Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Manuscript submission

Authors are willing to publish your submissions in the University of Bologna Law Review, they are required to:

• read the Editorial Policies
• follow our Publication Rules (see §2.2)
• submit your manuscript via email to bolognalawreview@unibo.it along with the required type (see §2.1) and metadata (see §2.3); via Scholastica or register and proceed with the Online Submission 

The Journal does not accept simultaneous submissions along with other Journals (except via Scholastica).

The Journal can not accept submissions from undergraduate students (i.e. "student at a university or college who is studying for his or her first degree" Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers ).

2. Publication rules

§ 2.1. Types

The submission must refer to the following types of manuscripts:

• Articles and Essays (manuscripts on broad and original aspect of legal phenomenon in national and/or international perspective or cutting-edge topics related to Legal Studies conducted by means of a clear and strong methodology and in-depth (inter)disciplinary research)
• Notes (short articles focusing on original and specific topics related to Legal Studies conducted by means of a clear and strong methodology and in-depth (inter)disciplinary research)
• Conference papers (research manuscripts or reports presented at academic panels)

The University of Bologna Law Review accepts for publication original and previously unpublished manuscripts, only.

§ 2.2. Format

The University of Bologna Law Review requests that Authors comply with the following standards of format and length of the submission:

• The submission must be written in correct British English language (American English may be considered in exceptional cases). Manuscripts in other languages are rejected.
• The submission must be (in length, footnotes excluded):
  • Articles and Essays (min. 7,500 - max. 40,000 words)
  • Notes (min. 2,500 - max. 7,500 words)
  • Conference Papers (max. 10,000 words)

  The Journal accepts footnotes, only. Endnotes are not accepted. The Bibliography must be inserted into footnotes: preferably, The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed.).

• The Journal may consider manuscripts exceeding the length of 40,000 words in case of outstanding pieces of scholarship.

• The submission must be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or Open Document Text document file format. Other format (e.g. PDF) are not accepted.

§ 2.3. Metadata

Your submission must also contain:

• The title
• Keywords (maximum 5)
• A short abstract of maximum 500 words (single spaced) in length
• JEL Codes (maximum 3) for manuscripts where an Economic perspective related to Legal Studies is being emphasized (optional)

In a separate file (Disclaimer): 

• Author's name and surname (for each author, in case of co-authorship)
• Current institutional role / professional activity (for each author, in case of co-authorship)
• An e-mail address (the corresponding author's email address, in case of co-authorship)
• Current institutional/professional affiliations (for each author, in case of co-authorship)
• A cover letter (optional)

Finally, Authors should also provide datasets, with every empirical submissions, which will be not included in the text of the manuscript. They may be submitted via email, together with the manuscript and the disclaimer. 

Submissions which do not comply with the Publication rules (2.2 and 2.3) will be promptly rejected by the Journal (Desk rejection).