The Manitoba Law Journal in conjunction with Robsoncrim.com are pleased to announce our annual call for papers in Criminal Law. We seek submissions related to criminal law, criminology and criminal justice and cognate disciplines in Canada., the USA and the world. This is our eighth specialized criminal law volume, though Manitoba Law Journal is one of Canada’s oldest law journals. We invite scholarly papers, reflection pieces, research notes, book reviews, or other forms of written or pictorial expression. We are in press for volume 43 of the Manitoba Law Journal and have published papers from leading academics in criminal law, criminology, law and psychology and criminal justice. We welcome academic and practitioner engagement across criminal law and related disciplines.
We invite papers that relate to issues of criminal law and cognate disciplines as well as papers that reflect on the following sub-themes:
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Criminal law, criminology-based, and criminal justice doctrine and theory
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Intersections of the criminal law and the Charter
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Interpersonal violence and crimes of sexual assault
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Indigenous persons and the justice system(s)
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Gender and the criminal law
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Mental health, disability and the criminal law
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Legal issues in youth court, bail, remand, corrections and court settings
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Regulation of policing and state surveillance
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The regulation of vice including gambling, sexual expression, sex work and use of illicit substances
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Analyses of recent Supreme and Appellate court criminal law cases in Canada
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Comparative criminal law analyses
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Criminal law, popular culture and media
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Empirical, theoretical, law and society, doctrinal and/or philosophical analyses of criminal law and regulation
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Criminal evidence and procedure analyses
Last but not least, we invite general submissions dealing with topics in criminal law, criminology, criminal justice, urban studies, legal studies and social justice that relate to criminal regulation.
We will be reviewing all submissions on a rolling basis with final submissions due by February 1, 2021. This means, the sooner you submit, the sooner we will begin the peer review process. We will still consider all submissions until the deadline.
Submissions should generally be under 20,000 words (inclusive of footnotes) and if at all possible conform with the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 9th ed (Toronto: Thomson Carswell, 2018) - the "McGill Guide". Submissions must be in word or word compatible formats and contain a 250 word or less abstract and a list of 10-15 keywords.
Submissions are due February 1, 2021 and should be sent to info@robsoncrim.com