Publication Process

Publication Process

JEEL is currently accepting submissions for Volume 17

Articles Should:

1. Be related to energy or environmental law;

2. Concern a relevant issue to practitioners;

3. Have an original, discernible thesis;

4. Be properly substantiated with footnotes;

5. Be written by a practitioner or by a GW Law student*;

6. Have an approximate word count between 8,000 and 20,000 words.

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*It is JEEL’s long-standing policy to not publish student work outside of GW JEEL members and GW LLM students. This includes work written during a non-GW JD or LLM candidate’s course of study and submitted after the author has received their JD or LLM.

 

To Submit for Consideration for Publication:

Email jeel.submissions@law.gwu.edu with:

1. Your resume and/or CV;

2. A .docx / .doc version of your work;

3. A brief description of the setting / context / environment in which your research and writing was conducted. If the article is responsive to existing published scholarship, please elaborate;

4. Your preferred email address.

 

Timeline:

Issue 1:
– Submissions due in August

– Published in the Winter

 

Issue 2:
– Offers for publication begin to be made late October; submissions accepted through December

– Published in the Spring