Yale Journal on Regulation

The Yale Journal on Regulation (JREG) is the top-ranked specialized journal in administrative and corporate law, among several other fields. We look forward to reviewing your submission.

Please ensure your submitted manuscript is completely anonymized.

Submissions

Our editors review submissions on a rolling basis until each issue is filled. We begin our review in February for the Winter Issue and in August for the following year’s Summer Issue. Submissions are typically closed by late March and late September, respectively.

We seek to review submissions within 21 days of receipt. Due to the high volume of submissions we receive, it is not possible to give feedback on articles that are not accepted for publication. Nonetheless, JREG does seek to notify every author when a final decision has been reached on the publication of his or her piece. If the Journal does extend an offer, we generally expect a decision within 48 hours.

The Journal conducts thorough preemption checks on all articles as part of the review process. Following several stages of review, the entire JREG Board must approve each article for publication.

We encourage article submissions of 15,000 - 35,000 words. We do consider longer submissions, though their length may weigh against acceptance. We regularly publish shorter pieces in our online companion, the JREG Bulletin; please submit to us through the Bulletin’s separate Scholastica portal. For more information, please visit https://www.yalejreg.com/submissions/#section-bulletin.

Expedites

If you have received a formal offer of publication from another journal and would like to receive an expedited review by the Yale Journal on Regulation, please notify us via Scholastica. JREG will attempt to honor all requests for expedited review for which the above information is provided.

Data Policy

Many pieces submitted to Yale JREG contain empirical and statistical analysis. Consistent with emerging norms to enhance reproducibility in social science journals, JREG requires that any author submitting an empirical piece also submit their code and datasets employed in the paper for review. If your piece is accepted for publication, JREG will also publish all associated code and datasets alongside the article on its website.

If a dataset used is available for download elsewhere, such as the U.S. Census or the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) portal, the publication requirement for that dataset will be waived, but authors will still be required to post their code and any hand-coded datasets. In rare, highly specialized cases such as the use of proprietary data, authors should contact JREG.

JREG is a signatory to the Joint Law Review Statement on Data and Code Transparency, which affirms these commitments.