Manuscript Editing for The Yale Law Journal Articles
Founded in 1891 by students at Yale Law School, The Yale Law Journal aims to shape discussion of the most important and relevant legal issues. The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc. publishes it as a student-run journal, in eight issues from October through June. Its print pages carry Articles, Essays, Book Reviews, and student work, and the YLJ Forum publishes Essays and Responses.
Articles should run under 25,000 words and Essays under 15,000, with footnotes counted in both. Book Reviews and Forum pieces run under 10,000 words including footnotes. A short abstract accompanies each submission. Submissions conform to the Bluebook and the Journal's citation requirements, and its Volume 136 Style Guide names the 22d edition. The Articles & Essays Committee reviews every piece fully anonymized. Names, affiliations, and acknowledgments come out of the text, footnotes, file name, and document metadata. A separate disclosures file covers conflicts of interest, data, IRB approval, and any AI use. Our law review editing strips identifying details and checks every citation for Bluebook form. Submissions go through the Journal's online system.
Our Promise
We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to The Yale Law Journal. 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 Yale Law Journal
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 The Yale Law Journal.
The Journal's submissions page covers 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 Harvard Law Review and the Stanford Law Review.
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Ready to prepare your manuscript for The Yale Law Journal? 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.
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Reach our editorial team directly to discuss your manuscript, your The Yale Law Journal submission timeline, or which service is right for your project. Initial consultations of up to 15 minutes are complimentary.
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