Submission Guidelines - Sciences Po Law Review - Blog

1- Formal Requirements

Submissions must be written in French or English.

Submissions must be between 1,000 and 3,000 words (+/- 10%).

Submissions must be sent as Google Docs with public editing access (“Share > Anyone with the link > Editor; more instructions here). Please title your document : “Last Name, First Name - Title”.

Submissions must have a title, a summary or abstract (200 words) and paragraphs.

The main text should be in Times New Roman, size 12, with 1-inch margins and 1.5 line spacing. Footnotes should be in Times New Roman, size 10. Please leave spacing between paragraphs. Figures and tables should only be included if essential.

 

2- Scientific Requirements

Submissions must address a specific topic, directly or indirectly related to law, and answer a question, whether or not explicitly formulated as a research question or problématique. Purely descriptive or exclusively advocacy-oriented articles will not be accepted. Submissions must present an original idea supported by rigorous argumentation and draw on relevant legal sources , in clear and accessible language. 

 

3- Bibliographic Standards

Submissions written in French must follow the style Ecole de Bordeaux, while submissions in English must follow OSCOLA.
 

4- Rules on the Use of AI

The use of AI is prohibited to generate or formulate ideas. Examples of prohibited uses: rephrasing a sentence, summariszing an author’s position, developing core argumentative structure, etc.

The use of AI is tolerated to assist with non-reflexive and non-writing tasks. Examples of tolerated uses: comparing divergent translations of a technical term, formatting bibliographic references previously gathered manually, getting feedback on the spelling and syntax of a paragraph, etc.

The use of AI will be checked during the review process and verification software may be used.

 

5- Originality and Use of Submissions

Submissions must be the original work of their author(s). Please note that Sciences Po’s rules regarding integrity and plagiarism apply, in addition to the Sciences Po Law Review’s specific Rules on the use of AI mentioned in the section above. Submissions must not have been published previously. 

Submissions are freely and non-exclusively entrusted to Sciences Po Law Review under the terms of Sciences Po Law Review’s Licence regarding the use of student contributions.

 

6- Submission Process

Submissions must be sent via the Student Submissions Form (and not through email or Whatsapp) and will be reviewed by the Blog Team within two weeks.