The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review is now accepting student writing submissions for Volume 62, Issue 2.
We will accept submissions from AUGUST 29TH, 2026, until OCTOBER 7TH, 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 nor students attending a non-U.S. law school 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:
- A one-half-page preemption check,
- A list of professors you worked with and, if applicable, comments from professors with whom you are working, or plan to work,
- A list of sources you relied on, and
- 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.