Submissions
If you have something you’d like to see published in I Taught the Law, please send an email with your Medium handle to itaughtthelaw@gmail.com. We’ll add you as a writer. Once you have your article drafted in Medium, and you’ve been added as a writer, click the three dots in the upper-right hand corner and then “Add to Publication.” This will not immediately publish your piece; we still get a crack at it.
Please note that adding you as a writer does not mean that you will be published here. It just means that you have the ability to submit. We will still review all submissions before publication. We might also do some minor copy editing, because we’re writing professors and we can’t help ourselves. If we want to make any changes to substance, we’ll run those by you first.
If you don’t have a Medium handle, then you’ll need to email your submission along with a brief (one paragraph) bio. From there, the process is pretty much the same.
We don’t pay for submissions. Maybe someday we’ll be able to do that, but not today. We will share your stuff via our social media accounts and all that. We’ll also be very grateful.
We are still figuring out what sort of publication this is, so for now, any article related to “the law” in any way will be considered. We’re mostly interested in good writing, in plain English, on topics that haven’t been done to death or that you have some personal experience with.
Here’s what you should NOT bother submitting:
- Advertisements for products or services
- Links to other stuff you’ve already published, unless you can prove that we can reprint it in full without getting in trouble
- Self-serving praise (unless you really, really deserve it)
- Anything that may qualify as libel (if you aren’t sure what that is, we can recommend some law schools to attend)
A note about citations: We encourage you to show your work, but let’s face it — no one reads endnotes. Please provide hyperlinks as much as you think is appropriate, even if you’re just citing to Wikipedia or whatever. If you’re a legal professional, remember that our goal is to bring law stuff to non-lawyers, so hyperlinks to your arcane terms and esoteric references are appreciated.
We also encourage you to use Perma Links to freeze the websites you reference in time. That way, the editors won’t get messages about dead links six months from now. Those make us grumpy.
If you have any other questions, get in touch with us. We’re pretty easy to find.
