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Journal Announcement: The Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies

By Lawrence Solum

We are now launching the first issue of the Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies. The Jerusalem Review of Legal Studiesis a law journal dedicated to in-depth discussions of recent important studies of and in law. Typically, each issue consists of two symposia on a recent or forthcoming book, or on a research-project that is not quite a book. Each symposium consists of critical comments by several commentators (the first of which includes an overview of the relevant work), and a response by the person whose research project it is. The published version of the symposia is based on actual, real-life symposia held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where initial versions of the comments and responses are discussed in person. The written versions of the comments and responses are then subject to a review process that ensures not just the quality of the critical exchange, but also that the texts incorporate the lessons of the oral discussion at the symposium. The JRLS fills a gap in the current legal literature by offering a stage for the kind of sustained and focused critical discussion of influential theoretical research-projects. 

The JRLS engages books and other research projects in all methodological disciplines of legal theory, and of all legal areas. The projects discussed are chosen by the editors based on their importance, theoretical significance, interest, and influence. The JRLS ensures that the selection of commentators is such as to encourage critical examination of the relevant work both from within the relevant sub-discipline, and from related fields and sub-disciplines.

The first issue includes a book symposium on Doug Husak's Overcriminalization and on David Rabban's Law's History. And hard copies of the issue will be coming soon to a library near you. Following issues will include symposia on Adrian Vermeule's Law and the Limits of Reason, Will Kymlicka's Multicultural Odysseys, Rae Langton's Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification, Barak Medina & Eyal Zamir's Law, Economics and Morality,John Gardner's Offences and Defences: Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Criminal Law, and John Mikhail'sElements of Moral Cognition: Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment.

The JRLS website can be found here.

And on SSRN here.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).