Submissions

This journal is not accepting submissions at this time.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Your submission has not been previously published. The Journal does not accept simultaneos submissions together with other Journals (except via Scholastica).
  • You claim to have read all the sections of the Author Guidelines. Submissions which do not comply with the Publication rules (2.2 and 2.3) will be promptly rejected by the Journal (Desk rejection).
  • You claim to have read the Editorial Process published on the website.
  • You claim to have read the Ethics Code published on the website
  • You claim to have read the Open Access Policy and the Copyright Notice published on the website
  • You claim to have read the Privacy Statement on the website

Author Guidelines

1. Manuscript submission process

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

The Journal accepts submissions during Call for Papers, only.

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 ).

Data Anonymization

To ensure the integrity of anonymous peer-review, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

  • The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.
  • The authors of the document have removed personal information from the file properties by taking the following steps:
    • Microsoft Word for Windows:
      • Go to File
      • Select Info
      • Click on Check for Issues
      • Click on Inspect Document
      • In the Document Inspector dialog box, select the check boxes to choose the type of hidden content that you want inspected.
      • Click Remove All
      • Click Close
      • Save the document
    • Microsoft Word for MacOS:
      • Go to Tools
      • Click Protect Document
      • Select Remove personal information for this file on save
      • Click OK and save the file
    • PDF:
      • Go to File
      • Select Properties
      • Remove any name in the author field
      • Click OK
      • Save the document

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 statement concerning any supporting agencies, source of research funding or other institutional support that facilitated the research;
  • A Competing Interest (CI) statement (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 preferably submitted via email or through OJS platform together with the manuscript and the disclaimer or upon request by the Editorial Office.  

Submissions which do not comply with the Publication rules (2.2 and 2.3) will be promptly rejected by the Journal (Desk rejection) and they may be re-submitted during the Call for Papers terms, only. 

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