Submissions

The aim of Crit­ical Legal Think­ing (CLT) is to provide a plat­form for crit­ical legal schol­ars and allied thinkers to pub­lish the­or­et­ic­ally informed com­ment and ana­lysis on cur­rent events. Our primary tar­get read­er­ship is the gen­eral public.

We are a hori­zont­ally struc­tured col­lect­ive work­ing in the pub­lic interest. Instead of a man­aging editor and board, we com­prise sev­eral facil­it­at­ors who stay in the back­ground. We share the con­vic­tion that (Legal) critique is the com­pan­ion and guide of rad­ical change.

Since CLT’s launch in its cur­rent form in Septem­ber 2010, we have received over four-​hundred thou­sand vis­it­ors and have become part of the Guard­ian Com­ment Net­work, which enables The Guard­ian to pub­lish up to two of our art­icles per month on their website.

We invite authors to sub­mit contributions/​articles that take into con­sid­er­a­tion the fol­low­ing guidelines:

1) Art­icles should be a con­cise 800‑2000 words, but can be more if the mater­ial abso­lutely war­rants it.
2) Art­icles should be writ­ten in a man­ner that is access­ible to the non-​specialist gen­eral pub­lic, which means, amongst other things, explain­ing terms of art when appropriate.
3) Art­icles should clearly relate to cur­rent events, whether polit­ical, legal, social, cul­tural or theoretical.
4) Art­icles should be the­or­et­ic­ally informed and crit­ical. We min­im­ally under­stand cri­tique as the chal­len­ging of ortho­doxy, ideo­logy and sys­temic injustice, while also recog­nising that it can be much more than this.
5) The text should include hyper­links to rel­ev­ant mater­ial where appropriate.
6) Foot­notes should be restric­ted to the min­imum neces­sary, unlike an aca­demic journal.
7) We don’t mind UK, US and other stand­ard spelling vari­ants, con­sist­ently used.

Addi­tional Information

We recog­nise the wealth of ideas not writ­ten in Eng­lish and will con­sider work­ing with an author to arrange trans­la­tion, depend­ing on our resources and capa­cit­ies. All art­icles are pub­lished sub­ject to a cre­at­ive com­mons licence (CC BY-​NC-​SA 3.0). This means, inter alia, that sub­mis­sions to this site may be freely repub­lished by oth­ers with due attri­bu­tion. More details are avail­able here.

Please use the sub­mis­sion form below to send us your:

i) art­icle in doc, docx, or rtf format. Please include your pref­er­ence, if any, for one or more accom­pa­ny­ing images by embed­ding it/​them within the document;
ii) short biography.

If you have not heard from us within 14 days, please assume that we have decided not to pur­sue pub­lic­a­tion. Unfor­tu­nately, due to time con­straints, we can­not com­mit to offer­ing feed­back. We thank you for your understanding.

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