The 2008-2009 academic year marks the Law and Society Journal at UCSB's eighth year of publication. However it also marks the first year since its establishment that the Law and Society Journal opens its doors to all undergraduate students at every University of California campus.
The Law and Society Journal at UCSB opens its call for papers for the 8th annual publication and invites every University of California undergraduate to join the University of California Cross-Campus Dialogue on Intimate Justice and the Law.
The Journal will be published at the end of Spring Quarter 2009, and continues to seek submissions from undergraduates in all majors and disciplines at all University of California campuses.
Possible genres include but are not limited to: reviews, predictive/solution pieces, photo essays, ethnographies, political/legal cartoons, editorials, and responses to past Journal articles. Possible topics are endless as long as your work is tailored to issues pertaining to intimate justice and the law. We strongly encourage submissions that highlight new topics in the field that would bring law and society into the realm of many disciplines.
Be sure to read the following for all details regarding deadlines and submission criteria.
Students from all undergraduate majors at all University of California campuses are invited to submit entries to the University of California-Cross Campus Dialogue. Authors of submissions must have undergraduate standing at a University of California at the time the submission was written. Publication in the Law and Society Journal at UCSB does not inhibit an author’s submission to concurrent or future publication elsewhere, nor are previously published works ineligible for publication in the Journal (providing the said prior publication is not bound by copyright restrictions). Work may be submitted up to one school calendar year after the author’s date of graduation.
The Law and Society Journal at UCSB requests that contributors comply with the following standards:
The Journal carefully considers all submissions that it receives. Your pieces identify you only by perm number. Your name is separated from your Release Form by the Chief Editors upon submission. Your work will thus be presented as anonymous to our editors, without regard to the author’s name, major, political affiliation, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, handicap, age, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, prior publication history, or pending publication offers. Undergraduate standing at the time of authorship must be the unifying characteristic of all authors
Our selection process has many steps: At least two editors review each submission, and many pieces go through a substantially deeper review. In the final stages of our review, many pieces will have been read and debated multiple times, by more than a dozen editors. The number of pieces we publish usually varies from 5 to 10.
Authors of all submissions chosen for publication in the Journal will be notified by e-mail mid-April of 2009. Therefore, it is imperative that the e-mail address provided on the Release Form submitted with your work be accurate and accessible.