The Marquette Sports Law Review is published twice each year, in June (spring issue) and January (fall issue).

Submissions to the Marquette Sports Law Review are accepted on a rolling basis. There is no yearly or semester deadline for submissions. When an article is accepted for publication it will be placed in the production cycle and published in either the fall or spring issue depending on when the article is submitted and the current slate of articles within the publication cycle.

The Marquette Sports Law Review welcomes submission of any sports related article, book review, or student comment.

The Editorial Board prefers that all submissions are sent by e-mail to the Lead Articles Editor Kristen Knauf.

• In the alternative, submissions can be sent to the following address, but any submission must be included on a disc in Microsoft Word or WordPerfect comparable format:
  
  Lead Articles Editor
  Marquette Sports Law Review
  1103 W. Wisconsin Ave., P. O. Box 1881
  Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

(1) Email submissions-

A manuscript submission by email should include

• (a) Within the email: The author(s) name, contact information, and biographical information. This information should not appear anywhere within the attached manuscript.


• (b) Attached to the email: The manuscript itself.

(2) Submission by Mail-

A manuscript submission by mail should include:

• (a) A cover letter that includes the author(s) name, contact information and biographical information. Do not include any of this information within the manuscript.


• (b) One (1) printed copy of the manuscript.


• (c) A copy of the manuscript submission on a 3 1/2 inch disc or CD-Rom in a Microsoft Word compatible form

ALL submissions must follow the following guidelines:

• (a) Citations in any submission must conform to the Harvard Citator (Bluebook) (18th Edition).


• (b) Authors must be willing to provide any sources that the Review is unable to locate.


• (c) Authors must include a personal resume or biography including his or her educational and occupational background.


• (d) Authors must provide a mailing address and email address.

REVIEW PROCESS

• (1) Once a submission is received, the Lead Articles Editor will contact the author to inform him of receipt and request additional information if needed.


• (2) All submissions are reviewed by the Editorial Board and their Faculty Advisor.


• (3) Upon receipt of a submission by the Lead Articles Editor, the article review process will normally last approximately 1-10 days.


• Categories that are of particular importance include:
  i. Proper use of Bluebook style.
  ii. Quality of Writing (Is the article readable with good transitions with few mistakes in word tense, grammar, spelling and sentence structure?)
  iii. Organization, reasoning and analysis (Does the author present a reasoned and organized legal analysis of the topic? Does the author present the topic in an easy to understand, logical manner?)
  iv. Quality of research (Has the author thoroughly researched the topic area, or do you know of other sources they should have used in their paper?)
  v. Novelty and uniqueness of the topic (Has this topic been covered before in other articles so that the author just restating what has come before? Or, Has the author presented a new and novel look at the topic?)


• (4) All publication decisions are final and are not reviewable.

Contact the Lead Articles Editor Kristen Knauf, for further information.