Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal
Submission Requirements
- A proposed title for the special issue.
- A brief justification for the special issue.
- A description of the guest editor(s).
- The guest editor(s) plan for the special issue, including an outline of the special issue, an explanation of how manuscripts will be solicited, and a timeline setting out the various deadlines. Where potential contributors have already been solicited, the plan should also include the identity and affiliation of each potential contributor and a working title for the contribution.
- Adhering to review and publication time-lines.
- Soliciting and receiving submissions. An invitation to participate in a special issue is not a guarantee of publication and guest editor(s) are to ensure authors are aware of this.
- For each manuscript submitted, recommending whether to the manuscript should proceed to the peer review process.
- Selecting peer reviewers for each manuscript and corresponding with the peer reviewers. Guest editor(s) shall maintain the anonymity of the peer review system.
- Receive reviewers’ reports and prepare comments and suggestions for authors.
- Recommend to the Journal whether to accept or reject each manuscript. The General Editors reserve the right to make final decisions on whether each manuscript proceeds and whether to accept or reject each manuscript.
- Produce a brief (maximum 2000 words) introduction to the special issue. Introductions are not peer-reviewed but are reviewed internally by the Journal.
Submission Requirements
The CLLPJ accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Manuscripts are to be submitted via the web-based submission system on this site (see "Submit Article" sidebar tab). You will need to create or log in to your Digital Commons account to make a submission.
Manuscripts submitted to the CLLPJ must be: submitted on an exclusive basis to the CLLPJ; must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere; must not have been published elsewhere; and, must be the product only of the author or authors identified in the submission. Manuscripts must not be submitted elsewhere for publication unless and until the CLLPJ makes a final decision not to publish the paper.
The CLLPJ charges no fees to authors for publication.
Articles
Articles should ordinarily be not more than 10,000 words, including in-text citations, footnotes, and reference sections. (Author Style Guide)
Articles selected for review are subject to double-anonymous peer review. The General Editors reserve the right to reject articles without review where it is clear that they are not suitable for the CLLPJ.
Articles must be accompanied by an abstract of up to 250 words and up to eight keywords. Abstracts and keywords are not required for dispatches or book reviews.
Book Reviews
The CLLPJ regularly publishes reviews, of not more than 4,000 words (inclusive of in-text citations, footnotes and references), for recently published books addressing matters within the CLLPJ’s scope of interest. Publishers, book authors and prospective book review authors, please enquire with one of the CLLPJ’s Book Review Editors.
Book Review Editor for legal topics:
Renée-Claude Drouin
Professor of Law, University of Montreal
Email: renee-claude.drouin@umontreal.ca
Book Review Editor for non-law, policy topics:
Barry Eidlin
Associate Professor of Sociology, McGill University, Canada
Email: barry.edilin@mcgill.ca
Dispatches
A dispatch is a brief essay, ordinarily not to exceed 2500 words (inclusive of in-text citations, footnotes and references), describing a significant development in national labor law: legislative, judicial, administrative. The importance of the development in domestic context should be explained; the reasons for transnational interest might be suggested.
Proposed dispatches should be submitted to the Dispatches Editors. Dispatches are not peer reviewed but are subject to review and approval by the Dispatches Editors and the General Editors.
Dispatches Editors:
Kalina Arabadjieva
Senior Researcher, European Trade Union Institute
Email: karabadijeva@etui.org
Sean Cooney
Professor, University of Melbourne
Email: s.cooney@unimelb.edu.au
Special Issues
The CLLPJ invites prospective guest editors to submit a proposal for a special issue. Special issues should be designed to stimulate thought and debate on a particular topic in international law or to provide a comparative examination of a particular subject from the perspectives of different jurisdictions and authors.
A special issue may involve a call for papers issued through the Journal and other scholarly networks, it may be founded in a workshop or conference panel, or it may be an independent initiative. In all cases, special issue contributions will be subject to the Journal’s double-anonymous peer review process.
The special issue process is as follows:
1. Prepare a Proposal
Special issues typically have two guest editors, although it is possible to have a single guest editor. The CLLPJ will not typically accept special issue proposals contemplating more than two guest editors.
Guest editors are responsible for preparing and submitting the special issue proposal to the CLLPJ. Proposals are to be approximately 1000 words in length, and must include the following:
2. Submission and Review of Proposal
Guest editors are to submit proposals via email to: cllpj@osgoode.yorku.ca
The CLLPJ will review proposals, and the General Editors make the final decision on whether to accept a proposal.
3. Successful Proposals
Where the CLLPJ accepts the special issue proposal, the guest editor(s) are then responsible for the following:
Copyright & Open Access
The Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal is an open access journal that is freely available online, as of Volume 45, Number 1. (Previous issues are archived at https://cllpj.law.illinois.edu/past-issues and on HeinOnline).
As set out in the Author's Agreement authors retain copyright, but grant permission to the CLLPJ to publish work under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0(CC) licence.
Author Self-Archiving Policy
The CLLPJ permits authors to deposit their accepted, pre-print contributions to an online repository such as SSRN. Post-print, authors are permitted to archive or self archive their contribution in an institutional repository. Where an author wishes to republish a contribution, they must clearly state that the initial publication was made in the CLLPJ and must include both a citation and link to the CLLPJ webpage containing that contribution.
Please note that once a contribution is submitted, it is bound by the CLLPJ’s exclusive submission policy