Submissions

Author Guidelines

The Journal of Law, Emerging Technology, and Information welcomes submissions from law librarians, faculty, students, lawyers, judges, technologists, legal educators, researchers, policymakers, and other professionals whose work fits within the Journal’s scope.

JLETI publishes rigorous, readable, practical, and interdisciplinary work on law, emerging technology, legal education, legal information, legal research, law librarianship, access to justice, professional responsibility, information governance, legal technology, artificial intelligence, and the future of legal practice.

JLETI considers the following categories of work:

Originality and Prior Versions

Submissions should be original and should not be under simultaneous consideration elsewhere unless disclosed and approved by the Editor-in-Chief.

JLETI welcomes submissions that develop ideas first shared in informal, preliminary, or professional settings, including blog posts, Substack essays, LinkedIn posts, conference presentations, teaching materials, working papers, slide decks, listserv discussions, or professional commentary. Such submissions may be considered original if they are substantially revised, expanded, updated, or adapted for publication in the Journal. Authors must disclose any prior version or related public dissemination at the time of submission. The Editor-in-Chief will determine whether the submission makes a sufficiently new and independent contribution for publication. 

Submission Format

Submissions should be provided in Microsoft Word format unless another format has been approved by the Editor-in-Chief. Authors should include a title, author name and affiliation, author contact information, abstract or short summary, manuscript text, footnotes or references, and any disclosure statement if applicable.

Authors should upload the manuscript as a Word document and upload any appendices, teaching materials, tool evaluation materials, datasets, figures, prompt logs, source-verification materials, permissions, or disclosure statements as supplemental files. JLETI controls final formatting, PDF production, HTML galley design, metadata, and publication layout.

Citation and Source Verification

Legal submissions should generally follow The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. Interdisciplinary submissions may use another recognized citation style if approved by the Editor-in-Chief.

All citations, quotations, legal authorities, factual claims, data claims, and web sources must be accurate, complete, and verifiable. Authors may be asked to provide copies, screenshots, archived links, datasets, source files, or other documentation for materials that are difficult to verify.

AI Use and Disclosure

Authors must disclose any meaningful use of generative AI or other artificial intelligence tools in the research, drafting, editing, analysis, citation review, source verification, data analysis, or preparation of a submission.

The disclosure should identify the general nature of the AI use, including whether AI was used to generate text, summarize sources, develop arguments, analyze data, create teaching materials, test prompts, evaluate tools, verify citations, or assist with editing. Authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and completeness of the submitted work.

For submissions in the AI Scholarship Lab, authors may be asked to provide additional information, such as prompts, prompt logs, model outputs, model names or versions, testing dates, verification methods, limitations, or supplemental materials necessary to make the project transparent and reviewable.

Tool Evaluations

Tool evaluations should be transparent about methodology, limitations, and conflicts of interest. Authors should disclose whether they received free access, compensation, sponsorship, or other benefits; the version of the tool tested; the dates of testing; the testing methodology; the nature of prompts, research tasks, or use cases tested; limitations of the evaluation; and whether results may change as the tool changes.

Conflicts of Interest

Authors must disclose financial, professional, institutional, personal, or other relationships that could reasonably affect judgment, review, or publication integrity.

Review and Publication 

All submissions undergo editorial review. Authors will be notified of the editorial decision and may be asked to revise and resubmit. Accepted submissions may be edited for clarity, citation accuracy, formatting, metadata, accessibility, PDF production, HTML publication, and compliance with JLETI’s editorial policies.