The International Journal of Law in Context welcomes proposals for special issues or themed sections of the journal. Special issue of themed section proposals must be submitted by June 30 of any year. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, proposals will only be considered shortly after that deadline. We encourage you to look at past issues to see examples published by the journal in the past. A special issue for this journal will typically contain a minimum of eight articles and an introduction but shorter themed collections within a standard issue are also acceptable. Anyone with a proposal of this kind should send it to ijlc@cambridge.org.

 

Your proposal should include:

• the title of the special issue or themed section
• the rationale for this proposal
• an overview of the collection
• the titles, authors and ideally an abstract for all proposed articles
• your expectations for word count
• when you expect all content to be ready to publish
• a confirmation that you understand you will be expected as Guest Editor to review and edit each contribution

 

All proposals will be reviewed by the Editors-in-Chief who also reserve the right to share with external reviewers.

 

Should your proposal to prepare a special issue or themed section be accepted, you will be allocated one of the Editors-in-Chief to correspond. As Guest Editor of the issue or section you will be expected to:

 

• work to a deadline which has been pre-agreed with the corresponding Editor-in-Chief
• keep the corresponding Editor-in-Chief informed of how work is progressing
• have each potential contribution double-anonymous peer reviewed by at least two independent reviewers
• share the reviews and articles with the corresponding Editor-in-Chief and pass on feedback from the Editor-in-Chief along with the reviewers to each author before they are asked to make revisions
• send substantially revised articles back to the original reviewers for comments
• send revised articles and any additional reviews to the corresponding Editor-in-Chief for final approval
• content edit each article and put it into house style
• ensure each article is complete including title, author name, abstract, all references complete
• submit only articles that are publishable and ready for production
• provide a final running order and check the issue proof

 

The Guest Editors are expected to apply the same rigorous peer review process as the journal applies to regular articles. The Editors-in-Chief reserve the right to choose not to publish all or some of the articles if they are not satisfied they meet the journal’s quality standards.