Submission Guidelines
Submissions should adhere to the following guidelines:
- Submissions should be in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx) or in another compatible format (e.g., rtf).
- Submissions should be in English. We no longer accept Chinese language submissions.
- Complete bibliographical information, including dates, should be provided for all works referred to in the text. Citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th ed. 2010). We recognize that for some Asian sources, the Bluebook may not provide sufficient guidelines, and encourage you to include all pertinent publication information - author, title, year of publication, page numbers, etc - if you cannot determine the proper citation format for your source. Because all citations must be verifiable by the editors, all sources must be readily available or must be sent by the author upon request.
- Authors are requested to provide a brief, publishable summary of the contents of the submission, of no more than 300 words.
- A brief biographical star-note should precede the first citation of the manuscript. Authors are requested to submit a current resume or curriculum vitae with their submissions.
- Tables, diagrams, drawings, graphs, and other illustrations should have an Arabic number and a caption. Authors are requested to refer to tables and graphics by number.
- Although there are no length requirements, we generally find that submissions between 10,000 and 25,000 words (including footnotes) are the most suitable for publication in the East Asia Law Review.
Authors should contact us with any questions. You may either e-mail your submission to us at upennealr(_at_)law(_dot_)upenn(_dot_)edu or you can use our online submission form.
