LEAD ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS

Since 2004, the Journal of Health and Biomedical Law at Suffolk University Law School (JHBL) has published scholarly articles submitted by judges, law professors, practicing attorneys, doctors, healthcare policy experts, and other authorities in various fields of health and biomedical law.   Each academic year, JHBL publishes two to three issues in print copy and online.  JHBL welcomes all article submissions for review.  

Submitted Articles should be scholarly in style, contain insightful analysis, and have informed opinions of content of interest to the legal community, particularly the health law field.  That being said, JHBL seeks a diversity of subject matter and, on occasion, we will accept an article that focuses on issues from a broader social perspective rather than one that presents a more traditional style of legal analysis.

JHBL carefully considers each manuscript that we receive.  When JHBL receives an article submission, the Lead Articles Editor will carefully review it and make a tentative decision regarding the article’s publication quality.  After preliminary research about the author and the area of law that the article covers, the Lead Articles Editor, in conjunction with the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor, will decide whether to extend an offer of publication to the author.  If the author accepts, JHBL staff members will check the substantive and technical accuracy of the piece, as well as make grammatical and stylistic suggestions.  Although we extend deference to authors in stylistic matters, we cannot sacrifice the substantive and technical accuracy presented in the articles published by JHBL.