Submissions
The Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal is currently seeking submissions
of articles and translations for its upcoming volumes. The Journal welcomes the
submission of articles that focus on domestic law or policy in a Pacific Rim nation
or an issue of international or comparative law that relates to one or more Pacific
Rim nation. Of particular interest to the Journal are articles that make use of
foreign-language sources otherwise unavailable to English-language readers. The
Journal also welcomes the submission of English translations of Asian-language legal
materials and legal scholarship. Translations may be submitted in conjunction with
related commentary and analysis. Translations of scholarship must be accompanied
by the original author’s permission to reprint.
Guidelines
Articles should be written in typical law journal style: analytic, well-supported
with citations to authority, and of a length that allows for sufficient treatment
of the article's specific focus and some of the broader implications of the topic.
Articles published in the Journal are generally twenty to forty pages in length. Citations
should conform to A Uniform System of Citation (19th ed.), as well as to
the Journal’s Style Guide. Authors that submit to the Journal are typically
law students, lawyers or legal scholars, but the Journal considers all submissions
based on their quality rather than on their author’s credentials.
A submission must pass through a number of phases before it is published in the
Journal. First, the Journal’s article department determines whether the topic of
the piece is novel and within the Journal’s scope. Second, the Journal’s article
department reads those qualifying articles to evaluate the quality of the writing,
research, citations, and legal argument. If the piece passes through these two stages,
the author will be offered publication contingent on a successful peer review. The
piece is then sent to a panel of academics and practitioners with relevant expertise
to be read and critiqued. If the piece passes through peer review, the piece must
still be edited, cite checked, and formatted by the editors of the Journal prior
to publication. Authors accepting offers of publication in the Journal are expected
to provide copies of sources as necessary and to respond to editing requests promptly.
The entire process – from submission to publication – may take anywhere from three
to six months, depending on he time of year and the availability of space in upcoming
issues.
Email submissions (preferred) to:
Fax submissions to: (206) 685-4457
Mail submissions to:
Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal
University of Washington School of Law
William H. Gates Hall
Box 353020
Seattle, WA 98195-3020
attn: Executive Articles Editor