SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
I. FORMS OF SCHOLARSHIP ACCEPTED
The Bristol Law Review accepts articles and case comments. Book reviews are not accepted. The word-limit for articles is 10,000 words, non-inclusive of footnotes. Case comments should be limited to 4,000 words, inclusive of footnotes. We prefer case comments on recent cases, but we also welcome case comments that take a new approach to, or shed new light on, an important older case.
II. CONTENT
There are no eligibility requirements to make a submission, any legal academic writing is welcome. Submissions are invited from all students who are studying at a higher education institution in the United Kingdom or Ireland, and those university. The word limit for the article submission is 10,000 words. We warmly encourage submissions from students who are writing legal dissertations or legal research projects as part of their undergraduate or postgraduate degree courses, provided these articles have not been and will not be published elsewhere.
III. AUTHORSHIP REQUIREMENTS
We welcome submissions from authors of all backgrounds. In particular, authors need not be current students of the University of Bristol.​
Submissions may be co-authored. We do not have a strict limit on the permissible number of co-authors for a submission. However, the number of co-authors should be reasonable in the light of the length and content of a submission
IV. CITATIONS AND FORMATTING
The Bristol Law Review uses the following style guides:
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Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA), 4th Edition;
OSCOLA Section on Citing International Law Sources; and
The Bristol Law Review’s Submission Guidelines
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From the outset, your submission should be fairly compliant with OSCOLA, although it need not be perfectly so. Your submission need not be compliant with our Style Guide's formatting style; if your submission is selected for publication, it will be edited to comply with our Style Guide.
V. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS
Please make your submission using the form available here and ensure that you have filled in all relevant sections of the submission form.
Please include an abstract of up to 250 words and up to five keywords with your submission.
The Bristol Law Review reviews all submissions carefully, and our editing process is intensive. At the first stage, all submissions will be subjected to a triple review by the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor. Shortlisted pieces will then be read by the Editorial Board to select the final pieces for publication through a marking process. We will notify all authors of the status of their submission after we have finalised the selected pieces for publication.​
If your submission is accepted for publication, the Managing Board and Editorial Board may suggest structural and substantive changes where necessary. After such changes are made (if any), we will work with you to edit and prepare your piece for publication.​​
If you would like to request reasonable adjustments in relation to the submission and review process, please contact the Managing Board at thebristollawreview@gmail.com. Any information you choose to disclose will be strictly confidential and will not be passed on to the reviewing editors.
VI. EXCLUSIVITY
The Bristol Law Review does not accept submissions that are being considered by, or have been published in, other journals, law reviews, or blogs (other than personal SSRN pages). Authors must agree not to submit pieces submitted to the Bristol Law Review for consideration to any other journal, law review, or blog until the end of the review cycle. Submissions made to multiple journals will not be considered for publication.