Submissions

Call for Articles: Volume 24

The Tribal Law Journal is accepting submissions for Volume 24, to be published in Spring 2025. This call is open to current law students, recent graduates, and legal professionals. This year our topic will center around internal Tribal law. This includes discussions of Tribal case law and statutory law as well as traditional and customary law.

Submissions should include internal Tribal law topics such as Tribal self-determination, Tribal sovereignty, and Tribal self-government.

Deadline

The Tribal Law Journal will consider proposals submitted by Wednesday, September 25, 2024. Upon receipt of your proposal, the Tribal Law Journal will send an acknowledgement to you. Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis. You will be notified by Friday, October 4, 2024, if your proposal has been selected. If your proposal is accepted, the deadline to submit your manuscript will be Wednesday, November 20, 2024, and you will be required to adhere to the scholarly article format requirements listed below.

Article Format

  • The manuscript must not exceed 15,000 words.
  • Text must be double spaced, plain font (Courier or Times New Roman), and no smaller than 12 pt. size.
  • 8.5” × 11” white paper with all margins one inch wide.
  • Page numbers must appear at the bottom of each page.
  • Title and author name(s) must appear on the first page of text.
  • The first note must be a brief author(s)’s biographical (1-2 sentence(s)).
  • Submissions must use only footnotes as a form of citation. Footnotes should be single spaced.
  • Block quotations must be single spaced, indented one inch from margins, and be at least 50 words.
  • Citations must conform to the rules of The Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed.), available from the Harvard Law Review Association or at bookstores carrying legal materials. See Author’s Manuscript Preparation Information.
  • Tribal code and case citation format should conform to the high court of that particular tribe. See Author’sManuscript Preparation Information.
  • Tables and figures must have a maximum size of 4.5” × 7” with headings and notes within those dimensions.

Questions

For more information, please visit the Tribal Law Journal website at lawschool.unm.edu/tlj/.
If you have questions, please contact the Tribal Law Journal at: tlj@law.unm.edu.

Submit Manuscripts for Consideration to

Tribal Law Journal
University of New Mexico School of Law
MSC11 6070, 1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-0001

tlj@law.unm.edu

Acknowledgment of Receipt

Upon receipt of your manuscript, the Tribal Law Journal will send an acknowledgment message. Please keep us informed of any changes to your manuscript or your contact information.

Article Withdrawal

Please notify our office as soon as possible if your manuscript is accepted by another journal so we may withdraw it from consideration.

Review Time Frame

If we are unable to review your manuscript and/or make a decision within 3 months of receipt, we will notify you that the manuscript is being withdrawn from our consideration.

Publication Offer

Once your manuscript is selected for publication we will contact you by phone, email, or fax. If your manuscript is still available we will send our acceptance package which includes an offer letter, Author Response form, Author Information form, our standard Publication Agreement, and Author’s Manuscript Preparation Information.

If you accept our offer, we will request that you submit the final version of the manuscript on a 3.5” high-density (HD) computer disk in MS Word or WordPerfect format along with a printed copy. Contact our office if you do not have a compatible format. It is also important to include copies of all research materials because the University of New Mexico libraries may not include all of an author’s research materials.