The Miami Law Institutional Repository is an open access Digital Commons repository maintained by the University of Miami Law Library. The repository is the primary institutional home for Miami Law faculty scholarship and research, and houses other collections including the output of the Miami Law journals and select institutional bodies.
If you are interested in having your scholarship added to the repository, please contact our repository administrator and Cataloging/Metadata Librarian, Margarita Perez Martinez.
SSRN is a repository of early-stage research papers from various disciplines characterized as "research networks." The Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) is home to many research paper series and scholarly papers in draft or pre-publication format. The stated objective of SSRN is to share early-stage research and connect scholars globally.
Please see the SSRN Terms of Use for a full statement of their copyright policy. While SSRN prior to the Elsevier acquisition had a focus on pre-prints, the repository now allows upload of any version of your work to which you have the rights or permissions to post.
By contributing your work to SSRN, you "grant Elsevier a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide, revocable license to use your content in connection with the Services, including, without limitation, the rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, print, allow others to print, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate, and reformat your digital and non-digital content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work." See the SSRN Terms of Use for a full statement of their license.
Please consult this detailed guide to paper submission. Please note that if you would like your papers to appear in the University of Miami School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series, you must selected this eJournal during submission. Detailed instructions for assigning your paper "Working" or "Accepted" status appear on page 10 of the detailed guide; instructions for adding your paper to an eJournal appear on page 11. If you encounter issues with this process, please contact Abby Deese.
We can request editing permissions for your postings from SSRN support. We can also provide one on one live troubleshooting and help you navigate making your own edits.