Are you funny? Were you the life of the party in law school? Do you make your faculty colleagues or law firm partners laugh out loud? The Touro Law Review is planning a special issue on “Legal Humor” and seeks your work.
GUIDELINES
- We are looking for short pieces (maximum of 10 pages double-spaced) that take a humorous look at any aspect of the law, including law schools, the practice of law, or the courts.
- Pieces can take any form, including descriptive, expository, narrative, or technical. Poetry, screen writing, song writing, and other forms of creative writing are welcome as well.
- Law professors, lawyers, judges, and current law students are eligible to participate. Non-lawyers also are welcome to submit their work.
- Pieces are due by Tuesday, September 1, 2026, and should be e-mailed as a Word attachment to all three of the issue’s Faculty Coordinators:
Associate Dean Rodger D. Citron (Touro University): rcitron@touro.edu
Professor Rena C. Seplowitz (Touro University): rseplowi@touro.edu
Professor Robert M. Jarvis (Nova Southeastern University): jarvisb@nova.edu
- The Faculty Coordinators will review all pieces that are submitted by the deadline. Acceptance decisions will be sent out on or before December 1, 2026.
- It is expected that the accepted works will appear in Volume 41, Issue 5 of the Touro Law Review, which currently is set to be released by July 1, 2027.
- Please keep in mind: All pieces will be judged on their originality, novelty, and general appeal to a legal audience. Previously published pieces will not be accepted. Pieces that seriously examine the use of humor in legal matters or proceedings also will not be accepted. Only legal humor pieces will be considered.
- Questions? Please e-mail the Faculty Coordinators at the e-mail addresses listed above.
We look forward to laughing at your work!
This is such a brilliant idea!!! People tend to think of the law school experience as anything but funny. But a big reason that I was blessed to be as successful as I was in law school was that I had a lot of fun and laughs. Most days, law school was much closer to a Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis comedy bit than to One L.