The Canadian Journal of Law and Society is pleased to announce that it has a new home and editorial board. As of January 2008, the Journal is housed in the Law Department at Carleton University. Michel Coutu and Mariana Valverde are the Journal’s new co-editors (in French and English respectively) and Dawn Moore is now serving as the Journal’s Managing Editor. As always, the journal is committed to publishing high caliber, original academic work in the field of law and society scholarship. CJLS/RCDS has wide circulation and an international reputation for showcasing quality scholarship that speaks to both theoretical and empirical issues in sociolegal studies. We invite original submissions in either French or English. The Journal is published twice yearly.

The index to articles, comments, and review essays of Volumes 1-12 appears in Volume 12 no. 2 (1997). Contents and abstracts of all issues published since 1994 are displayed on this website. CJLS/RCDS publishes two issues per yearly volume with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the office of the Vice-President, Research, the Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs and the Department of Law, Carleton University.

ISSN: 0829-3201
ISSN 1911-0227(Online)


Co-Editors:
Mariana Valverde (University of Toronto)
m.valverde@utoronto.ca

Michel Coutu (University of Montreal)
michel.coutu@umontreal.ca

Managing Editor:
Dawn Moore
dawn_moore@carleton.ca

Editorial Board
Judy Fudge - University of Victoria
Caroline Gendreau - University of Montreal
Sheryl Hamilton - Carleton University
Nicholas Kasirer - McGill University
Robert Leckey - McGill University

Renisa Mawani - University of British Columbia
Richard Weisman - York University
Christiane Wilke - Carleton University

Editorial Assistant
Susan Gemmell
lgemmell@connect.carleton.ca

English Book Reviews Editor
Christiane Wilke
cwilke@connect.carleton.ca

French Book Reviews Editor
Caroline Gendreau
caroline.gendreau@umontreal.ca

For Rights and Permissions inquiries please contact the editor at the address at the bottom of the page.

Editorial Address:
Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne du Droit et Sociétié
Department of Law
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Dr.
K1S 5B6
Phone: (613) 520-2600 x 2966

E-mail: cjls_rcds@carleton.ca



Past Editors
1999-2007 Ruth Murbach, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Law, (UQAM)
1997-1999 Marie-Andrée Bertrand, Criminology, University of Montreal
1996-1999 René Côté, Managing Editor, Law, UQAM
1996-1997 Roderick A. Macdonald, Law, McGill University
1990-1995 Claude Thomasset, Emeritus Director, Law, UQAM
1986-1990 Rainer Knopff, Founder, Political science, University of Calgary



CJLS Submission Guidelines

Articles: Authors interested in publishing an article in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society should submit an electronic version or four paper copies of their manuscript. The text should not exceed 35 pages (10,000 words), double-spaced, including notes and appendices, and should present an abstract. For citation purposes, the Journal has adopted the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (5th edition) published by Carswell.

Each manuscript is first read by the Editor to determine its admissibility. It is then submitted anonymously to at least three external reviewers, from different disciplines, whose reports are taken into consideration by the Editor in the decision and the modifications eventually asked for. The referees' reports, which also remain anonymous, are transmitted to the author together with the editorial decision. The evaluation procedure takes at least four months. Once the manuscript is accepted, the author should send to the Journal the final version of the article, following the editorial guidelines; the article can be sent on CD, disk or as e-mail attachment, in any case along with a paper copy. Please note that the Journal does not accept to evaluate nor to publish articles that have been submitted concurrently to other journals or have already been published. Submitted manuscripts are not returned to the authors.

The Journal publishes two issues per year. Some are thematic.

Book Reviews: The Canadian Journal of Law and Society carries three sorts of book reviews: Book Notes are short (under one page in print) and largely descriptive; Book Reviews are of moderate length (under four pages), largely confined to a discussion of the book in question, though with some analytical content and a relatively developed critique; Review Essays are longer (ten pages or more) and involve a more extended analysis as well as an attempt to locate the book in the broader context of the extant literature. They approach the essay/short article, albeit with a focus on a particular book or books.

Book reviews and book notes are evaluated by the Book Review Editor. Review essays under 20 pages are accepted on the decision of two members of the Editorial Board. Longer review essays follow the normal refereeing process.

Advertising Rates

Full page (4+ X 7 5/8) $330
Half page (4+ X 3+) $190


Indexing/Abstracting

The Journal is indexed in:
Canadian Periodical Index
Corpus Almanac & Canadian Sourcebook
Criminal Justice Abstract
Current Legal Sociology
Dustbooks/The International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses
Felix Dietrich Verlag GmbH & Co KG, IBZ—Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur aus allen Wissensgebieten
IBSS - International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (London)
Index to Canadian Legal Periodical Literature
Index to Legal Periodicals
Oxbridge Data Center
Novaya Literatura po Sotsialistnym i gumanitarnym naukam, Gosudarstvo i Pravo (New Literature in the Social and Humanitarian Sciences, Government and Truth)
Sociological Abstract
Standard Periodical Directory
Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory
WESTLAW
HeinOnline

 


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