Call for Papers!

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The Barry University School of Law’s Environmental and Earth Law Journal is calling for submissions! Please see the following request from CEJ’s Earth Law and Policy Fellow and Editor-In-Chief, Marcela Romero Mosquera.

The Barry University School of Law Environmental and Earth Law Journal (EELJ) promotes new visions and perspectives on Social and Ecological Justice, as well as facilitates an enlightened discourse on issues and topics affecting human populations and the natural world. The Journal strives to publish articles that are valuable research tools for students, attorneys, judges, and legal scholars.


Good afternoon fellow Environment Enthusiast:

The Environmental & Earth Law Journal is seeking papers that advance the application and practice of Environmental Law to be published on its 10th Volume, Summer 2020.

Call for Participation:

For our Tenth Volume, we seek a broad range of participants - including scholars, practitioners, elected officials, activists, community leaders and students. Paper topics should address the following areas of academic inquiry:

• Environmental Justice

• Earth Law

• Earth Jurisprudence

Submission Guidelines:

If you would like to be considered for publication in our 2019-2020 Volume 10 Issue, please submit your article through the Environmental and Earth Law Journal Digital Commons page located at http://lawpublications.barry.edu/ejejj/ 

Once you have accessed the link provided, please click on “Submit Article.” We will notify all selected participants by mail or email, depending on the submission information provided. We request that all participants provide both an email address and a mailing address.

Selected contributors must submit finished papers to the Journal no later than March 1st, 2020. If selected, Final Submissions may be of any length up to a maximum of 50 pages, in a double-spaced, 8.5 x 11-inch page format with 12-point font (10-point for footnotes). You will receive a confirmation by e-mail.

General Submission Rules:

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a workingpaper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Environmental and Earth Law Journal, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Environmental and Earth Law Journal. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Environmental and Earth Law Journal, please contact:

Chase Leonard at chase.leonard@law.barry.edu or 

Marcela Romero Mosquera at marcela.romeromosquera@law.barry.edu

Selection:

Submitted articles will be judged on the following criteria: relevance to the practice of law in the specified areas, timeliness and importance of selected topic, organization, quality of legal analysis, quality of legal research, and quality of the overall writing.

For More Information, Please Contact:

Chase Leonard

Lead Articles Editor

Environmental and Earth Law Journal

chase.leonard@law.barry.edu

 

Thank you in advance for your time and cooperation. 

 Sincerely,

Marcela Romero Mosquera

Editor-in-Chief

Environmental and Earth Law Journal