Ethical Guidelines
Authors
Authors shall submit only original manuscripts for publication.
Authors shall be diligent, timely, and honorable in soliciting and accepting publishing offers.
Authors shall not withdraw an accepted manuscript or fail to meet an agreed-upon deadline for submitting a manuscript or requested revision of a manuscript unless good cause exists.
Authors shall not take advantage of any official or unofficial position that they hold in their dealings with the Editorial Committee.
Authors shall attribute all material that is not original.
Authors shall take such steps as are necessary to permit the manuscript's sources to be verified.
Authors shall not distort any sources cited in the manuscript.
Authors shall not take undue credit for any manuscript.
Editors
The Editorial Committee shall be diligent, timely, and honorable in soliciting articles and extending offers to publish.
The Editorial Committee shall set and maintain reasonable and timely publication schedules.
Editors shall be competent, prompt, honorable, and diligent.
Editors shall meet agreed-upon deadlines. In circumstances when a particular deadline cannot be met, the editor must take steps to minimize the negative consequences.
Editors shall avoid conflicts of interest and the appearance of such conflicts. Because one of the goals of the Journal is to develop legal writing scholarship and to encourage legal writing scholars, editors should interact with and assist and guide authors and potential authors. An editor shall, however, decline to participate in the article selection process if he or she has a relationship with an author that might cast doubt on the fairness of the selection. Once an article has been selected, the editor may work with the author.
Editors shall edit manuscripts with diligence, fairness, and impartiality.
Editors shall communicate with authors in a reasonable manner throughout the editing process.