The
2018 Law
& Social
Inquiry Graduate
Student Paper
Competition is
now open!
The
editors of Law
& Social
Inquiry are
pleased to
announce our
annual
competition
for the best
journal-length
paper in the
field of law
and social
science
written by a
graduate or
law
student. Law
& Social
Inquiry publishes
empirical and
theoretical
studies of
sociolegal
processes from
a variety of
disciplinary
perspectives. Entries
will be
accepted
starting
January 1,
2018 and must
be received by
March 1, 2018.
LSI invites
direct
submissions
from graduate
and law
students and
nominations of
student work
from
faculty. The
author must be
a graduate
student or law
student at the
time the paper
was written
and when
submitted.
Faculty
nominations
should include
a short
description
along with the
paper and contact details for the student. Submissions will be
evaluated by
our editors. The
winning
submission
will be sent
to selected
scholars for
advisory
reviews to aid
with revisions
prior to
publication.
All
submissions
(direct and
faculty
nominated) are
weighted
equally in the
competition. The winning paper will be published in Law
& Social
Inquiry and
the author(s)
will receive a
total cash
prize of $500
(US).
Please
send
your article
as a Microsoft
Word document
or PDF to
lsi...@abfn.org. Please indicate that (1)
you intend to
be
considered in
the
competition,
(2) you are
currently a
graduate
student, and
(3) you have
not submitted
your
article to
other journals
for
publication.
Submission is
limited to one
paper per
student;
articles may
not be altered
or resubmitted
with
corrections
once they have
been received
by our office.
Submissions
must include a
title page
with a mailing
address,
e-mail
address, and
phone number.
The second
page should
include a
100-150 word
abstract.
Beginning on
the third
page, all
pages should
be
paginated. Text,
footnotes,
endnotes, and
references
should be
double-spaced
in Times New
Roman 12 point
font and
have 1”
margins on all
sides with no
headers or
footers. Submissions
must not
exceed 15,000
words,
including
references and
footnotes.