The Journal of Legal Studies Education is published twice a year. The journal is a selective double-blind, peer reviewed publication focusing on pedagogical issues within business legal studies. Please review the “Information for Contributors or Submissions” below.

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Manuscripts for publication consideration are encouraged. Information for contributors may be obtained from the JLSE Editor-in-Chief, Dale Thompson at Dale.Thompson@alsb.org.

Author Guidelines / Information for Contributors

Manuscripts: The Journal does not accept previously published manuscripts or those that will be published elsewhere. Manuscripts may be sent simultaneously to other journals on the condition that the Journal is advised, and that the author(s) undertake to inform the edition immediately if the work is to be published elsewhere.

The Journal publishes refereed articles, teaching tips, and review of books, and other media. Manuscripts that relate to teaching, research and/or related disciplines such as business ethics, business and society, public policy and individual areas of business law-related specialties which are taught in the non-law schools are appropriate topics. The Journal will also consider short, but well-researched works covering “recent developments” in substantive areas taught by legal studies faculty.

The editorial board selects high quality manuscripts that are of interest to a substantial portion of the Journal’s readers. The editors look for innovative ideas, some element of novelty, good writing, evidence of literature survey where available, and compliance with A Uniform System of Citation, 21st edition, for footnote form.  Submissions are done electronically, in Microsoft Word format.  Authors may submit on the Scholastica platform (https://jlse.scholasticahq.com/for-authors).  Alternatively, submissions may be sent to jlsesubmission@alsb.org.  All submissions should include an abstract that includes at least one relevant word like “education,” “pedagogy,” “class,” or “teaching.”  Authors must remove all identifying information from the electronic submission attached file in order to assure blind review. If files do contain identifying information, authors will be requested to resubmit the file with the information redacted. All review of books, software and films should be sent to jlsesubmission@alsb.org.

Copy: All copy should be spaced either space-and-a-half or double-spaced. To permit blind refereeing, the manuscripts must not identify the author or the author’s institutional affiliation. A removable cover page should contain the title, the name, position, institutional affiliation, address, email address and telephone number of each author. The first page of the manuscript should contain the title.  Manuscripts will not be accepted for publication unless all footnotes and citations are in compliance with A Uniform System of Citation, 21st edition. The author is responsible for compliance with this system of citation and footnote accuracy. 

Additionally, the journal is now using Arabic numerals (e.g. “1.” in bold & small-caps for first-level heading, “2.1.” in bold and sentence-case for second-level heading, “2.1.1.” in sentence-case for level-three headings, and no-numbers but indented / italicized / sentence-case for level-four headings) for section headings instead of Roman numerals.  Please use this new numbering format for your submission.

Tables and Figures: Tables should be included in the manuscript with clear, self-explanatory headings and, if appropriate, the source at the bottom.

Action: Consideration of manuscripts is normally complete within eight weeks after receipt by the Journal. Authors are obliged to proofread the galley proofs. It is also the responsibility of authors to obtain permission to preprint copyrighted material and to pay any necessary fees. Permission forms are available from the editor. In case of coauthored works, the editor will correspond with the lead author. All authors must sign a copyright release.

Citations: The Journal is properly cited as J.LEGAL STUD. EDUC.

Note: The Journal of Legal Studies Education is indexed in the Current Law Index, The Legal Resources Index, and Legal Trac.