Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis (the successor of the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law), is a leading international journal for publication on the social-scientific study of law and legal pluralism in the broadest sense. It is the only international journal dedicated to the empirical research and analysis of legal pluralism from an interdisciplinary perspective. Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis is a refereed scholarly journal with a genuinely global reach, publishing both empirical and theoretical contributions from a variety of disciplines or interdisciplinary approaches that include law, anthropology of law, socio-legal studies, political science, environmental studies, urban studies, political ecology, science and technology studies, history and development studies.
The journal specifically invites: a) contributions that, starting from a social-scientific approach to law, further current debate in the anthropology of law, socio-legal studies, and legal pluralism; b) contributions that, taking other scientific fields as their point of departure but with a scientific interest in the role of law and legal pluralism, yield important insights from such an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal welcomes papers that make such original contributions based on research anywhere in the world, both in historic and contemporary contexts. Such work may include both theoretical papers and empirically-based contributions to disseminate new and emerging scientific findings from fieldwork or other forms of engagement such as activism and advocacy, in the fields of human rights, conflict, migration and mobility, culture and religion, the state, policy and bureaucracy, environmental movements and other rights-based movements including indigenous rights, gender, minority rights and rights to/of nature.
This journal was first published in 1969, under the title African Law Studies (issues 1-18). From 1981 it appeared under the title Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. From 2013, it appear in volume format (Volume 45 onwards). From 2022, it is titled Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis. The journal publishes three issues a year.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via Editorial Manager.
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
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