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</div> <div class="lead layout__region layout__region--top-second"> <div class="field field--body bundle--type-landing-page"> <p><img src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Edited.YLL-LawArchive-100x100px-1Color-Black-without-ExclusionZone.png" data-entity-uuid="41b3fda0-a562-4a6f-af40-55b6524de2ba" data-entity-type="file" alt="Folder labeled "Law Archive"" width="75" height="51" loading="lazy"> is a free online archive of working papers, preprints, and fully published papers focusing on legal scholarship. 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Law Archive uses pre-moderation. If your paper is accepted, it will be assigned a DOI and become publicly accessible via Law Archive. <strong>The paper file cannot be deleted, but it can be updated or modified</strong>. Moderators are a cohort of dedicated volunteer librarians and faculty. The inclusion of a paper on Law Archive should not be deemed as an endorsement of the content by Law Archive, Yale Law School, or any other affiliated institution.</p> <h3 class="editor-heading">Policy:</h3> <p class="editor-paragraph">The moderation team will evaluate submitted papers according to the following criteria. Acceptance requires all the following to be met.</p> <ol> <li class="editor-paragraph">Scholarly content <ul> <li class="editor-paragraph">Submissions to Law Archive must be scholarly in nature. Scholarly papers are often intended for an academic or subject matter expert audience and include a citation of sources. Moderators may reject papers that do not engage with current or prior legal authorities and scholarship.</li> <li class="editor-paragraph">We do not intend to evaluate the scholarly quality of the submitted paper, only whether it could fairly be categorized as such.</li> </ul> </li> <li class="editor-paragraph">In a research area we support <ul> <li class="editor-paragraph">In evaluating whether a paper is in a research area we support, namely the law, we will ask ourselves: (1) if the paper directly deals with the law or legal information or (2) for interdisciplinary works, whether a legal perspective is an integral part of the paper’s thesis.</li> </ul> </li> <li class="editor-paragraph">Plausibly categorized <ul> <li class="editor-paragraph">Authors may categorize the subject of their paper according to the indicated taxonomy. Selections should include, but need not be limited to, the discipline of law.</li> </ul> </li> <li class="editor-paragraph">Correctly attributed <ul> <li class="editor-paragraph">We will only accept papers that are correctly attributed. In validating this information, we will perform a general Internet search for a prior public authorship claim of the work.</li> <li class="editor-paragraph">For papers whose text was written either by or with the assistance of generative artificial intelligence, we ask for an explicit declaration of the use of generative artificial intelligence either in the paper or in the abstract submission field. Given the current inaccuracy of testing tools, we appeal to authorial integrity.</li> <li class="editor-paragraph">Anonymous and pseudonymous papers may be accepted provided they otherwise meet the necessary requirements for acceptance. We recognize that the relationship an individual has with a specific name can change or evolve for a variety of reasons, both personal and cultural. While we do accept and encourage the use of ORCiD or other demonstrations of consistent identity, we do not believe this should hinder the distribution of legal scholarship.</li> </ul> </li> <li class="editor-paragraph">In languages we can moderate <ul> <li class="editor-paragraph">We only accept papers written in English.</li> </ul> </li> <li class="editor-paragraph">In a searchable text format <ul> <li class="editor-paragraph">We will only accept papers in a searchable text format such as, word processing documents, searchable PDFs, and other text files. Image-scanned documents are not accepted. 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If rejected, you will similarly receive an email which will also include the reason for the rejection.</p> <p class="editor-paragraph">If you would like to appeal your rejection, please send an email to <a href="mailto:lawarchive@yale.edu">lawarchive@yale.edu</a> with an explanation that responds to the reason for your rejection within one week.</p> <p class="editor-paragraph">Due to staffing and time, moderators will not engage with pre-submission evaluation or discussion of a paper.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="card card--accordion_item card--card-img-left card--display-default accordion_item no-media card-img-left paragraph paragraph--type-accordion-item paragraph--view-mode-default"> <div id="accordion-item-588-heading" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#accordion-item-588" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="accordion-item-588" class="collapsed card-header"> <div class="field field--heading bundle--type-accordion-item"> Withdrawal Policy </div> </div> <div class="card__container card__container-- container"> <div id="accordion-item-588" class="card-inner row collapse" aria-labelledby="accordion-item-588-heading" data-parent="#accordion-335"> <div class="col card-body"> <div class="field field--body bundle--type-accordion-item"> <p>Once a paper has been approved by a Law Archive moderator it becomes part of the scholarly record and generally cannot be withdrawn. 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