The Network Law Review (ISSN 3050-452X) welcomes submissions of original, high-quality scholarly work addressing issues at the intersection of law, technology, and digital regulation.
The journal publishes two categories of content.
Research articles are subject to external peer review. This category covers original research articles, case analyses, policy-oriented legal scholarship and interdisciplinary contributions on law and technology. Research articles run to 5000 words including footnotes.
Commentary covers columns, book reviews, symposium contributions and editorial material. This category is assessed by the editorial team and is not presented as peer-reviewed research. Commentary runs to 4000 words including footnotes.
All submissions must be original and must not be under consideration elsewhere.
All research articles are assessed by at least two independent reviewers under a double anonymous process. Manuscripts are first evaluated by the editorial team and, where suitable, sent out for external review. Submissions authored by editors, editorial board members, guest editors or reviewers are assigned to an independent handling editor.
The process is described in full in our Peer Review Policy. Research articles published in special issues follow the same process, together with the rules set out in our Special Issues Policy.
Manuscripts should:
Submissions are sent to schrepel@stanford.edu. Authors receive an acknowledgement of receipt.
Authors adhere to the highest standards of academic integrity. Submissions must be original and must properly cite all sources. The journal screens submissions for plagiarism and follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Authors disclose any financial or personal relationship that could be seen to influence the work, and they disclose the source of any funding received for it. Both disclosures appear on the article page. Authors also disclose any use of generative artificial intelligence in the preparation of the manuscript. Generative artificial intelligence is not accepted as an author.
The Network Law Review is a fully open access journal. All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. Authors may deposit the published version in an institutional or subject repository immediately upon publication, with no embargo.
The Network Law Review charges no submission fee, no processing fee and no publication fee. Reading the journal is free and requires no registration.
