Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Student Note Submissions

The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review is now accepting student writing submissions for Volume 62, Issue 1.

We will accept submissions from FEBURARY 8TH, 2026, until MARCH 10TH, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. EST. All submissions should be made through the form linked on our website; we will not accept submissions via email.

Please submit to our Student Writing team if you are a:

• Current JD student; or
• Current LLM student who has not yet practiced law professionally.

Please note that we are unable to review submissions from undergraduate students at this time.

General Requirements:

• Submissions must be completely anonymized, so do not include your name or any identifying information anywhere in your submission document.
• All submissions must include an anonymized cover letter containing:

1. A one-half-page preemption check,
2. A list of professors you worked with and, if applicable, comments from professors with whom you are working, or plan to work,
3. A list of sources you relied on, and
4. A one-half-page abstract modeled after a traditional law review article abstract. Please feel free to use the template cover letter featured on our website.

Please feel free to reference our website (https://journals.law.harvard.edu/crcl/submit/) for more information. If you have any questions, please contact the Student Writing team at crcl.studentsubmissions@gmail.com.