Welcome to Law and Policy Advances. The journal is newly-founded, having not yet even circulated its first call for papers, though we welcome your submissions.
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 limits of personal association, academic discipline 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.
Law and Policy Advances accepts articles appropriate to the purposes here described.
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.
Law and Policy Advances encourages all authors and reviewers to register a user name and to associate their work with their real name.
Steps in the Wiki Publishing Process
- Law and Policy Advances is an "open" journal. If you wish to bring an article you have written to the attention of 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 may draft your article in a wiki environment. See preliminary drafts.
- If and when you wish to submit your article for peer review, please use the Peer Review template.
- If you wish to write a peer review article of an article marked by the {{Law and Policy Advances}} template, you must mark your peer review article with the {{Law and Policy Advances}} template. Peer-review articles that review an article of Law and Policy Advances are themselves subject to peer review. See Law and Policy Advances:Instructions for reviewers.
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