Did you just write a paper for a class during the Fall 2025 semester? If so, do more with it! You’ve worked all semester long on your paper and may have spent more time researching that topic than you did reading all the cases for that other class of yours. You may feel invigorated by the grade the paper received, but there’s more! You can submit your paper to law reviews and journals to try to get it published!
BYU Law provides up to $250.00 per student paper to support submissions for publication through the Scholastica submission system. (Learn more about Scholastica here.) To receive funding, complete the application through the BYU Law Writing Center (link to download the application here). The application requires you to have your supervising professor sign it. Then email it to me (Professor Hickman Pierson). Once your application is approved, I will add your name to the law school’s Scholastica account, and you will receive an email from Scholastica with instructions as to how to sign up using your law school email address.
If you are seeking to publish multiple papers, you must submit a separate application for each paper. For each approved application, you will receive up to $250.00 in funding for submission of that paper.
Note: Scholastica charges a set amount per paper submission–$7.45 starting on January 26, 2026. Since the law school will pay for only the first $250.00 of submissions, you will need to track your submissions, and once you have reached $250.00 “worth” of submissions, email me so that I can remove you from the law school’s Scholastica account. Any additional submissions for that paper must be paid for through your own account.
To learn more about the publishing process (when to submit to publish, where to submit, what else do you need to submit with your paper, etc.), visit the BYU Law Writing Center’s webpage (link here). Professor Catherine Bramble who created and runs the Center has provided helpful materials in all these areas.
If you have a question about or a problem with Scholastica, email me at HickmanA@law.byu.edu.