This is to help ensure blind peer-review. When you submit your article on Scholastica, you will be asked to indicate any people who have seen or commented on this draft or previous drafts of your article (or with whom you have discussed your article in detail). (e.g., 'This work was carried out by student researchers at XYZ School of Law' if you are on faculty at XYZ.) This includes any mention of your name, institution, or special characteristics connected to you as an author.

Please ensure that no identifying information is included in your article. Please expect the review process to take around 10 weeks, depending on how quickly reviewers can be found. If you have submitted this article to any other English-language journal for review, you will be required to withdraw these other submissions to receive consideration.Īll submitted articles are subject to peer review. Guidelines for foreign citations can be found in Table 2 of the Bluebook.Īll submissions must be exclusive to The American Journal of Comparative Law. If an article is accepted for publication in the Journal, it will be the author's responsibility to ensure that all citations are in footnotes and conform in all respects to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation , 20th Edition. The Journal rarely publishes papers of more than 20,000 words or less than 10,000. Peer review processĪrticles should be between 10,000 and 20,000 words in length (including footnotes and endnotes). Submissions should be made online via Scholastica. Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has not been published elsewhere and that it is not under review for publication elsewhere. Please read the following policies carefully before submitting to maximize the chance of your article being accepted. Please be aware that due to the high number of submissions we receive, we expect that it will take around 18 months from the acceptance of a paper (after the peer review process is completed) to publication in a paper issue of the journal, although we expect to publish it online slightly sooner.

The American Journal of Comparative Law receives hundreds of submissions per year and accepts only six to eight percent for publication. Because of the volume of submissions, we do not ordinarily publish an article by an author who has published in the journal within the last three years.

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