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Legalities: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Law and Society - call for papers

Legalities is the official journal of LSAANZ, and aims to be the premier journal for socio-legal studies in the region of Aotearoa, Australasia and the Global South. An international journal with a strong regional base, Legalities publishes contextually sensitive, theoretically informed, critically engaged and interdisciplinary socio-legal scholarship on topics such as law and society, legal geography, law and politics, criminology, law and economy, law and culture, legal history, feminist legal theory, critical race studies, critical legal theory, law and colonialism/imperialism, queer and transgender legal theory, environmental law, law and psychoanalysis, law and literature, law and social activism, animal law, law and education and other related fields of progressive socio-legal scholarship.

It was founded in 2020 and the first volume was published in June 2021. To submit to Legalities see the information on the website about contributing.

Call for papers

The Managing Editors of Legalities: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Law and Society call for submissions for a general issue of the journal to be published in the second half of 2022.

We are particularly interested in work that speaks to the context of Aotearoa, Australasia and the Global South.

We are also interested to publish contributions that depart from the traditional scholarly form, including interviews, dialogues, debates and a range of media (poetry, art, short stories, pensées, prose, and so on) that may touch upon law and law related subjects.

Submissions: Legalities accepts the following three main forms of submission:

  • Journal articles: on topics in law and related fields that are contextually sensitive, theoretically informed and driven by critique (10,000 words maximum inclusive of references and endnotes).

  • Interventions pieces: short thought pieces (5000 words maximum inclusive of references and endnotes) on significant and current issue(s) in law and related fields.

  • Book reviews: we welcome reviews of books and other media. Book reviews are in the range of 750-1000 words.

Managing Editors: Associate Professor Carwyn Jones (Te Wānanga o Raukawa, New Zealand); Associate Professor Trish Luker (University of Technology Sydney), Professor John Page (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Senior Editorial Consultant: Professor William MacNeil (Southern Cross University)

Please direct inquiries to the editors at legalities@scu.edu.au

A Style Guide is available here.

All submissions should be emailed as a Word attachment to the Managing Editors at legalities@scu.edu.au

Further information about Legalities, including information about previous issues, is available here.

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