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Notes
for Contributors
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1. All article submissions and book review contributions should be word-processed,
double-spaced. Contributions must be provided in electronic form by email to the address tlteditorial@hartpub.co.uk or, in the case of book reviews, to tltbookreviews@hartpub.co.uk.
Contributions may be provided in any of the following software formats: Word, WordPerfect, or Rich Text Format. Two versions should be submitted: (a) a complete version with no redactions; and (b) a version redacted so that all references to the author's name, all autobiographical details, and all citations of the author's previous work have been removed.
2. Contributors' autobiographical details should appear as the first footnote of each
contribution, and include the name, institutional affiliation, current title and position
for each author. Per paragraph 1(b), this information should be removed from
one version of the submitted article.
3. A hardcopy may be supplied in addition to the electronic version wherever a
contribution contains graphs, tables, or any other significant formatting. The cover
note in the email conveying the electronic version should indicate that such hardcopy
has been mailed separately to: Professor Craig Scott, Convening Editor,
Transnational Legal Theory, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto,
Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada. The hardcopy should be double-spaced and printed on
letter paper (using one side of the page only).
4. In the case of articles, an abstract of not more than 150 words should be submitted
with the contribution.
5. Book reviews are generally commissioned by the journal's Book Review Editors,
who are currently François Tanguay-Renaud, Michael Giudice and Florian
Hoffmann. As such, book reviews may not be submitted before querying the Book
Review Editors as to whether they are interested in receiving such a submission.
Email: tltbookreviews@hartpub.co.uk
6. The optimal length for an article is 10,000-15,000 words (with footnotes), but
shorter submissions as well as submissions up to 25,000 words will be considered.
Book reviews may range from 1000 to 2500 words. Any work that falls into the
category of a "review essay" is categorized as an article not a book review.
7. The house style adopts OSCOLA (Oxford Standard Citation for Legal Authorities)
of the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford. OSCOLA can be downloaded at http://denning.law.ox.ac.uk/published/oscola.shtml. The OSCOLA
rules are currently the 2006 version; it is expected they will be updated in 2009 or 2010.
8. Transnational Legal Theory is refereed and employs a double-blind peer review procedure (i.e. manuscripts are rendered anonymous prior to review, and referees
are not identified to authors). Members of the Board of Editors serve as referees in
addition to scholars who are not editors of the journal. Transnational Legal Theory reserves the right to decline to send submissions out for review if the Editorial Committee determines either that the submission is clearly not of a sufficient standard or does not fit well with the journal's mandate.
9. Editorial evaluations consider both (a) scholarly excellence in light of referees' reports
and (b) publishing concerns related to such criteria as the need for a balance of
theoretical approaches, the degree of fit with the journal's mandate, and the journal's
prior acceptance of articles on similar topics.
10. Submissions to Transnational Legal Theory must be exclusive to Transnational Legal Theory: the journal does not accept multiple submissions. As well, the journal will not publish articles that have appeared previously or that will appear in other venues. The journal is, however, open to occasional publication of translations of articles that have previously only been published only in a language other than English and that the editors determine is a major article deserving wider readership. Prior to publication in Transnational Legal Theory, contributions may appear as working papers or in draft format online, in venues such as SSRN; however, once the contribution is published in Transnational Legal Theory, the online version must be removed and replaced with a reference to the Transnational Legal Theory publication and/or with such reference and an abstract.
11. Ordinarily, Transnational Legal Theory responds with its decision on acceptance or non-acceptance within eight weeks.
12. The Author warrants to the Publisher that the Contribution does not in any way infringe
an existing copyright, or confidence or any proprietary or other actionable rights and that
all reasonable precautions have been taken or will be taken to ensure that it contains no
libellous, defamatory or obscene material of an actionable character and that publication of
any information in the Contribution obtained while in the service of the Crown will not
contravene the Official Secrets Acts and that the Author is entitled as owner or prospective
owner of the copyright to authorise publication.
13. Copyright remains with the contributor, subject to the following contractual conditions: (a) once their Transnational Legal Theory contribution has been published, an author may not publish the same or substantially the same contribution as published in Transnational Legal Theory in any other journal or like context (e.g. a working paper series); (b) authors may use their Transnational Legal Theory contributions only in book publications jointly or solely authored by them or edited by them, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication and Hart Publishing is notified in writing in advance; (c) for use of contributions in any other venue, such as an anthology not edited by the author/s, Hart Publishing must give its agreement; (d) authors shall honour conditions set out in the next paragraph with respect to circulation of PDFs of their contribution; and (e), as a condition of publication, contributors grant exclusive licences to Hart Publishing to publish in all forms, whether hardcopy or electronic, and further grant corresponding licences permitting the publisher to administer all rights and permissions (i.e. grant sub-licences to third parties) in relation to Transnational Legal Theory contributions. Any income derived by the publisher from licences or sub-licences remains with the publisher.
14. Each author shall receive 25 hardcopy offprints of their contribution; others may be ordered for a fee. In addition, each author receives an offprint in PDF form, which PDF may be circulated by the author to selected colleagues (wherever located). The
author may also use their own contribution freely in their own teaching, including by providing students in their classes with PDFs of their contribution. The PDFs may not be posted online other than on a password-protected web page used solely by the author themselves for teaching purposes.
15. A parallel website will be launched in tandem with Transnational Legal Theory. Apart from providing information on the journal, this website -www.TransnationalLegalTheory.com - will have several functions, including: (a)
providing an academic-networking platform for scholars who are interested in the
field/s addressed by Transnational Legal Theory and who have created profiles on the website; (b) serving as a source of information for building up a pool of referees external to the Board of Editors as well as potential book review contributors; (c)
serving as a venue for announcements of conferences, symposia and like events in
fields addressed by Transnational Legal Theory; (d) providing a notice facility so that website members are informed by email of the release of a new issue of Transnational Legal Theory; and (e) providing a blog facility for members to publish comments, critiques, replies and similar short notes in relation to articles or book reviews that have been published in Transnational Legal Theory. It is expected that www.TransnationalLegalTheory.com will be partially launched by fall 2009 in order to permit interested persons to join and create their profiles before the launch of the first issue in Winter 2010.
16. For any questions not answered above, send queries to tltinfo@hartpub.co.uk.
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