Manuscript Editing for Washington Law Review Journal Articles
Established in 1919, the Washington Law Review is Washington State's flagship legal publication. It grew from the state bar journal into a nationally ranked, student-run law review at the University of Washington School of Law, publishing four issues a year.
Scholarship on all topics is welcome, with particular interest in Pacific Northwest and Alaska issues, Ninth Circuit matters, marginalized communities, and work by scholars of color. Articles run 18,000 to 30,000 words including footnotes. Authors are law professors or have more than two years of practice, clerkships included. Citations follow The Bluebook (22nd ed.), with The Redbook (5th ed.) and the Chicago Manual of Style (18th ed.) for grammar. Review stays anonymous until the Submission Season Committee's final vote. Manuscripts remove all identifying information, including citations to the author's earlier work. Name, affiliation, and acknowledgments go in a separate CV. Our editors anonymize the draft and apply the WLR Style Guide. Submissions go through Scholastica.
Our Promise
We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington Law Review.
The Review's submission guidelines cover length, anonymization, and style. 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 Minnesota Law Review and the Ohio State Law Journal.
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Ready to prepare your manuscript for Washington 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 Washington 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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