JET is currently soliciting submissions for Volume 8. We welcome contributions from scholars, practitioners, and students examining how emerging technologies are reshaping law, policy, and ethics. All submissions are reviewed by JET's editorial board and reviewed against the volume's thematic focus.
Articles & Comments
The Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies (JET) has begun soliciting articles and comments for Volume 8. JET considers submissions for the featured volume to be published in two issues — one in the Fall, 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 pieces to the Editor-in-Chief. Notifications go out within two weeks of submission.
Exclusivity: By accepting an invitation to publish with JET, the contributing author agrees to withhold the submitted article or comment from submission to any other publication.
Articles
- Should be at least 15,000 words and no more than 30,000 words. Articles exceeding 30,000 words are published only in exceptional circumstances.
- Submit your manuscript by emailing the Executive Articles Editor at bobrie24@nd.edu.
- Submission window: rolling during the solicitation period.
- Include "JET Article Submission" in your subject line.
Comments
- Should aim to be around 8,000 words.
- Submit your manuscript for joint review by emailing the Executive Articles Editor at bobrie24@nd.edu and the Executive Notes Editor at fgiancol@nd.edu.
- Submission window: rolling during the solicitation period.
- Include "JET Comment Submission" in the subject line.
On essays: JET periodically publishes essays as well. A piece is 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 discussion. We strongly encourage authors to submit essays for consideration.
Student Notes
JET welcomes student note submissions for Volume 8. Submissions can focus on legal, scientific, policy, or ethical issues in line with the volume topic. Submissions are reviewed by the Editorial Board, which recommends articles to the Editor-in-Chief. Notifications go out within two to three weeks of submission.
If selected, the student authors will be published with a citation in Volume 8 of JET.
Student Notes
- Student-written notes should be at least 10,000 words (including footnotes).
- Submit your manuscript by emailing the Executive Notes Editor at fgiancol@nd.edu.
- Attach two PDF versions of each submission: one with the author's name, and one without the author's name or other identifying attributes.
- The anonymous version is presented to the Editorial Board in the selection process. The Editorial Board makes recommendations for publication to the Editor-in-Chief, who makes the final decision on each submission.
- All submissions are graded on the substantive and technical quality of the student-written note, as well as its relevance to the volume topic.
Questions? Contact the Executive Notes Editor, Francesca Giancola Dolezal, at fgiancol@nd.edu.
General Guidelines
Formatting & 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. Please provide a word count, including footnotes. JET encourages use of gender-neutral language.
Empirical Work Replication
JET strongly encourages authors submitting empirical works to make their datasets accessible during the selection process. Acceptance is contingent on documentation and archival of all datasets sufficient to allow third parties to replicate the published findings. Datasets will be posted in a publicly available space, such as JET's website. Narrow exceptions are made to protect privacy and confidentiality.
Submission Timing
There is no best time to submit a manuscript to JET. We will never reject an article for lack of space; rather, we will hold it over for the next volume or suggest an adjustment for a future volume. 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. Include the manuscript's title on the first text page.
Notification
We notify authors of our decision by email. We 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 we publish.
Indexing & Distribution
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 work will be available to the broadest audience possible by the end of the 2024–2025 academic year.