An essential element of The Georgetown Law Journal‘s mission is to encourage and provide a forum for the publication of students’ academic scholarship. In keeping with this goal, the Notes Department typically selects two or three student notes for publication in each issue.
Through an anonymous selection process, the Notes Department considers many aspects of each paper, including the timeliness of the issue discussed, the novelty of the author’s argument and analysis, the appeal of the topic to a generalist legal audience, the quality of the writing, and the paper’s compliance with current Bluebook standards.
Please scroll to the bottom of the page to see submission procedures. The Notes Department reserves the right not to consider notes that are submitted in a manner other than in accordance with the below procedures.
Journal Members
Journal members are required to submit a note for consideration to fulfill the writing component of their Journal experience. The note is due in January of the member’s 3L year. Journal members may submit multiple notes for publication.
Recently Graduated Journal Members
Recently graduated Journal members may submit for consideration papers that they wrote while students at the Law Center. The deadline for these submissions falls in September following the students’ graduation.
Non-Journal Member GULC Students
The Journal also invites the submission of papers by GULC students who are not Journal members. These papers must conform to the note submission procedures listed on this page.
The Journal accepts notes from non-Journal members who are, at the time of the submission deadline, current GULC students. Notes from non-Journal member recent GULC graduates are not accepted. The final submission deadline for graduating non-Journal GULC students will fall at the end of February or beginning of March of their 3L year. See below for specific deadlines.
Upcoming Deadlines for 2011–2012
To be considered for Volume 100, submissions must be received by 5:00 p.m. on the following dates:
- 100.1 – February 28, 2011
- 100.2 – June 6, 2011
- 100.3 – August 1, 2011
- 100.4 – August 30, 2011
- 100.5 – October 3, 2011
- 100.6 – January 4, 2012
Submission Procedure for GULC Students
Submissions should be emailed to Ruchi Gugliani, Senior Notes Editor, at gljnoteseditor@gmail.com.
The submission should be anonymous; the author’s name and other identifying information should be removed from the document. The author must also submit a brief anonymous statement of originality explaining the relevance of the note in the context of the larger academic dialogue.