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Overview
We welcome article, note, essay, and book review submissions from scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students.
We seek to publish innovative scholarship providing analytical, qualitative, descriptive, prescriptive, or normative treatment of topics in tax law, policy, or economics.
As our Journal serves the three constituents of the tax audience, namely, policymakers, practitioners, and professors, we appreciate submissions coming from or targeted towards these groups.
Submission Requirements
Authors may submit to our Journal using ExpressO or LexOpus.
Submissions may also be emailed directly to us as Microsoft Word attachments, along with a CV and cover letter including an abstract, to taxjournal-articles@law.columbia.edu
The cover letter should also include the authors’ names, email addresses, and direct phone numbers. Authors using Word 2007 should save the document as a Word 1997–2003 document, which should bear a .doc extension in the file name.
Submission Guidelines
Body text should be double-spaced, 11-pt. Times New Roman font, with one-inch margins.
Footnotes should be single-spaced, 9-pt. Times New Roman font, and should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Columbia Law Review Ass’n et al. eds.,18th ed. 2005).
The title should be centered.
The author or authors’ name(s) should appear centered, below the title, and with any information about the authors’ background and acknowledgements as the opening footnotes.
These footnotes may be indicated with an asterisk, double asterisk, etc.
All other footnotes should be numbered using MS Word’s automated footnotes.
In MS Word 2003 and earlier, these are inserted by selecting Insert, Reference, Footnote, Insert, or as a shortcut, hitting Alt + I, N, N, I. In MS Word 2007, these are inserted by selecting References, Insert footnote, or as a shortcut, by hitting Alt + Ctrl + F.
Word Limit
Article and note submissions should not exceed 35,000 words, including footnotes.
Essay submissions should not exceed 20,000 words, including footnotes.
Book reviews should not exceed 5,000 words. Abstracts for articles, notes, and essays should not exceed 250 words.
Authors who are unable to submit electronically may send printed manuscripts, CV, and cover letter, along with an electronic copy on disk, flash drive, or CD, to:
Columbia Journal of Tax Law
ATTN: Head Solicitations Editor, 435 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027
Deadline
We accept submissions on a rolling basis, though it is best to submit by the end of July to be reviewed for the Fall issue and by the end of January to be reviewed for the Spring issue.
Expedited Review
Authors may request an expedited review of a submission when faced with a deadline for response to another publication offer.
Requests for expedited review may be made through ExpressO. Authors may also request expedited review by direct email to the Head Solicitations Editor at taxjournal-articles@law.columbia.edu with the subject line “Please expedite: ” followed by the title of the article.
Requests for expedited review should include:
Authors’ names, email addresses, and direct phone numbers
Submission title
Existing offer and deadline
Date by which the author would like a response
We will endeavor to accommodate expedited review requests, though may ask the author to request an extension from the publication that extended their existing offer.
We wish to ensure that each author receives a full and adequate review.
Selection Process
Submissions are reviewed by a committee consisting of J.D. and L.L.M. student Editors and, when possible, Staff.
The Senior Editorial Board makes final decisions on selections, with the advice of members of the Board of Advisors as appropriate.
Once a submission has been selected for publication, the Editor-in-Chief will contact the author(s) regarding our contract and publication process.
Authors should please expect to work closely with the Editors regarding substantive and technical revisions in preparation for final publication.
At the Columbia Journal of Tax Law, we view our authors as our partners in a mutual exchange of ideas.
We look forward to reviewing your submissions and will seek to provide our response as quickly as possible.
