Stanford Environmental Law Journal

The Stanford Environmental Law Journal publishes articles and sometimes essays on timely and important issues in environmental justice, natural resources law, environmental policy, international environmental law, and other topics relating to law and the environment.

Our publications are widely cited in academic, legal, and political publications and contexts. We are available on Lexis and Westlaw, and are carried by national and international legal libraries. Thus, publication in ELJ provides a respectable citation and excellent exposure for any author.

We publish two times per year, ensuring that we have ample time to help you make any needed changes to your article. All papers published in ELJ are critically reviewed in multiple editing rounds by a dedicated and energetic team of student editors, many of whom came to Stanford specifically to study environmental law.

How to Submit

WordPerfect users please note: While we strongly prefer Microsoft Word format, we will not disqualify a submission in WordPerfect format. However, our editing process takes place entirely electronically using Microsoft Word; if we accept your article, we will send you edited drafts, and expect you to return revised drafts, in Word.

Submissions are reviewed blindly, in line with best practices. Please remove all identifying information from Article Submissions.

Please note that we currently only accept student note submissions from Stanford Law School students and recent graduates.

For a description of how we evaluate articles and the qualities we look for in submissions, please review our Article Selection Process.