North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review

The North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review, a student-run legal journal at the University of North Carolina School of Law, is now accepting submissions for its fourth volume.

We invite legal scholarship on all variety of civil rights topics. Particular consideration will be given to topics on law and conditions affecting North Carolina and the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States.

Priority Review: Submissions received before midnight on July 31, 2023, will receive priority review for publication. Offers will be extended on a rolling basis throughout the priority period. Earlier submissions are encouraged.

Standard Review: Submissions received after the priority period will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The editorial board reserves the ability to suspend this standard submissions period at any time after August 1, 2023, in order to best serve the needs of the journal and its staff.

About the Journal: The North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review operates in collaboration with the UNC Center for Civil Rights and integrates the long-running annual Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity as its annual symposium. The journal aims to publish innovative, important scholarship on current issues in civil rights law, with the goal of protecting and advancing individuals’ actual lived experience of civil rights, liberty, and equality today.

Please submit your article along with a short cover letter and current CV or resume via Scholastica or email to SJ Smith, Executive Articles Editor, at sjbsmith@email.unc.edu. Footnotes should comply with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020).