The Law and Society
Review is co-edited by Jeannine Bell, Susan Sterett, and Margot Young. Jeannine Bell is Richard S. Melvin Professor
at Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington and is a
nationally-recognized scholar in the areas of policing and hate crime. Her
research touches on political science and law.
Her newest book is Hate Thy
Neighbour: Move-in Violence and the Persistence of Racial Segregation in
American Housing (2013). Susan
Sterett is Professor of Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. She has written about constitutionalism as a
professional project, and law and social welfare. Most recently she has written about law,
disaster and governing people out of place, including in a 2015 article in Law and Policy. Margot Young is Professor at the Allard
School of Law at the University of British Columbia. She is published in the areas of
constitutional law, equality law and theory, and housing rights, and works actively
with a variety of equality-seeking and environmental justice
organizations. A recent co-editorship is
Reflections Of Canada: Illuminating our
Opportunities and Challenges at 150+ Years (2017).
By Susan Sterett
Law & Society Review Co-Editor
One thing I know for sure after having co-edited Law and Society Review for almost three years is that just about every college and university would like more publications from faculty members. Many colleges and universities around the world want people to write for peer-reviewed journals, so like other journals, Law and Society Review has been getting an increasing number of submissions. Some journals have big backlogs. Some journals have stopped accepting submissions. Everyone is overwhelmed with content. How can you prepare your paper for LSR? This post will point to a few resources that could help, based in my experience from editing, conversations with other editors, and my conversations at the wonderful 2017 sociolegal studies early career workshop at the University of Cape Town. All have made me rethink how I submit to journals.
A few thoughts, most of which are readily found on the internet. Even so, many people may no…
Law & Society Review Co-Editor
One thing I know for sure after having co-edited Law and Society Review for almost three years is that just about every college and university would like more publications from faculty members. Many colleges and universities around the world want people to write for peer-reviewed journals, so like other journals, Law and Society Review has been getting an increasing number of submissions. Some journals have big backlogs. Some journals have stopped accepting submissions. Everyone is overwhelmed with content. How can you prepare your paper for LSR? This post will point to a few resources that could help, based in my experience from editing, conversations with other editors, and my conversations at the wonderful 2017 sociolegal studies early career workshop at the University of Cape Town. All have made me rethink how I submit to journals.
A few thoughts, most of which are readily found on the internet. Even so, many people may no…