Submit to the SMU Science and Technology Law Review

The editorial board of the SMU Science and Technology Law Review invites you to submit articles for publication. Articles will be considered that meet the Standards of Publication (see below). We suggest that law review article submissions follow the Standard Law Review Format. Please also view our General Editorial Guidelines.

We strongly encourage submissions to be made via email, scitech@smu.edu, preferably as a Word document. In the interest of efficiency, we do not accept hard copies sent via USPS.

General Editorial Guidelines

The SMU Science and Technology Law Review publishes articles dealing with the many substantive law issues affecting science and technology. This includes patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, domain names, privacy rights, e-commerce issues, criminal law, dispute resolution, jurisdiction, comparative law, and other areas in which the use of technology raises new or interesting legal issues.

All articles submitted must comply with a Uniform System of Citation and the Texas Rules of Form.

The author must disclose any personal, financial, or professional interest in any subject matter of the article.

The author must state whether the article has been or may be published elsewhere.

Standards of Publication

1. SMU STLR prefers articles approximately 25,000 words or fewer -- the equivalent of 50 law review pages or less -- including text and footnotes.
2. Authors should not hyphenate (i.e., at the right margin) unless they want the word always to have a hyphen.
3. SMU STLR refers to the Texas Law Review Manual on Style, Eighth Edition, for rules on grammar, punctuation, etc.

1. All articles submitted must substantially comply with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Eighteenth Edition.
2. Additionally, citations to Texas cases should adhere to the Texas Rules of Form, Eleventh Edition, which overrules The Bluebook in case of inconsistencies.
3. Authors should use footnotes rather than endnotes.
4. Footnote liberally: Generally speaking, most sentences should be footnoted, and sentences that should not be footnoted are limited to:
   1. Statements of the author’s own viewpoint on a subject; statements or brief subsections of introduction or conclusion.
   2. Statements in a sequence that all come from the same source (including both the source and the same location in the source) that can be footnoted at the end of the sequence or at the end of the paragraph.
   3. Statements of fact from a cited case (but not incluing arguments of a party, holdings of a court).