For the 2007-2008 academic year, the Law and Society Journal at UCSB enters its seventh year of publication. After seven successful years, the Journal is back and is calling for submissions. The Journal will be published at the end of Spring Quarter 2008, and continues to seek submissions from undergraduates in all majors and disciplines at UCSB. 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 law and society. 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 UCSB are invited to submit entries to the Journal. Authors of submissions must have undergraduate standing at UCSB 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 in mid May, 2008. Therefore, it is imperative that the e-mail address provided on the Release Form submitted with your work be accurate and accessible.
After careful review of all submissions, the top three submissions to the Journal will be awarded with special recognition in the online publication for the Journal as well as with cash awards. First place award is $500, second place is $200, and third place is $100. The Journal reserves the right to alter the number of awards in each place category as it sees fit based on editorial staff consensus.