This is the main page for the Law and Policy Advances. The journal's title carries multiple meanings relevant to its purposes. As a categorical statement of fact, "law and policy advances" is optimistic beyond the point of naïveté. It is, however, sometimes true. Law and Policy Advances aims to make it more true by providing critical insights into areas of law and policy in need of advancement. The title is thus aspirational.
Further, Law and Policy Advances, though a scholarly journal in its own right, is also a platform for advance publication of works intended later to be published elsewhere. The wiki format is ideal for advance publication of working drafts. Authors are empowered to stake early claims to intellectual terrain they have newly charted and to share the bounty of that terrain even as it is further cultivated. Published drafts remain malleable, and the wiki format is wonderfully conducive to collaboration. With free global distribution and negligible barriers to participation, collaboration is unconstrained by the limits of personal association, academic disciplines and geography, and is relatively lightly constrained by the busyness of would-be collaborators. The wiki format is superior to that of traditional, typeset academic journals by virtue of: (1) its transparent peer-review process and (2) the ability to maintain living articles.
Please note:
If you are interested in republication of your article elsewhere, see the Instructions for Authors for information on the permissive copyright license applicable to this journal, which is intended to assure authors full credit and recognition for their work while enabling wide distribution, including through republication.
Any odd prose on this page or other any other introductory page to the journal is not the work of Law and Policy Advances' editors but rather part of a template over which they have little control.
Law and Policy Advances accepts articles appropriate to the purposes here described. The Law and Policy Advances also accepts review articles. These can be formal peer review articles or literature reviews of existing published articles or books. The Law and Policy Advances encourages all authors and reviewers to register a user name and associate their work with their real name.
Steps in the wiki publishing process
- The Law and Policy Advances is an "open" journal. If you wish to bring an article you have written to the attention of the Law and Policy Advances community, place the {{Law and Policy Advances}} template at the start of your article. For details, see the Instructions to authors.
- You can draft your article in a wiki environment. See preliminary drafts.
- When your article is ready for peer review, use the Peer Review template.
- If you wish to write a formal peer review article of an article marked by the {{Law and Policy Advances}} template, you must mark your formal peer review article with the {{Law and Policy Advances}} template. Formal peer review articles that review an article of the Law and Policy Advances are themselves subject to peer review. See Law and Policy Advances:Instructions for reviewers.
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