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Oxford Law Review
Oxford Law Review is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the publication of original, rigorous, and significant scholarship in law and related disciplines. The journal provides a forum for sustained and critical engagement with questions of legal doctrine, theory, institutions, history, policy, and practice, while facilitating scholarly dialogue across jurisdictions, legal traditions, and disciplinary boundaries.
The journal welcomes original scholarly contributions from academics, researchers, legal practitioners, and emerging scholars. Oxford Law Review is committed to maintaining rigorous standards of academic evaluation and to providing an intellectually independent platform for scholarship that makes a substantive contribution to legal knowledge.
Oxford Law Review is published three times annually, with three issues appearing in each calendar year.
Focus and Scope
Oxford Law Review adopts a broad conception of legal scholarship and welcomes original research across the full spectrum of law and related fields. The journal's scope includes, but is not limited to:
- Constitutional and administrative law
- Criminal law and criminal justice
- Civil and private law
- Commercial, corporate, and economic law
- International and comparative law
- Human rights and humanitarian law
- Environmental and natural resources law
- Technology, artificial intelligence, and law
- Jurisprudence and legal theory
- Legal history and historical jurisprudence
- Socio-legal studies
- Public policy and regulation
- International relations and transnational legal studies
- Emerging areas of legal scholarship
The journal also welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship situated at the intersection of law with the humanities and social sciences, including history, political science, economics, sociology, philosophy, criminology, anthropology, international relations, and related disciplines.
Interdisciplinary contributions are particularly encouraged where engagement with another discipline materially advances the analysis of legal questions, institutions, norms, processes, or practices. The journal welcomes doctrinal, theoretical, comparative, historical, empirical, socio-legal, and other methodologically rigorous approaches to legal inquiry.
Oxford Law Review is international in scope and welcomes scholarship concerning legal systems, jurisdictions, and legal traditions across the world. Comparative and transnational perspectives are encouraged where they contribute meaningfully to the understanding and development of legal scholarship.
Article Processing Charges
Oxford Law Review does not charge any submission fee. Authors are not required to make any payment when submitting a manuscript for editorial consideration, and no payment is required in order for a manuscript to enter the peer-review process.
The journal operates an Article Processing Charge (APC) model for articles accepted for publication. APCs are payable only after a manuscript has successfully completed the editorial and peer-review process and has been formally accepted for publication.
The APC contributes towards the costs associated with editorial administration, peer-review management, copy-editing and production, digital publication, website and platform maintenance, preservation, and dissemination of published scholarship.
Payment of an APC is not a condition for editorial consideration and does not influence the editorial or peer-review decision. No article is accepted or rejected on the basis of an author's ability or willingness to pay the APC.
APC Schedule
The applicable APC is determined by the author's geographical region, professional or student status, and the number of authors.
|
Region |
Author Category | Single Author | Two or More Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia | Legal Professional | INR 1,200 | INR 1,500 |
| Asia | Student | INR 600 | INR 1,000 |
| North America | Legal Professional | USD 75 | USD 90 |
| North America | Student | USD 35 | USD 50 |
| Europe | Legal Professional | EUR 100 | EUR 150 |
| Europe | Student | EUR 40 | EUR 60 |
| Australia & New Zealand | Legal Professional | AUD/NZD 80 | AUD/NZD 100 |
| Australia & New Zealand | Student | AUD/NZD 45 | AUD/NZD 60 |
| Africa | Legal Professional | USD 35 | USD 50 |
| Africa | Student | USD 15 | USD 25 |
For authors based in Australia, the applicable amount is denominated in AUD; for authors based in New Zealand, the corresponding amount is denominated in NZD.
Author Classification
For APC purposes, the professional category applies to authors submitting in a professional or academic capacity, including practising lawyers, advocates, solicitors, barristers, legal consultants, legal academics, researchers, and other professionals engaged in legal or related scholarly work.
Authors applying under the student category must provide valid and verifiable evidence of current student status, such as a valid institutional student identification card or official confirmation of enrolment.
Where a manuscript has two or more authors, the applicable multi-author rate applies irrespective of the number of co-authors.
No Submission or Review Fee
Oxford Law Review does not charge any fee for manuscript submission, initial editorial assessment, or peer review.
Authors may submit manuscripts without making any payment. The applicable APC becomes payable only following formal acceptance of the manuscript for publication.
If a manuscript is rejected at any stage of the editorial or peer-review process, no APC is payable.
Editorial Independence
Editorial and peer-review decisions are made independently of APC considerations. The payment of an APC does not guarantee acceptance, publication, or favourable editorial treatment.
All manuscripts are assessed on their scholarly merits and in accordance with the journal's editorial and peer-review policies. The journal's financial arrangements do not alter the independence of its editorial decision-making.
Transparency of Charges
Authors are informed of the applicable APC and payment requirements following acceptance. No undisclosed submission, processing, review, or publication charges are imposed upon authors.
Oxford Law Review reserves the right to revise its APC schedule from time to time. Any revised charges will be published on the journal's website and will apply in accordance with the journal's stated publication policies.
Peer Review
Oxford Law Review operates a double-blind peer-review system for scholarly research articles. Manuscripts selected for external review are evaluated by independent reviewers whose identities are concealed from the authors, while the identities of authors are withheld from reviewers.
