Sociología Jurídica en América Latina

The Law and Society Review seeks proposals for themed symposia to appear in volumes 54-56, which will appear in print between 2020 and 2022. Symposia will feature 3-5 articles clustered around a shared theme, and will be edited by guest editors. Editors may work alone or in teams.  Proposals should come from scholars who wish to serve as symposium editors. Proposals will be selected on a competitive basis.

The Review is open to a variety of themes within law and society scholarship and substantive areas of focus.  Criteria for evaluation will include the significance and potential impact of the collected scholarship, innovation in subject matter or method, and collaborations that seek to include early-career scholars and members of groups underrepresented in the academy.

About the Law and Society Review

Law and Society Review is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal publishing work bearing on the relationships between society and law, legal processes, and legal phenomena. Articles in the Review are engaged with and motivated by theory and draw on any of the diverse methodological approaches from the social sciences broadly construed.

About peer review for symposia articles

All submitted manuscripts will go through double-blind peer review, with reviewers chosen by symposium editors in consultation with the Editorial Board of the Review. The guest editors, in consultation with the Review’s Editorial Board, will determine the acceptance of manuscripts for publication in the symposium. An invitation to prepare a symposium does not constitute a guarantee of publication of either the symposium or of the individual articles submitted in connection with it.

Peer review is a time-consuming process. Few papers eventually published in the Review are accepted at initial submission. Most articles published have been “revised and resubmitted”: sent back to the journal for a second round of peer review after authors revised their initial submission in response to comments and questions from a first group of anonymous reviewers. Symposium editors should start early, plan well ahead and expect 18-24 months to pass between initial receipt of manuscripts for review and eventual publication.

Submitting a symposium proposal

Proposals should be 2-4 pages in length and should address the following:

1. The theme of the symposium and a proposed title
2. Why the theme is significant and important
3. Why a symposium focusing on the theme is necessary or likely to have
   substantial impact
4. Who will edit the symposium and their qualifications to do so
5. How authors and articles will be selected to submit to the symposium: by
   invitation, through an open call, or a combination of the two
6. A list of potential authors and/or articles

 

Please direct any questions to Rebecca L. Sandefur, Editor (volumes 54-56), sandefur@illinois.edu.  For consideration, proposals should be submitted by December 31, 2018 to sandefur@illinois.edu.