Submission guidelines

Articles should be between 1,000 and 3,000 words, which gives a reading time of roughly five to ten minutes. We may accept a longer piece for publication as a series in several parts.

Please submit your article as a Word document (.docx), with your name and college at the top of the first page, set in a clear and legible font. You may include images, provided the file remains under 10 MB and the images do not infringe anyone’s intellectual property.

Cite your sources in accordance with OSCOLA, using endnotes rather than footnotes. Pinpoint citations are not required, but they are welcome.

You must cite any work you quote and acknowledge any argument or idea you have taken from someone else. Our editorial policies set out how we treat plagiarism.

Whichever kind of article you write, it should engage carefully with the relevant material, whether cases, academic commentary or the news. It need not meet the standard of an academic paper, but it should above all be interesting, relevant and accessible.

We welcome interviews as academic or industry articles. When you approach a potential interviewee, you may say that the interview is intended for publication in the Review. Unless the editors have expressly agreed otherwise, you must also make clear that you are acting on your own initiative, not on the instructions of the Review or the Oxford Law Society, and that neither is responsible for how the interview is arranged or conducted.

Please be courteous throughout. We will reject any interview obtained through harassment or other inappropriate conduct, whatever its merits.