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Headnotes Submissions

Thank you for your interest in publishing with Minnesota Law Review Headnotes.

If you have a timely article responding to a recent legal development or court opinion, please continue to submit those pieces for consideration to mnlawrev@umn.edu. Headnotes is officially open for submissions to Volume 108, but submissions are accepted via email at any time. The submission period for Headnotes closes when the volume is full.

Headnotes is currently accepting submissions for the Volume 108 Fall Issue.

General Submission Guidelines

Headnotes is the Minnesota Law Review online companion journal. We welcome any response pieces to recent Articles in our print volume, book reviews, and essays, especially essays on recent legal developments or upcoming court cases.

When submitting to Headnotes, please keep in mind the following:

1. Length of essays should be no longer than 10,000 words, including footnotes. An ideal essay is between 5,000 to 9,000 words.

2. While we do take time-sensitive pieces, please keep in mind that we cannot publish all such pieces we receive due to administrative constraints.

3. Headnotes does not accept pieces from current law students, graduate students, or undergraduate students. It does accept submissions from law school faculty, attorneys, and practitioners.

Citations in all manuscripts should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020).