Manuscript Editing for California Law Review Journal Articles
Founded in 1912, the California Law Review is Berkeley Law's primary publication and the first law review in the Western United States. Students at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law run it, and California Law Review, Inc. publishes six issues a year. It seeks pieces substantially legal in nature that depart in method, style, or topic from familiar legal scholarship.
Articles and Essays run under 35,000 words including footnotes. Articles place novel ideas within existing legal conversations, and Essays typically start new ones, often with nonconventional methods. Citations follow The Bluebook, 22nd edition. Each author supplies a name, mailing address, email address, phone number, and CV with the submission. The Articles & Essays Department evaluates each piece. Under the AI Author Policy, every author of an accepted piece signs the Review's AI use and disclosure agreement. Our law review editing checks each citation against the 22nd edition and brings the draft under 35,000 words. Submissions go through Scholastica, and email is also accepted.
Our Promise
We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to California Law Review. We work with you until it is ready or refund your payment in full. That commitment has held since 2002.
Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed. Your draft is secure until you decide to proceed.
Manuscript Editing and Proofreading for the California Law Review
We offer three levels of manuscript editing depending on what your manuscript needs. Each is described below so you can choose the service that fits where your draft is right now.
Grammar and usage, awkward phrasing, repetition, and passive voice corrected, then clarity, concision, sentence structure, transitions, and tone, with your style manual applied throughout and a final proofread. For authors whose argument and structure are settled.
Clarity, emphasis, and paragraph structure: topic sentences, transitions, and sentences reordered within a paragraph, with every fact and claim kept as you wrote it. Includes copy editing and a final proofread.
Spelling, punctuation, typos, capitalization, grammar, and usage corrected with minimal wording changes, for manuscripts that have been edited and need a last check before submission to California Law Review.
The Review's submission page covers length, contact details, and the AI Author Policy. If you have reviewer comments from an earlier submission, send them with your manuscript and we will address each one. If you have questions about which service is right for your manuscript, contact us directly. We respond to every inquiry the same day during business hours.
Our legal editing services include law review editing, line editing, Bluebook citation checking for form, and journal formatting. Academic proofreading covers the final read. If English is your second language, see English language editing for researchers. We also prepare articles for the Virginia Law Review and The University of Chicago Law Review.
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Ready to prepare your manuscript for California Law Review? Use our secure portal to generate an immediate, word-count-based quote and secure your delivery deadline.
Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed.
Direct Support
Reach our editorial team directly to discuss your manuscript, your California Law Review submission timeline, or which service is right for your project. Initial consultations of up to 15 minutes are complimentary.
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