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The Houston Law Review will begin accepting submissions for Volume 63 (2025-2026 academic year) on February 1st at 8:00 AM CT.



Submissions Procedures

The Houston Law Review is pleased to consider unsolicited manuscripts for publication. We review submissions twice a year, commencing in February and August. Whenever possible, please submit manuscripts in electronic form through Scholastica. All submissions should be double-spaced with footnotes. Citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed.).

Submit to Houston Law Review

If you cannot submit your manuscript electronically, it may be submitted in hardcopy with the understanding that the copy will not be returned. The Houston Law Review will also consider hard copy submissions mailed to:

Houston Law Review
Attn: Submissions
4170 Martin Luther King Blvd,
Suite 515G
Houston, TX 77204-6060

The Houston Law Review does not accept student submissions or any submissions via e-mail.

Expedited Submissions

If you need to expedite your submission, please submit an expedite request through Scholastica. If you did not originally submit your manuscript through Scholastica, you can use this form to make an expedite request.

To ensure prompt handling of your expedite request, please specify your name, the title of your article, the journal from which you have received an offer, and the date your offer expires.


Questions

All communications concerning your article submission should be directed to eic@houstonlawreview.org



HLRe: Houston Law Review Online Submissions

HLRe is pleased to accept any submissions for publication consideration, but typically publishes articles between ten to twenty pages double-spaced (2,500–5,000 words) and containing approximately seventy-five or fewer footnotes (footnotes are only needed for statistics and facts which are not generally known). Citations should conform to standard Bluebook format. Authors should also include a synopsis of two to three sentences.

Email your manuscript and brief synopsis to the Chief Editor of HLRe: Houston Law Review Online at hlre@houstonlawreview.org.




Author Praise for the Houston Law Review



Symposia



The Frankel Lecture

The annual Frankel Lecture series aspires to promote academic exchange by featuring prominent scholars from across the nation who can bring the latest cutting edge legal debate directly to the Houston Law Center. The Frankel Lecture Series provides the Houston Law Review with an opportunity to support and publish presentations by internationally recognized legal scholars such as William Eskridge, Harold Hongju Koh, Judge Alex Kozinski, David Nimmer, Pamela Karlan, Kevin R. Johnson and many others.

In addition to the lecture itself, the articles written by the Keynote Speaker and the Commentators are published in the Houston Law Review’s annual Frankel Lecture issue.

The Houston Law Review is generously supported by the Frankel Family Foundation.


Intellectual Property and Information Law (IPIL) Symposium

IPIL’s National Conference issue, traditionally held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has through the years provided scholars a unique setting to develop, debate and deploy commentary and policy proposals concerning intellectual property and information law. Topics for past conferences have included Patents, Copyright, Trademark & Trade Secret, Information & E-commerce, and Cyber Law.

Papers presented at IPIL appear shortly after the Conference in the Houston Law Review’s annual IPIL symposium issue.