The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics is a quarterly publication of scholarly commentary on and practical analysis of Legal Ethics and the future of the legal profession. Our publication spans a broad range of subject matter and reaches a wide global audience, including practitioners, policymakers, scholars, and students. The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics publishes articles and book reviews which are of scholarly length and quality. We accept submissions throughout the year on a rolling basis.
The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics was founded in 1987 by Father Robert Drinan. As a law journal, we seek to exemplify the mission and mandate of the legal profession articulated in Canon 32 of the Canons of Professional Ethics, which was approved by the American Bar Association in 1908. Canon 32 states that the lawyer “advances the honor of his profession and the best interest of his client when he renders service or gives advice tending to impress upon the client and his undertaking exact compliance with the strictest principles of moral law.”
The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics prefers that authors submit articles through Scholastica. Alternatively, authors may submit their articles as a Microsoft Word or PDF attachment to lawgjle@georgetown.edu. Authors are asked to provide a CV and an optional abstract with their submissions. Additionally, we prefer that citations in manuscripts appear in footnotes, not endnotes, and follow The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (20th ed. 2015).