Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD is delighted to issue this Call for Articles for Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD Volume 22 (Fall 2025). The deadline is September 1 for articles up to 15,000 words and essays up to 5,000 words on any topic that is related to legal communication or rhetoric, and primarily intended for our practitioner audience. 

LC&R's editorial board is committed to discipline-building and will gladly respond to pre-submission inquiries for early mission review or guidance in advance of the September submission deadline. If you would like guidance regarding a proposed article topic in the earlier stages of your drafting process, we invite you to submit a one paragraph expression of interest summarizing your proposed topic.  For more information, please review the Call for Articles available on our Submissions page.