Manuscript Editing for Stanford Law Review Journal Articles
Founded in 1948, the Stanford Law Review sets out to publish a journal of worth to lawyers and to give students an educational experience of value. Students at Stanford Law School operate it entirely, publishing six issues a year from January through June. Stanford Law Review Online, founded in 2011, carries short and timely scholarship.
Articles and Essays may run 30,000 words including footnotes, and 20,000 or fewer is preferred. A brief abstract accompanies the text and falls outside the word count. Footnotes follow The Bluebook, 22nd edition. Manuscripts arrive fully anonymized, with names and self-referential phrases such as 'my article' removed. The Articles Committee reviews each piece anonymously through its final vote. Every author completes a generative AI disclosure form, and empirical datasets are documented and archived. Our law review editing removes identifying phrases and checks the footnotes against the 22nd edition. Submissions go through Scholastica.
Our Promise
We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Stanford 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 Stanford 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 Stanford Law Review.
The Review's article submission guidelines cover length, anonymization, and disclosures. 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 California Law Review and The Yale Law Journal.
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Ready to prepare your manuscript for Stanford 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 Stanford 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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