The Washington Law Review publishes quarterly books in February, May, August, and November. The Law Review receives over one thousand unsolicited professional manuscripts each year from professors, lawyers, and judges. Articles are reviewed for interesting topics, timeliness, and quality of writing, among other factors. Each book typically contains two professional articles. Each book also includes around six Notes or Comments, short articles written by second-year students on the Law Review. "Notes" analyze a recent case or line of cases, while "Comments" analyze broader areas of law.
The Washington Law Review is published for two main reasons. First, our work is useful to scholars, judges, and practitioners who rely on what we publish to better understand an area of law. The Law Review has individual and institutional subscribers across the country and in more than 30 foreign countries, and the full text of the Law Review is carried on both LEXIS and Westlaw, the two major online legal databases, so that people conducting legal research can easily find relevant articles. Second, by writing, editing, and publishing a legal journal such as the Washington Law Review, we learn a tremendous amount about legal research and writing, as well as about narrow areas of substantive law. One unusual characteristic of the Washington Law Review is that all students are expected to write a publishable article, while most law reviews publish only a few student-written pieces. As a result, students get a chance to master a narrow area of law, and present what they have learned -- and developed -- to a wide and critical audience.
The work necessary to produce an accurate, timely legal journal can be drudgery. It involves reviewing all the materials that an author used in writing an article in order to verify the accuracy of the cited material. It also entails reading and editing an author's work over and over again, trying to improve the article. Finally, it is a commitment that can be a drain on one's time, and can interfere with sleep, studies, and outside pursuits. But membership on the Washington Law Review is also rewarding. Members learn about legal research and writing, about stamina for tedious work, and about teamwork -- experiences which benefit them later in their careers. The work of the Washington Law Review would be impossible without the assistance of the following people: Penny Hazelton, our Faculty Business Manager; Richard O. Kummert, our Faculty Adviser; and Fran Johnson and Jonathan Franklin, our Business Managers.
In addition, the Law Review would like to express its gratitude to the law school community, and especially to the many professors who agree to work with students in finding and writing about interesting legal issues. These people deserve credit for helping to make the Washington Law Review the success that it is.
The Law Review will devote its Feb. 2009 issue to the prosecutorial function, in honor of the late Norm Maleng, King County Prosecuting Attorney for twenty-eight years. Interested authors should submit manuscripts touching upon the role of the criminal prosecutor by early September 2008.
We invite authors to submit scholarly legal articles and essays on all topics of national interest. We ask that authors interested in publishing in the Washington Law Review take a moment to review our editing policy.
We also accept submissions at the address below. We regret that we cannot return authors' manuscripts.
To request an expedited review of a manuscript, please contact the Articles Department at articles@washlrev.org.
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