期刊名称：LAW AND SOCIAL INQUIRY-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Law & Social Inquiry (LSI) is a multidisciplinary quarterly that publishes original research articles and wide-ranging review essays that contribute to the understanding of socio-legal processes. Law & Social Inquiry's combination of empirical and theoretical research with critique and appraisal of the socio-legal field make the journal an indispensable source for the latest research and commentary. Law & Social Inquiry's ambit spans law and sociology, economics, political science, social psychology, history, philosophy and other social science and humanities disciplines. The journal publishes a remarkable range of scholarship on specific topics in law and society, including but not limited to law, legal institutions, the legal profession, and legal processes.
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Instructions to Authors
PUBLICATION POLICY
Law & Social Inquiry is the Journal of The American Bar Foundation (http://www.abfn.org/). The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is an independent research institute committed to socio-legal research. Consistent with the Foundation's mandate to create and disseminate knowledge about law and legal systems, broadly understood, Law & Social Inquiry invites the submission of manuscripts that make original contributions to the understanding of law and socio-legal processes. Law & Social Inquiry publishes both empirical and theoretical studies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The analyses, conclusions, and opinions are those of the authors alone.
Law & Social Inquiry is a refereed journal. Manuscripts that the Editors deem appropriate for the journal are evaluated by two or more reviewers with expertise in the relevant subject matter and methodology. Manuscripts produced by ABF Research Fellows are evaluated by the same process as outside manuscripts and are not accorded priority in publication. The review process is anonymous.
Guidelines for Submitting Manuscripts:
Articles
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as e-mail attachments in MS Word or Corel WordPerfect to the Editorial Coordinator at:
lsi-abf@abfn.org
If you have any questions on manuscript submission, please call 312-988-6517.
Law & Social Inquiry does not accept multiply-submitted articles. In your cover e-mail, please verify that your manuscript is a sole submission to Law & Social Inquiry.
The Editors endeavor to make decisions promptly, usually within 12-15 weeks of submission.
Papers in excess of 80 pages (20,000 words), inclusive of footnotes, will be considered only in exceptional circumstances; their importance must justify the additional space required. The editors reserve the right to reject without review manuscripts that are substantially longer than typical articles.
Review Essays
Inquiries about review essays should be submitted to:
Howard Erlanger
Review Section Editor
erlanger@ssc.wisc.edu
Law & Social Inquiry does not publish traditional book reviews.
INITIAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Initial Manuscript Submission
Initial submissions need not be in full conformity with the LSI style guide, but must conform to the following requirements:
Formatting:
Please format your manuscript as follows:
Remove any identifying information from the manuscript. Author information belongs only on a separate title page (see below).
The abstract, consisting of 150 words or less, should appear alone on the first page
All material, including indented quotations, tables, footnotes, and references should be DOUBLE-SPACED
Use Times New Roman, 12 pt
Use 1.5 margins on all sides
Pages should be numbered
Remove any embedded information: headers, footers, footnotes, etc.
A title page should be sent as a separate document. Please include:
The full title of the essay
Name(s) of author(s); if there is more than one author, please indicate which author is the contact person
E-mail and full mailing/postal address, telephone and fax numbers for all authors
A biographical statement for each author
Grant numbers (if applicable)
Author acknowledgements (if desired)
Page and word count for the manuscript
N.B. In addition, in the case of Review Section Essays:
In the subtitle to the essay, please include some direct or indirect reference to the author(s) or book(s) under review
Include a complete citation of the book(s) under review
ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTS GUIDELINES
For a downloadable style guide document, please click here.
Please format your manuscript as follows:
TITLE PAGE - should be the first page of the manuscript. Please include:
The full title of the essay.
Name(s) of author(s); if there is more than one author, please indicate which author is contact person.
Do not use any footnote/endnote numbering on this page, i.e., next to authors' names.
E-mail and full mailing/postal address, telephone and fax numbers for all authors.
A biographical statement for each author. Include preferred contact information in each bio (e-mail address, departmental mailing address, etc.).
Grant numbers (if applicable).
Author acknowledgements (if desired).
ABSTRACT - should be 150 words or less, and appear alone on the second page.
FORMATTING:
All material, including bios, abstract, indented quotations, footnotes, references, and cases cited should be DOUBLE-SPACED and in TIMES NEW ROMAN 12 FONT.
Use 1.5-inch margins on all sides.
Pages should be numbered.
Remove any embedded information: headers, footers, footnotes, etc.
Endnotes rather than footnotes are to be used.
Tables, Figures, and Figure captions should appear at the end of the document, not as separate documents. It is preferred, though not necessary, if tables are created in Word.
