Submissions

UNIVERSITY of NOTRE DAME

Featured Volume

Articles and Comments

The Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies (JET) has started the process of soliciting articles and comments for publication in Volume 6. JET also welcomes submissions as outlined below.

JET considers submissions for the featured volume to be published in two issues, one in the Fall and one in the Spring. We are looking for scholars and practitioners considering legal questions in line with the volume topic. If you are interested in writing an article or comment for this volume, please email our Executive Articles and Comments Editor with your proposed title and abstract. Submissions will be reviewed by the Executive Articles and Comments Editor who will recommend articles to the Editor-in-Chief. Notifications will be sent out within two weeks of submission.

By accepting an invitation to publish with JET, the contributing author agrees to withhold the article or comment submitted from submission to any other publication.

Submission Requirements for Articles:

Articles should be at least 15,000 words and no more than 30,000 words. Only in exceptional circumstances will we publish articles in excess of 30,000 words.
Please submit your manuscript for review by the Executive Articles Editor here.
during the solicitation window.
Please include “JET Article Submission” in your subject line.

Submission Requirements for Comments:

Comments should aim to be around 8,000 words.
Please submit your manuscript for joint review by the Executive Articles Editor the Executive Notes Editor here.
during the solicitation window.
Please include “JET Comment Submission” in the subject line.

JET will periodically publish essays as well. A piece will be considered an essay if it is between 10,000 and 15,000 words in length, and its primary purpose is to advance an idea, summarize a development, or initiate or engage in discussion. We strongly encourage authors to submit essays for consideration.

Featured Volume

Student Notes

Student notes submissions window for Volume 6 is now open.

The Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies (JET) welcomes student note submissions for Volume 6. Submissions can focus on legal, scientific, policy, or ethical issues in line with the volume topic. Submissions will be reviewed by the Editorial Board who will recommend articles to the Editor-in-Chief. Notifications will be sent out within to three weeks of submission.

If selected, the student authors will be published with a citation in Volume 6 of JET.

Submission Requirements:

The student-written note should be at least 10,000 words (including footnotes).
Please submit your manuscript for joint review by the Executive Notes Editor here.
Please attach two PDF versions of each submission: one version including the author’s name and one version without the author’s name or any other identifying attributes.

Evaluation Process:

The anonymous version will be presented to the Editorial Board in the selection process. The Editorial Board will make recommendations for publication to the Editor-in-Chief. Based on the recommendations, the Editor-in-Chief will make a final decision regarding publication of each submission.
All submissions will be graded on the substantive and technical quality of the student-written note as well as its relevance to the volume topic.

JET is looking forward to reading each submission. Please feel free to contact the Executive Notes Editor, Esther Adeyemi, by emailing him at oadeyemi@nd.edu with any questions for further clarification.

JET Blog

Blog Submissions

JET Blog publishes shorter, student-written pieces that are tailored toward a wider audience than JET’s official volume publications. These pieces are not limited to the featured volume topic; rather, JET invites submissions exploring the intersection of any emerging technology with an issue in law, science, policy, or ethics.

JET Blog seeks manuscripts between 1,000 and 3,000 words, and will only consider submissions that are less than 5,000 words, including footnotes. We welcome submissions from professors, judges, practitioners, law students, and researchers of science, policy, and ethics.

Selected submissions will be published on JET’s website.

How to Submit:

JET Blog accepts submissions on a continuous basis throughout the year. Authors are encouraged to offer blogs submissions for review by the Executive Online Editor here. Notifications will go out within two weeks of submission.

If you have questions regarding JET Blog, you may contact the Executive Online Editor, Marko Tupanjac (mtupanja@nd.edu), for more information.

General Submission Guidelines

Formatting of Text and Citations: Manuscripts should be double-spaced and use footnotes rather than endnotes. Citations should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (20th ed. 2015) and the text should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. We also request that authors provide a word count, including footnotes. JET encourages use of gender-neutral language.

Replication Policy for Empirical Work: JET strongly encourages authors submitting empirical works to make their datasets available and accessible during selection process in order to allow for complete consideration of their work. Further, the acceptance of any empirical work will be contingent upon the author’s documentation and archival of all datasets in a manner sufficient to allow third parties to replicate the published findings. These datasets will be posted in a publicly available space, such as JET’s website. JET will make narrow exceptions to this policy to the extent necessary to protect privacy and confidentiality.

Time for Submission: There is no best time submit a manuscript to JET. We will never reject an article for lack of space; rather, we will hold it over for consideration in the next volume or will suggest an adjustment for publication in JET Blog. While we encourage contributors to submit articles as soon as they are ready, we do not review articles between mid-May and the beginning of August, so there is no need to rush during this period.

Anonymous Review: To facilitate our anonymous review process, please confine your name, affiliation, biographical information, and acknowledgments to a separate cover page. Please include the manuscript’s title on the first text page.

Notification: We notify authors of our decision by email. We normally do not inform authors of the status of their manuscripts other than through email. As a matter of policy, we do not discuss the reasons for our publication decisions.

Seven-day Offer Window: JET gives every author at least seven days to decide whether to accept any offer of publication. We join the efforts of other student-edited law journals to eliminate exploding offers in order to improve the quality of our deliberations and the scholarship that we publish.

Open Disclosure

We are in the process of securing publication in HeinOnline, Westlaw, and LexisNexis. This is a priority for JET and we want our contributing authors to rest assured that their contributions will be available to the broadest audience possible by the end of the 2024/2025 academic year.