Call For Papers For The King’s Student Law Review (KSLR), Volume XIV Issue I, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London [ISSN 2632 – 8186]: Submit By 24th November 2023

What Is KSLR?

The King’s Student Law Review (KSLR) is a peer-reviewed, academic publication run by researchers and postgraduate students based at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. They seek to publish the very best of legal scholarship written by students at King’s and other leading law schools. The KSLR is listed in the international database HeinOnline.

What Are The Details Of The Opportunity?

• Submission Category: If your submission is 1,500 words or less it maybe suitable for submission to our Forum –CLICK HERE.
  • Research Articles must be between 4,000 – 6,000 words excluding the footnotes (footnotes, whilst not limited, should not generally add more than a further 25%) and the abstract.
  • Case Notes must be between 2,000 – 4,000 words excluding the footnotes (footnotes, whilst not limited, should not generally add more than a further 25%) and the abstract.
  • Book reviews must be between 2,000 – 2,500 words excluding the footnotes (footnotes, whilst not limited, should not generally add more than a further 25%)
• Theme: Your article should be relevant to those studying or practising law in the UK and, in particular, to those based at King’s. This is a broad area, since King’s is a diverse institution with a global outlook; a list of subject areas is given below. It includes submissions on international law, EU law and human rights law, and comparative pieces focussed substantially on UK or EU law. We are, however, generally unable to accept submissions focussed mainly on non-UK/non-EU jurisdictions unless the piece has a substantial comparative element (Substantial would mean that similar depth of analysis was applied to the comparative element as to the jurisdiction of your interest.) Your article should fall within one of the following areas of law:
  • Business Law
  • Commercial Law
  • Comparative Law
  • Competition Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • Criminal Law
  • EU Law
  • Family Law
  • Financial Law
  • Human Rights Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Jurisprudence
  • Legal History
  • Legal Theory
  • Medical Law
  • Private International Law
  • Private Law
  • Property Law
  • Public and Constitutional Law
  • Public International Law
  • Tax Law
  • Tort Law
  • Legal History
  • Legal Philosophy (but we do not publish on moral and political philosophy that is only distantly related to law)
• Eligibility: They welcome submissions from:
  • PhD researchers,
  • Taught and research masters students,
  • Recent law graduates,
  • Junior lawyers working in legal practice,
  • Early career academics.
• Submission Process:
  • Email your submission as a Word document to kclstudentlawreview@gmail.com
  • Please include in the subject line your article’s title and your name.
  • Please state in your email where you are studying/working, and include a statement to the effect that the submission is all the work of the named authors, that you have any other authors’ permission to submit to us, and that the submission is not being considered by, nor has it been submitted to, any other journal.
  • Make sure that the email address you send your article from will be functional throughout 2023-2024.
  • In order to ensure the integrity of the blind review, your manuscript must not contain your name, university or any other means that can be used to identify you.
  • Please ensure that your submission is in the format of Microsoft Word (.doc) or (.docx). We do not accept PDFs.
• Submission Guidelines:
  • All articles must be written in UK English. Please spellcheck for UK (not US) English.
  • If UK English is not the author’s first language, please consider having the manuscript checked for use of English before submission.
  • All articles should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 150 words in length, identifying the focus of the article and summarising the contribution which it makes.
  • Referencing should conform to OSCOLA standards. A PDF guide to OSCOLA is available HERE.
  • Font should be Times New Roman, font size 12.
  • Case Notes must concern recent cases. (Recent would mean the decision was released within the past year.)
  • A Book Review should not merely summarise the contents of the book under review. Rather, a Book Review should offer a critique of the book under review and explain how the book under review is situated within the existing literature.
  • Your article should be of interest to the general reader who may not be an expert in the field of the article.
  • Please note that we do not publish work that has been previously submitted as as coursework or a dissertation. An exception may be made for genuinely new analysis or argument, but this is at the discretion of the Editorial Board. Undergraduate work is unlikely to meet this threshold.
  • We do not publish articles where the primary focus is a subject other than Law (eg. Sociology, Criminology, Politics, History, Economics etc).
• Last date of submission: 24th November 2023

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