Text Citations:
Law & Social Inquiry uses the author/date citation system, as described in The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition, which includes the following. Text citations should include the last name of the author(s), the year of publication, and a page number or page interval (when appropriate), with a comma separating the page number from the rest of the citation. Citations to directly-quoted texts should always include page numbers or other information identifying the quoted material. Less specific citations may include page or page-range information at the author's discretion; authors are strongly advised to credit all sources used as specifically as the use warrants. Multiple citations should be separated by a semi-colon. The first citation of a piece with three authors should list the names of all three; for subsequent citations use "et al." for all but the first author. For items with four or more authors, always use "et al." for all but the first author.
(Cohen and Varat 1997, 181; Lockhart et al. 1991, 253, 344)
(Foner 1998; Trelease 1971; Thomas 1973; Benedict 1974a)
Citations should appear in parenthesis in the body of the text following the material to which they refer. Notes should not be used to provide citations but should be reserved for explaining or amplifying matters discussed in the main body of the text. Authors are discouraged from using figures or lengthy tabulations in notes.
Endnotes:
Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, the author must use endnotes (social sciences format) rather than footnotes (law review format). To switch easily from one to the other format, Blackwell Publishing recommends the following: in an open Word document, go to Insert -- Reference - Footnote, then select "Endnote." Endnotes should never be imbedded.
References:
All references cited in the text must be listed in the reference list and vice versa. It is the author(s) responsibility to verify spelling and punctuation. The LSI editorial staff, Blackwell Publishing staff, the copyeditor, and the proofreader do not check references for accuracy.
List references in alphabetical order by authors' last names. Unless the author used first name initials in the original publication, supply the full names. In cases of multiple authorship, the name of the first author is inverted, but those of additional authors are not.
Two or more references by the same author should be listed in the order of the year of publication (older references first), with six hyphens (------) in place of the author's name when the authorship is the same as the preceding citation. References to multiple publications by a single author or group of authors appearing in the same year should be distinguished by adding letters (a, b, c, etc.) to the year. Such publications are then listed in alphabetical order by title.
Books: titles are italicized, publisher information it not.
Minow, Martha. 1990. Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Foucault, Michel. 1977. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Pantheon Books.
Periodicals: name of periodical is italicized, title of article is not. A journal symposium without an issue editor is listed under the name of the journal.
Macaulay, Stewart. 1963. Non-contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study. American Journal of Sociology 28:55-67.
Schoonmaker, Mary Ellen. 1996. Is There Life After Layoff? Five Stories. Columbia Journalism Review May/June, 48-51.
Law and Society Review. 1994. Special Issue: Law and Society in Southeast Asia. Law and Society Review 28:413-720.
Collections: When listing a chapter from an anthology, the title of the anthology is italicized, the chapter is not.
Mitchell, Lawrence E. 1995. Corporate Nature Versus Human Nature? In Law and Economics: New and Critical Perspectives, ed. Robin Paul Malloy and Christopher K. Braun. New York: Peter Lang Publishers.
Web Address: When referencing a Web address include "Last Accessed appropriate date," inserting the last date site was accessed by author(s).
Dissertations: nothing is italicized.
Brandwein, Pamela Teal. 1994. Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Knowledge. Ph.D. diss. Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Statutes and Cases Cited:
Statutes and cases should be included only when discussion of cases or statutes makes up a big part of the substance of the article. Include a list of cases after the references, titled "Cases Cited." When only a few cases or statutes are cited, give appropriate information in the text or in the notes.
For cases, provide enough information so that someone else can locate the original text of an opinion. Therefore, the citation should include the volume number, the usual Blue Book abbreviated name of the reporter or other volume where cases are reported, and the first page number in the case report.
In some cases the court also must be indicated, as with appellate courts.
For statutes, the object is to supply enough information to enable someone else to locate what the author located. Specific recommendations are given in the Blue Book for each jurisdiction. For most state statutes, the relevant information is the year, the statute's title, and the first page in the annual complication of the session laws for the statute.
Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14 Stat. 27.
Commonwealth v. Aves, Pickering (Mass.) 193 (1936).
In re Turner, 24 Fed. Cas. 339 (no. 14,247)(C.C.D. Md. 1867)
National Bank v. Commonwealth [of Kentucky], 76 U.S. (9 Wall.) 353 (1870)
Appendices
If an appendix is primarily textual or mathematical, the text may follow the regular text in the document. If an appendix is tabular, place it in a separate document.
