your submission, please contact the Senior Articles Editor at iljarticles@law.fordham.edu.  When requesting that the Journal expedite its review, please provide the title of your article, the journal(s) from which you have an offer, and the date by which you must receive a decision from the Journal.  Alternatively, you may submit an expedite review request through ExpressO.  The Journal cannot guarantee a response to every expedite review request, but will endeavor to respond in as timely a manner as possible.

Withdrawal

To withdraw your submission from consideration, please contact the Senior Articles Editor at iljarticles@law.fordham.edu.  Please include the title of the submission in the email.

Editorial Review Process

The Journal is committed to providing comprehensive editorial review of all submissions selected for publication.  In addition to being fact-checked and Bluebooked, each piece goes through three rounds of upper-level edits.  The Journal's editors edit both the citations and the text to ensure it reads cogently and is grammatically correct.  During the editing process, the author is given two opportunities for review.  Authors retain full control over the content of their work, and all comments and suggestions offered by the editors are optional.  Authors should be prepared to provide any cited sources to the Journal editors as requested.