Submissions
Michigan Journal of Health Law submission guidelines vary by content type, as follows:
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The Michigan Journal of Health Law (MJoHL) accepts Article submissions exclusively through Scholastica and reviews submissions on a rolling basis during open submission periods.
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Submission Requirements
Each Article submission should include the manuscript, a redacted copy prepared in accordance with the Journal’s partially blind review policy, and a curriculum vitae for each author.
MJoHL uses a partially blind review process for Articles. Authors should remove identifying information where reasonably possible, including names, affiliations, acknowledgments, and other obvious identifying reference
Authors of empirical, interdisciplinary, or technically specialized work should ensure that relevant methods, terminology, and disciplinary context are explained clearly for a legal audience. Upon acceptance, authors may be asked to provide supporting materials reasonably necessary for the editorial process, including datasets, coding information, appendices, or methodological explanations, unless an exception is approved. The Journal will limit access to any nonpublic supporting materials to editors as reasonably necessary for editorial review. Where datasets or other supporting materials are publicly available, authors may instead provide the relevant access information.
Article Length & Formatting
MJoHL prefers concise scholarship making a focused argument. The Journal is currently most interested in pieces of approximately 25,000 words or fewer, including footnotes, though it may consider somewhat shorter or longer submissions where appropriate.
Citations in manuscripts should appear in footnotes, not endnotes, and follow The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (22nd ed. 2025). General prose and style should conform, as applicable, to the Journal’s internal conventions and relevant usage principles reflected in The Chicago Manual of Style.
For questions regarding article submissions, please email mjohloffice@umich.edu.
Submissions
MJoHL is accepting submissions beginning May 15, 2026, on a rolling basis throughout the summer.
The MJoHL Notes Office accepts Student Note submissions from current law students, including students at the University of Michigan Law School and students at other accredited law schools. Recent University of Michigan Law School alumni may submit Student Notes for up to one year after graduation.
Students should email their submissions as Word documents to mjohloffice@umich.edu. The Journal will confirm receipt of each submission, and authors will later receive the Selection Committee’s final decision.
Students seeking additional information about Student Note submissions, particularly prospective authors outside the University of Michigan Law School, may also contact mjohloffice@umich.edu to request further guidance, including the Journal’s student publication guide, The Purplebook.
Preparing Your Submission
Please ensure that your submission is substantively and stylistically ready for publication. Authors should take the time to bring their submissions into conformity with the following formatting and stylistic features of a strong Note. None of these features is required for a piece to be selected, but they help the Selection Committee review the large volume of submissions that it receives.
All pieces selected for publication will ultimately be required to comply with the following checklist:
- The body of the piece should be in Times New Roman, size 12, double spaced above the line.
- Footnotes should be in Times New Roman, size 12, single spaced.
- The piece should include an abstract.
- The piece should include a table of contents.
- The piece should include complete introduction and conclusion sections.
- The piece should include page numbers.
- Citations should be formatted in “journal font,” meaning underlining in place of italics and bold in place of Small Caps.
- Each assertion requiring support should be cited.
- Citations should comply with the 22nd edition of The Bluebook.
- Authors should use the best available sources to support their assertions.
This guidance is not a license to include gratuitous citations. Thoughtful legal scholarship provides sufficient support to prove a proposition, but does not include needlessly repetitious sources. For example, authors should not cite seven cases for a proposition where one or two on-point cases would achieve the same effect.
An author may submit to as many Calls as they are eligible for, but an author may submit only one piece to any given Call.
If a piece is not selected for a particular Call, the Journal will attempt to provide the author with constructive feedback for future submissions. The Journal discourages submission of the same piece to more than three successive Calls.