Home page Subscriptions Submissions Abstracts & Archive Editorial Committee Contact us

Submissions

Submissions for Volume 21 are now open and close on 30 April 2012.

The Editorial Committee of the Legal Education Review welcomes submissions for its 2012 volume. 

Issue 1 will be a General Issue. We welcome research articles on current issues in legal education from all jurisdictions.

Issue 2 will be a Special Issue entitled ‘The Teaching-Research Nexus in Law: Opportunities and Challenges’. We welcome articles that address any aspect of the nexus between teaching and research within the discipline of law, such as:

  • How can law educators maximise learning outcomes through bringing law and/or education research into the classroom?
     
  • How can law teachers maximise their research outcomes by conducting research into the pedagogy and practice of law teaching?
     
  • How can law educators achieve excellence in supervision of higher degree research students?
     
  • In an environment where few law academics were trained in socio-legal or empirical research methodologies, does the conduct of educational research and the supervision of non-doctrinal legal research pose particular challenges?

 Submissions are open until 30 April 2012 

Please email your submission to admin@ler.edu.au. Please include an abstract (100-200 words) of your paper when you submit.

Click here for a Publication Timeline for Volume 21.

Click here for the Complete Version of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)3rd Edition; for the Quick Reference Guide see pages 335-343.
The Review is an accepted refereed journal under the Australian Department of Education Science and Training (DEST).

 Click here to see the DEST Register of Refereed Journals.


 The Review publishes articles which examine teaching pedagogy and practice that is solidly grounded in the relevant literature.

All articles submitted to the Review should:

  • be an original and scholarly analysis and evaluation of a legal education topic, issue or innovative teaching method;
  • demonstrate awareness of and familiarity with contemporary legal education scholarship by including references to the relevant literature;
  • support the description of an innovative teaching method (if any) with details of:
  • the justification of the method,
  • scholarly support for the method,
  • objective evaluation of the method, and
  • practical implications of the method;
  • be written in a scholarly tone with appropriate punctuation and grammar; and
  • include an abstract (100-200 words), appropriate headings and footnotes.

Information for Authors

The Review prefers that all papers are written in 3rd person, that gender-inclusive language is used, that words and phrases in languages other than English are used only when necessary and that translations are included.

Citation is according to the AGLC 3rd Ed. The Review  also follows a double-blind refereeing process and authors should not refer to their own work in a way that identifies them to referees.

All citations must be in footnotes. A bibliography is not required.

Please include an abstract of your paper when you submit.

Click here to read the Review's Copyright and Publication Policy.

 



 

Information for Referees

The Review uses two blind referees for every submission.

Referees  are asked to provide their comments approximately one month after receiving the submission allocated to them.

Referees should use track changes in Microsoft Word if they wish to make any changes to the author's submission. The Review promises to maintain the confidentiality of referees.

Once referees have made their comments, they will be asked whether they believe the submission should proceed in the publication process, or whether the submission needs to be amended. Lastly, a referee may advise that the paper should not be published in its current form.

If a referee suggests that the submission needs amending, then they are to nominate whether they are interested in refereeing the re-submission.

Thank you to all our referees for their contribution to the Review. Our authors greatly benefit from your expertise.