Oregon Law Review

Journal Editors

Members of the Oregon Law Review staff are selected based on the results of a write-on competition open to first- and second-year students. In their first year on the Review, all members serve as Staff Editors. Managing Board members are elected each year by a vote of all members.

If you have any questions regarding Oregon Law Review or the submissions process, email the Editor in Chief.

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Beginning in Fall 2026, OLR will no longer print paper copies of its issues. Instead, OLR will continue to post its articles to HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw, and the University of Oregon’s Scholars’ Bank (see links at end of this page), but on a rolling basis, so that our articles can more quickly become part of the legal discourse.

Single copies of past issues are $12.00 each, subject to availability. To order past issues, please contact our Journals Coordinator by email. 

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Oregon Law Review's editorial staff sets itself apart through a personal approach to the editing process. Each submission will receive a thorough evaluation, a rapid turnaround, and a prompt response to each author.

Unsolicited Manuscripts

Oregon Law Review welcomes unsolicited manuscripts. We publish many articles submitted by scholars and practitioners unaffiliated with the University of Oregon School of Law. We encourage an array of cutting-edge scholarly work. We also publish Notes and Comments by Oregon Law Review student editors. We seek well-written and carefully edited articles on legal issues of contemporary significance. Submissions should conform to the latest editions of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation and The Chicago Manual of Style. We prefer articles under 25,000 words, including footnotes (approximately 50 law review pages). Email submissions to OLR.

Submission Format

Electronic submissions via Scholastica ​​​​​​are strongly preferred. Once we receive your manuscript, you should get an email from Scholastica acknowledging your submission; you will not get an email from the Oregon Law Review. (If necessary, you may email your submission to the Articles Editors.)

We request adherence to the following formatting guidelines when submitting your manuscript:

• Double-spaced text
• One-inch margins
• Times New Roman, 12-pt. font
• Complete, single-spaced footnotes

After sending your submission, please feel free to contact our Articles Editors at any time during the review process.

Review Process

We strive to set ourselves apart through our attentive approach to the review and editing process. Our Articles Editors personally review more than 1,200 prospective articles each year. Factors used to evaluate submissions include contemporary relevance, novelty, and quality of writing and editing.

Offer of Publication

Authors of accepted articles will be notified with an offer as soon as possible. Once accepted, the article is prospectively placed on the publication calendar, and the author is notified of a proposed publication date. Once an author accepts an offer to publish in Oregon Law Review, we expect that author to withdraw the article from all other law reviews.

Editing Process

After an author accepts our offer of publication, we assign the article to an Executive Editor. Once the executive edit is complete, a Managing Editor takes over to ensure a technically superior final product. The Executive and Managing Editors lead a team of experienced Associate Editors and talented Staff Editors.

Throughout the process, the Editor in Chief maintains close contact with the author. In our experience, this strong relationship between authors and editors makes the process not just efficient but also pleasant.

Archives

As the second oldest continuously published law review in the West, OLR has published more than 300 separate issues covering topics of state, national, and international significance. 

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Digitized issues from 1921 to present are available from HeinOnline (login required).