I'm proud and excited to be part of the launch of a new journal, called the Journal of American Constitutional History. A number of Balkinization bloggers are editors of the journal, including Mary Dudziak, Mark Graber, Sandy Levinson, Gerard Magliocca, John Mikhail, and Mark Tushnet. You can read more about the journal at its website, which is here. Please find the first Call for Papers below.
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Journal
of American Constitutional History
Call for
Papers
You are cordially invited to
submit articles to the Journal of American Constitutional History, a new
online peer-reviewed journal. At a time when law office history is increasingly
casting its shadow over both scholarship and jurisprudence, the Journal of
American Constitutional History will offer a space for scholarship that
tries to understand the past, rather than to distort it to influence present
controversies.
The Journal seeks to promote
inter- and multi-disciplinary scholarly dialogue on constitutional history, and
we therefore invite submissions from disciplines outside of law, including
history and political science. The Journal will publish articles of all
lengths, from shorter essays and thought-pieces in the 4,000-to-6,000-word
range to longer, traditional articles. Authors will be able to conform to the
norms and citation styles of their respective fields.
Why this
journal?
The Journal of American
Constitutional History offers a serious alternative to student-edited law
reviews and the constraining expectations of student editors. Authors will not
need to erect elaborate scaffolding that shows some present-day “doctrinal
payoff.” Nor will authors have to devote thousands of words to well-known
background material, unnecessary footnotes, or literature reviews.
The Journal offers much
faster publication decisions and time-to-publication than most peer-reviewed
journals. Authors can expect to receive first-level decisions within a week of
submission, and articles submitted for double-blind peer review will receive a
decision within 3-4 weeks. Each author will receive written feedback explaining
our publication decision. Articles will be published via the Journal
website as soon they are completed rather than awaiting compilation of a full
issue. Each article will be assigned a unique page range for citation purposes,
and published articles will be carried by Hein Online and other searchable
electronic databases.
The Journal’s Board of
Editors comprises leading scholars in the field of constitutional history.
(Please see listing on reverse page.) Authors can thus be assured of reaching
their target audience from a distinguished platform and need not associate
“prestige” with killing trees.
To submit articles, please visit our website, https://jach.law.wisc.edu,
starting December 1, 2022. For questions, please contact the Journal’s
editor-in-chief, David Schwartz, at