Tables
Number tables consecutively throughout the body of the manuscript. All tables must be cited in the text. Indicate in the text approximately where each table should be included. The text of the tables must not be embedded within the manuscript. Tables should be placed at the end of the document.
Figures
Number figures consecutively throughout the body of the manuscript. All figures must be cited in the text. Indicate in the text approximately where each figure should be included. Figures should be placed at the end of the document. See http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/illustration.asp for detailed information on preparing your figures for publication.
Photos
Photos should be sent as individual files. The files should be named in a way that makes them easy to identify, such as "Author Last Name Photo 1."
Permissions
Authors are responsible for and must obtain permission to include published or unpublished materials from other sources before a manuscript can begin the LSI production process. Proof of permission must be submitted to LSI.
Editing of Manuscripts
All manuscripts accepted for publication are submitted to Blackwell Publishing and edited for style by a professional copyeditor in consultation with the author. Blackwell provides only minimal copyediting of the final version of the manuscript. When submitting final copy, check expression, grammar and spelling, and verify that the references cited in the text are consistent with those in the reference list. The essay author bears responsibility for the quality of the presentation and the accuracy of citations and other material. Authors have the opportunity to review the copyedited version and final galleys, but it is costly to make substantive changes at those times.
Proofs
The corresponding author will receive an e-mail alert containing a link to a web site. A working e-mail address must therefore be provided by the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat Adobe Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded, free of charge, from the following website: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen, and printed out. Further instructions will be sent by Blackwell with the proof.
Copyright Assignment
Before accepted manuscripts can proceed to publication in Law and Social Inquiry, the ownership of copyright must be established. Authors of accepted manuscripts will be required to assign copyright in the article to the American Bar Foundation. By "article" we mean all material submitted for publication with the exception of letters, and includes the text, figures, tables, author contact details and all supplementary material accompanying the article. A copyright assignment form will be sent to each author when a manuscript is accepted for publication. Alternatively, authors may download a copy of the form here. Assignment of copyright is a condition of publication. We regret that an article cannot proceed to publication in Law and Social Inquiry unless a Copyright Assignment Form has been signed and received.
Please note: Under Law and Social Inquiry's copyright assignment terms, authors retain rights to re-use their published work. Thus, provided that appropriate acknowledgement is given to the journal, the American Bar Foundation and Blackwell Publishing, together with full bibliographic reference for the article as published, authors may use all or part of the article and abstract, without revision or modification, in personal compilations or other publications of their own work. Authors may not sell or reproduce the article or any part of it for commercial purposes (i.e. for monetary gain on the author's own account or on that of a third party, or for indirect financial gain by a commercial entity). All requests by third parties to re-use an author's article in whole or in part will be handled by Blackwell Publishing. Any permission fees will be retained by the journal. All requests to adapt substantial parts of the article in another publication (including publication by Blackwell Publishing) will be subject to the author's approval (deemed to be granted after four weeks).
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Editorial Board
Editor
Christopher Tomlins
American Bar Foundation
750 N. Lake Shore Drive
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
USA
clt@abfn.org
Review Section Editor
Howard S. Erlanger
Institute for Legal Studies
Law School
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
USA
erlanger@ssc.wisc.edu
Associate Editors
Bonnie Honig
Joanne Martin
Tracey Meares
Editorial Coordinator
Lila M. Stromer
lsi-abf@abfn.org
Editorial Board
Richard Brooks, Law and Economics, Yale University
Ronit Dinovitzer, Sociology, University of Toronto
Phoebe Ellsworth, Psychology, University of Michigan
David Engel, Law, New York University
William Forbath, Law and History, University of Texas School of Law
David Garland, Sociology, New York University
Robert W. Gordon, History, Yale Law School, Yale University
Joel Grossman, Political Science and Law, Johns Hopkins University
Gillian Hadfied, Law and Economics, University of Southern Calfornia
Christine Harrington, Political Science, New York University School of Law
Milton Heumann, Sociology, Political Science, Rutgers University
Wolf Heydebrand, Sociology, New York University
John Kelly, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Heinz Klug, Law, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lewis A. Kornhauser, Economics, New York University School of Law
Edward O. Laumann, Sociology, University of Chicago
Robert MacCoun, Law and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Anne M. Piehl, Economics and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
Robert Post, Law, Yale Law School, Yale University
Annelise Riles, International Law, Cornell University
Mary Rose, Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
Rebecca L. Sandfur, Sociology, Stanford University
Ann Southworth, Law, Case Western Reserve
David Tanenhaus, History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Mariana Valverde, Criminology, University of Toronto
Barbara Yngvesson, Anthropology, Hampshire College
Albert H. Yoon, Law, Northwestern University
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