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Author Guidelines

Focus & Scope

The Lakehead Law Journal invites the submission of articles, case comments, book reviews, and book notes authored by students, academics, and legal practitioners. The LLJ has an annual  deadline of the 15th September for submission of articles, but will consider submissions on a rolling basis. The LLJ publishes one volume per year. Please also note that as a student operated journal a smaller editorial team is in place during the summer months and response times will vary accordingly.

Submissions

The LLJ prefers articles that are between 7000-8000 words, including footnotes. Submitted case comments should be no longer than 4000 words, including footnotes. Submitted book reviews and book notes should be no longer than 2000 words, including footnotes. Submissions of exceptional quality that vary from the preferred length may be considered for publication at the discretion of the Editorial Team.

The LLJ accepts electronic submissions. Authors can make electronic submissions by creating an Author account on this Online Journal System. Alternatively, if you would prefer to send your submission by email, please send your submission as a word document to the Lakehead Law Journal at lawjournal@lakeheadu.ca.

Submission Preparation Checklist

The Lakehead Law Journal fills a significant niche in the legal scholarship landscape by focusing on the following mandates: (1) Aboriginal and Indigenous legal issues; (2) rural, northern, and small firm practice; and/or (3) natural resources and environmental law.

We also publish original articles that are shorter than typical academic articles. Our hope is that shorter pieces (approximately 8000-9000 words) will be more accessible to busy lawyers and judges, making them more likely to be cited in judgments and play a part in shaping the law. However, we will consider longer works, please reach out to the editors to discuss if this your situation.

Before Submitting articles please ensure the following requirements are met: 

  1. All articles are to be submitted through the Lakehead Law Journal website. Authors are required to submit their articles through their profile created on the journal website. All communications concerning submitted articles will be sent through the law journal website.
  2. By submitting works, authors are confirming that the work submitted is original, owned by the author, not previously published in whole or in part. Submission of a manuscript to The Lakehead Law Journal is understood to imply that the manuscript is not under consideration by any other journal and is offered to the Lakehead Law Journal for first publication. 
  3. All files must be submitted in any recent version of Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), WordPerfect (.wpd), or Rich Text Format (.rtf).  If your manuscript contains figures, you will need to prepare and submit these in separate files in TIFF (.tif) or EPS (.eps) format.
  4. Articles must adhere to the 10th edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation ("the McGill Guide”), including insertion of permalinks for online works (per McGill Guide guidelines).
  5. All uploaded articles must be anonymized. In particular, remove any identity-revealing references to your own published manuscripts; remove any references to unpublished manuscripts, as references to such manuscripts can potentially reveal your identity. The purpose of keeping the author’s identity concealed is to maintain the integrity of our blind peer review process. All successful submissions are externally reviewed in confidence.
  6. Authors must Include a brief abstract of approximately 250 words clearly summarizing the arguments made in the article.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain original copyright and grant the LLJ first publication rights. Articles published in this open access journal are free to use, with proper attribution, for educational and non-commercial purposes.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.