The peer-review process is intended to provide an impartial and substantive assessment of each manuscript. Reviewers may consider, among other factors, the originality of the research, analytical rigour, methodological soundness, engagement with relevant scholarship, clarity of argument, quality of evidence, and significance of the contribution to the field.
The journal may conduct an initial editorial assessment before external peer review to determine whether a submission falls within the journal's scope and satisfies its basic scholarly and editorial requirements.
Submission to Oxford Law Review does not guarantee publication. Editorial decisions are based on the scholarly and editorial merits of each submission.
Publication Ethics and Academic Integrity
Oxford Law Review is committed to academic integrity, responsible research, transparency, and ethical scholarly publication.
Authors are expected to submit original work, accurately acknowledge the contributions and work of others, provide appropriate citations, disclose relevant conflicts of interest, and comply with applicable standards of research and publication ethics.
The journal does not accept plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, substantial undisclosed overlap, or other forms of academic misconduct.
Where concerns regarding the integrity of submitted or published work arise, the journal may undertake an appropriate editorial inquiry and may take corrective measures where warranted, including correction, expression of concern, or retraction where appropriate.
Editorial Independence
Oxford Law Review maintains editorial independence in the evaluation and publication of scholarly work. Editorial decisions are based on academic and scholarly considerations and are not determined by commercial, political, institutional, or other external interests.
The journal welcomes diverse scholarly perspectives and does not require authors to subscribe to a particular theoretical, methodological, jurisdictional, or ideological position. Submissions must, however, satisfy the journal's requirements concerning scholarly quality, originality, academic integrity, and methodological rigour.
Conflicts of Interest
Authors, reviewers, and editors are expected to disclose circumstances that could reasonably give rise to a conflict of interest in relation to a submitted or published manuscript.
Reviewers are expected to maintain confidentiality and should decline a review assignment where a personal, professional, financial, institutional, or other relationship could compromise, or reasonably appear to compromise, the impartiality of their assessment.
Editors may take appropriate measures to manage identified conflicts and to preserve the integrity and independence of the editorial process.
Open Access and Accessibility
Oxford Law Review seeks to facilitate broad scholarly access to published research and to promote the dissemination of legal scholarship across jurisdictions and academic communities.
The journal's applicable access, licensing, and publication terms are stated in its publication policies and apply to articles published by the journal.
Where specific open-access licences are applicable, the relevant licence terms will be identified with the published article.
Copyright
Copyright and licensing arrangements for individual articles are governed by the publication terms applicable to the relevant article.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submissions do not infringe the copyright, intellectual property, privacy, or other legal rights of third parties. Where copyrighted or otherwise protected material is reproduced, authors are responsible for obtaining any permissions required under applicable law.
The journal's specific copyright and licensing provisions are set out in its applicable Author Guidelines and publication policies.
Privacy
Oxford Law Review respects the privacy of authors, reviewers, editors, and visitors to its website.
Personal information collected through manuscript submission, peer review, editorial correspondence, website forms, or other journal-related processes is used for legitimate editorial, publishing, administrative, and communication purposes.
Personal information will not be disclosed to third parties except where such disclosure is necessary for the operation of the journal, required by applicable law, or otherwise permitted under the journal's applicable privacy policy.
Digital Preservation and Archiving
Oxford Law Review recognises the importance of preserving the scholarly record and ensuring the long-term accessibility of published research.
The journal is committed to maintaining appropriate digital preservation and archival arrangements for its published content.
Where the journal participates in a recognised digital preservation or archival service, such as LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico, or another preservation system, the applicable service and preservation arrangements will be identified on the journal's website.
Publication Frequency
Oxford Law Review is published three times each calendar year.
Each issue comprises scholarly contributions selected and evaluated in accordance with the journal's editorial and peer-review procedures. The publication schedule may include research articles and other scholarly contributions consistent with the journal's scope and editorial policies.
International and Interdisciplinary Character
Oxford Law Review is international in scope and welcomes scholarship concerning legal systems, jurisdictions, and legal traditions across the world.
The journal encourages comparative, transnational, historical, theoretical, empirical, doctrinal, socio-legal, and interdisciplinary approaches to legal scholarship.
Particular value is placed on research that contributes meaningfully to dialogue across legal systems and academic disciplines and that advances understanding of law as a dynamic intellectual, institutional, historical, and social phenomenon.
Submission and Originality
Manuscripts submitted to Oxford Law Review should be original scholarly work and should not ordinarily be under consideration for publication elsewhere at the same time.
Authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of their submissions and for appropriately acknowledging all sources, materials, data, ideas, and contributions upon which their work relies.
Detailed requirements concerning manuscript preparation, formatting, references, submission procedures, and supporting documentation are set out in the journal's Author Guidelines.
Editorial Statement
Oxford Law Review seeks to contribute to the advancement of legal scholarship through the publication of original research demonstrating intellectual independence, analytical depth, methodological integrity, and substantive engagement with existing scholarship.
The journal provides an independent scholarly forum in which significant questions of law and related disciplines may be examined critically, comparatively, and constructively. It seeks to encourage scholarship that contributes to the interpretation, understanding, critique, and development of law while fostering meaningful academic dialogue across jurisdictions and disciplines.
Oxford Law Review welcomes scholarship that is rigorous in method, clear in argument, substantial in contribution, and relevant to the continuing development of legal knowledge.
