Submission Information
Publishing with the Animal Law Review:
Animal Law Review’s selection process includes review by two Submissions Editors, two Executive Editors, and the Editor in Chief before a decision is made. We consider articles, essays, notes, comments, and other scholarly works that are valuable to attorneys in corporate, governmental, nonprofit, or private practice, as well as legislatures, the judiciary, policy-makers, students, and the interested public.
Submitting your work:
Animal Law is now seeking submissions for Volume 33.1 (fall 2026). The deadline for submissions is June 1st.
Format guidelines:
1. We accept articles by e-mail. Please direct your submission to se-animallaw@lclark.edu.
2. Please use footnotes instead of endnotes. Animal Law follows The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation.
3. We consider articles of any length. However, our goal is to include several scholarly articles between 20–40 pages (double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font) in each issue.
4. Before submitting your paper, please review Animal Law’s policy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) below. After submitting your paper, please fill out our AI Disclosure Form.
AI policy:
The Animal Law editorial board considers a number of factors in its evaluation of submissions. These include the quality and style of the writing, the depth of the legal analysis, and the originality of the topic or argument. The extent to which an author appears to have used artificial intelligence (AI) may be relevant to these considerations.
As such, we require that authors who have used AI to generate the content of their submission, to perform research, or to check spelling and grammar disclose the AI tools they used, the purposes for which they used them, and the extent to which they used them. While an author’s use of AI will not disqualify an article from consideration by the Animal Law editorial board, AI use may be a relevant consideration within the broader submissions review process.
While Animal Law may use AI for certain administrative and minor research tasks as the editorial board deems appropriate, our journal’s written content will continue to be source-checked and edited by our human editorial team. Animal Law does not allow its members to upload any significant portion (defined as more than one sentence at a time) of its authors’ written work to an AI tool.
If you have questions about the submission process, please send an email to se-animallaw@lclark.edu.
Animal Law Review is located in Wood Hall on the Law Campus.
Editor in Chief
Camille Bond
eic-animallaw@lclark.edu
Managing Editor
Katherine Engelken
me-animallaw@lclark.edu
Executive Editors
Brittany Bennett
Dennis Hall
ee-animallaw@lclark.edu
Animal Law Review
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