The Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal invites you to submit an original “Note from the Field.” Please submit your work by September 7, 2006 for priority consideration, and in any case by October 1, 2006.
The Journal
The Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal (“Journal”) is committed to promoting new and critical thinking about human rights, development and the law. To this end the Journal publishes original and provocative work from a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. The Journal publishes traditional scholarly articles as well as notes by practitioners sharing the insights of their fieldwork. The Journal is published annually in printed bound hardcopy and electronically. It is available on electronic databases such as Westlaw, Lexis and Hein Online. Submissions accepted in the fall will be published the following May.
Notes from the Field
The Journal publishes “Notes from the Field” (“NFTFs”) in order to promote and facilitate the exchange of ideas between practitioners and the legal academic community. Accordingly, the Journal does not limit NFTFs to pieces by lawyers or legal academics; rather, the Journal encourages all interested individuals to share their insights and experience, to bring attention to important and novel issues, and to argue for new approaches to strengthen the rule of law and human rights in the developing world. In previous editions the Journal has published papers on such diverse topics as legal education in China, human rights advocacy in Zimbabwe, and witness protection programs in Yugoslavia. Previous editions of the Journal are available on the web at http://islandia.law.yale.edu/yhrdlj.
Submissions Guidelines
Competitive submissions will present original and innovative arguments, and will be well-written, concisely argued, carefully researched and clearly footnoted. NFTFs should be between five and thirty pages double spaced (1,500 – 9,000 words). All papers must be submitted in Microsoft Word format. Text must be formatted in 12-point Times New Roman font with one-inch margins. Authors should email their submissions to the Journal at yhrdlj@yale.edu with the subject heading “NFTF Submission – [Title of your work].” All submissions must be accompanied by an abstract that summarizes the content of the piece in 100-250 words. Please include this abstract both in your email message and in the body of your submission.
The Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
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