The LSU Law Journal for Social Justice & Policy is closed for Volume V submissions. 

LJSJP invites the submission of legal articles and essays, commentaries on legislation or cases, and book reviews. All authors should take note of the following items on LJSJP’s publication policy:

  1. Submitted articles must not have been previously published.
  2. The Board of Editors reserves the right to make such alterations in style and format as it considers necessary.
  3. Textual style and usage should conform to Bryan Garner’s The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style (4th ed. 2018).
  4. Footnotes should conform to the Louisiana Citation and Style Manual and The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020).
  5. Consistent with our continuing efforts to improve journal quality, we prefer articles under 25,000 words, including footnotes. We reserve the right to publish longer manuscripts under exceptional circumstances.

LJSJP encourages authors to make submissions electronically. Please send submissions by email to ljsjp@lsu.edu in Microsoft Word format.

Please send hard-copy submissions to:

LSU Law Journal for Social Justice and Policy
Editor-in-Chief
Paul M. Hebert Law Center
1 E. Campus Dr.
Baton Rouge, LA 70803



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