Washington Law Review's purpose is to publish cutting-edge and thought-provoking legal scholarship from both practitioners and students. Doing it responsibly requires our organization to be aware of the inequities, bias, and institutionalized racism that law schools perpetuate. To that end, WLR is particularly interested in submissions from scholars of color, submissions that address legal issues facing marginalized communities, and submissions that discuss legal issues specific to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

By drawing from our regional community, WLR hopes to publish more articles about issues that are uniquely important to Washington State and the Pacific Northwest, including the Ninth Circuit. WLR wants to hear from voices that may not have had a platform to speak on legal issues impacting their communities, especially those that have been here since time immemorial and as this region has grown. Overall, WLR seeks to respond to the overdue and critical need for diverse voices in law—voices that our legal community has historically overlooked. This is our privilege and our responsibility.

We invite you to consider submitting an article or essay to WLR and/or sharing this call for pieces with your professional network. More information on how to submit and submission deadlines can be found here: https://www.law.uw.edu/wlr/submissions.

If you have questions or comments, please reach out to Jennifer Seely, our Chief Articles Editor (jseely@washlrev.org), and Monica Romero, our Chair of Diversity & Inclusion (mromero@washlrev.org). Thank you.