Call for Papers! International Journal for the Semiotics of Law! TOC AUGUST 2023!

Volume 36, issue 4, August 2023
Special Issues:

Vulnerability and Law (Guest Editors: Vincenzo Lorubbio and Mariano Longo)

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Legal Languages and Legal Communication (Guest Editor: Halina Sierocka)

Aims and scope

The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law is the leading international journal in Legal Semiotics worldwide.

We are pathfinders in mapping the contours of Legal Semiotics.

We provide a high quality blind peer-reviewing process to all the papers via our online submission platform with well-established expert reviewers from all over the world. Our boards reflect this vision and mission.

We welcome submissions in English or in French.

We bridge different fields of expertise to allow a percolation of experience and a sharing of this advanced knowledge from individual, collective and/or institutional fields of competence.

We publish original and high quality papers that should ideally critique, apply or otherwise engage with semiotics or related theory and models of analyses, or with rhetoric, history of political and legal discourses, philosophy of language, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, deconstruction and all types of semiotics analyses including visual semiotics. We also welcome submissions, which reflect on legal philosophy or legal theory, hermeneutics, the relation between psychoanalysis and language, the intersection between law and literature, as well as the relation between law and aesthetics.

We encourage researchers to submit proposals for Special Issues so as to promote their research projects. Submissions should be sent to the EIC.

We aim at publishing Online First to decrease publication delays, and give the possibility to select Open Choice.

Our goal is to identify, promote and publish interdisciplinary and innovative research papers in legal semiotics.

Instructions for Authors

Editorial procedure

Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. This means that the author will remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout peer review. It is the responsibility of the author to anonymize the manuscript and any associated materials.

Author names, affiliations and any other potentially identifying information should be removed from the manuscript text and any accompanying files (such as figures of supplementary material);
A separate Title Page should be submitted, containing title, author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page;
Authors should avoid citing their own work in a way that could reveal their identity.

This journal also publishes special/guest-edited issues. The peer review process for these articles is the same as the peer review process of the journal in general.

Additionally, if a guest editor authors an article in their issue/collection, they will not handle the peer review process.

Manuscript Submission

Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Permissions

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Online Submission

Please follow the hyperlink “Submit manuscript” and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.

Source Files

Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files at every submission and revision. Failing to submit a complete set of editable source files will result in your article not being considered for review. For your manuscript text please always submit in common word processing formats such as .docx or LaTeX.

Types of Paper

Original Papers : Original papers should ideally critique, apply or otherwise engage with semiotics or related theory and models of analyses, or with rhetoric, history of political and legal discourses, philosophy of language, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, deconstruction and all types of semiotics analyses including visual semiotics. Original papers could also reflect on legal philosophy or legal theory, hermeneutics, the relation between psychoanalysis and language, the intersection between law and literature, as well as the relation between law and aesthetics.

Review Essays: Review Essays denote an authoritative, balance, and scholarly survey aimed at informing a broader readership of developments in a field in which there have been recent, important advances. The requirement for balance need not prevent authors from proposing specific viewpoints, but if there are controversies in the field, the author(s) must treat them in an even-handed way. Language should be simple, novel concepts defined and specialist terminology explained.