Wednesday 30 December 2009

Call for papers: The Israel Law Review

Dear Colleagues,


please find quoted below a message from the Chief Co-Editors of The Israel Law Review:


Dear Colleagues,


With the advent of a new year, we write to inform you of important changes in the Israel Law Review and to invite you to submit a written contribution to the journal, which is now published by the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


The Israel Law Review is the oldest and most prestigious law journal appearing in English in Israel, published for more than 40 years under the academic auspices of the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Faculty of Law recently decided to transform the Israel Law Review from a general law review to a publication focused on public law and human rights in times of tension, conflict and transformation, and to place it under the academic and organizational leadership of the Minerva Center for Human Rights. This new move gives formal expression to already-existing trends in the profile of the materials published by the Israel Law Review. More broadly, this new focus acknowledges a growing interest in the ability of public law and human rights norms and institutions to meet the challenges faced by societies under pressure, and is indicative of the increased relevance of comparative and international scholarship to existing debates in and on such societies.


The Israel Law Review will continue to publish three issues per year. These issues will continue to be distributed in paper and electronic form (in Lexis and Hein on Line). The issues will contain, as before, long articles, shorter notes and book reviews submitted to the journal by a variety of authors from around the world. All submissions are subject to a "double-blind review" process by two or more referees, and undergo technical and style editing by the Israel Law Review student editors (supervised and assisted by an academic editor, Dr. Yaël Ronen; a technical editor, Ms. Michele Manspeizer; and an executive editor, Adv. Danny Evron). The general policy of the Law Review, as well as overall responsibility for its contents and format, will lie with the two editors-in-chief: Prof. Yuval Shany (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Prof. Sir Nigel Rodley ( University of Essex ).


In its new format, the Israel Law Review is assisted in its work by an international board of editors composed of prominent public law and human rights experts – Prof. Aharon Barak (former President of the Israeli Supreme Court), Prof. Daphna Barak-Erez (Tel-Aviv University), Prof. Antonio Cassese (Florence University), Prof. Malcolm Feeley (University of California, Berkeley), Prof. Jochen Frowein (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg), Prof. Francoise Hampson (University of Essex), Prof. Vicki Jackson (Georgetown University), Dr. Michael Karayanni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Prof. Eckart Klein (Potsdam University), Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Prof. David Kretzmer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Prof. Fionnuala Ní-Aoláin (University of Minnesota, University of Ulster), Prof. Frances Raday (College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon Le Zion), Prof. William Schabas (National University, Ireland), Prof. Malcolm Shaw (Leicester University) and Prof. Henry Steiner (Harvard University).


We, at the Minerva Center , strongly encourage you – academics interested in public law and human rights issue relating to societies facing tension, conflict and transition - to consider submitting your future work for publication in the Israel Law Review. We are committed to a prompt and professional review and printing process, and believe that we can offer you an attractive and prestigious publication platform.


More information on the submission and publication process can be found on the Israel Law Review website -http://law.huji.ac.il/eng/pirsumim.asp?cat=735 . We and the rest of the law review staff will gladly answer any question you may have concerning the journal and publishing in it (please refer any such queries to: ilr@savion.huji.ac.il).


We wish you a happy 2010!


Prof. Yuval Shany and Prof. Sir Nigel Rodley – Chief Co-Editors