Submission Guidelines

The Thompson Rivers University Law Review (“TRU Law Review”) seeks to promote legal scholarship in its economic, political, and social contexts. To this end, we are pleased to invite you to submit scholarly articles, case comments, and book reviews for publication in the journal. We are in search of original, analytically-rich pieces that exemplify superior legal research and writing. We prefer submissions relevant to Canadian law.

Submissions should comprise between 5,000 and 15,000 words (including footnotes) and must include an abstract of 150-300 words, a short biography of the author(s), and five to ten keywords for database searching. All submissions must be in English.

The TRU Law Review uses the most recent edition of the Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (“OSCOLA”). This citation manual is completely and freely available on the University of Oxford Faculty of Law website. We will accept manuscripts which employ other citation styles provided the author agrees to have their citations converted if their submission is accepted for publication. Our student editors will convert the citations to comply with OSCOLA.  

Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis all year. Please note that our journal does not accept manuscripts that are simultaneously under review for publication elsewhere. We ask that authors confirm their compliance with this policy when they submit their manuscript.

We cannot guarantee publication, even if manuscripts have been revised and resubmitted.

Please e-mail a digital copy of your manuscript in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format to TRULawReview@tru.ca.

The TRU Law Review does not ask authors to pay an article processing charge.