The Intellectual Property and Technology Forum continually seeks written contributions from legal practitioners, professors, judges and students, relating to intellectual property and/or technology law.

The Forum's staff of Boston College Law students will work with prospective authors in the critique and editing of their submissions, as well as the fact-checking and cite-checking of longer articles.

For further details about submissions or to submit an article in electronic form, please contact our Editor in Chief at BCLaw-iptf at domain name: bc.edu (attached files in Microsoft Word format are preferred). Submissions may also be sent via U.S. mail (please include both a printed copy, and a floppy disk with your submission in Word 6.0/7.0 format or WordPerfect 5.1 format) to:

Frequently Asked Questions/Concerns (FAQ)

I have a section of a brief that I wouldn't mind expanding and submitting, but the effort involved in transforming the brief in to "a law review article" seems prohibitive.

Response: The Forum is willing to work with you in forming your submission. The Forum has both researchers to track down elusive references and editorial teams to check cites and provide subject matter overview.

I want to have a submission published, but I am concerned that it might not be the type of subject matter the Forum covers.

Response: The Forum is a widely ranging publication. In covering intellectual property and technology law, the Forum welcomes submissions not only on the subjects falling under both labels but also traditional (not 'technology-related') intellectual property as well as non-IP areas of technology law (such as data privacy, First Amendment concerns, conflict-of-laws and jurisdictional issues). If you are concerned that your submission may be too technical, remember that, although the number of users is increasing, most web users, particularly those who might find our Forum of interest, attain a fairly high level of technology proficiency.

How might a submission to the Intellectual Property and Technology Forum benefit me?

Response: Publication in any Journal can certainly enhance your standing in the field; either academic or practitioner. Publication on the Forum illustrates not only that you are able to make a scholarly contribution to the law, but that you have the savvy and technological awareness to take advantage of the powerful, dynamic medium of networked publishing.

I am worried that my submission may appear ill-considered once a ruling is rendered in a case presently before the court.

Response: All submissions are confidential within the Forum until posted. Posting will not take place without the author's consent. The submission can be edited extensively to reflect the latest developments. In the case of articles which have already been published, remember that electronic media, such as the Forum, make it easy for the author to publish rapidly an additional note explaining the effect of the new development on the author's work.