The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review is currently accepting submissions for Volume 62, Issue 1 of our journal. We would like to invite you to submit any of your manuscripts that advance the dialogue around civil rights and civil liberties.
Harvard CR-CL is the premier publisher of revolutionary legal scholarship. In the past year, we have published articles on racial justice, disability rights, restorative justice, critical race theory, and more. You can access all of our past issues at our website, https://harvardcrcl.org/.
We are accepting submissions from January 14, 2026 - February 1, 2026.
Requirements:
(1) We prefer to receive submissions through Scholastica. However, we also encourage any authors for whom submission through Scholastica might be a financial burden to submit via email to crcl.submissions@mail.law.harvard.edu. Please note we have a new email address for submissions! No preferential weight will be given to either method of submission during the selection process.
(2) Please submit your article and current CV. Footnotes should comply with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (22nd ed. 2025). Authors must submit manuscripts of less than 30,000 words, including footnotes.
(3) Please complete this mandatory form along with your submission. CR-CL will not review submissions from authors who have not completed this form.
Special Requirements for Empirical Submissions
If your manuscript contains empirical analysis, please: 1) describe your methodology in detail, 2) describe how your data was collected, 3) include a statement of Institutional Review Board approval (if applicable), and 4) submit sufficient information to allow your analysis and conclusions to be independently confirmed.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at crcl.submissions@mail.law.harvard.edu.
Sincerely,
Rose Reilly
Editor-in-Chief for Outside Articles
Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Volume 62
crcl.submissions@mail.law.harvard.edu
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