Canadian Journal of Law and Technology
The Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, edited by Michael Deturbide and Graham Reynolds of Dalhousie's Law and Technology Institute, and published by Thomson Carswell has been in publication since 2002. The journal, which is published twice a year, features articles, comments and book reviews on law and technology issues. The CJLT is fast becoming established as the leading law and technology journal in Canada. The CJLT is the official journal of IT.Can, the Canadian Internet Lawyers Association. IT.Can now also sponsors an annual law student writing competition. The top paper, selected from papers submitted by law students across Canada, wins a prize, and is published in the CJLT. The prize-winning paper for 2004-2005 appeared in the November 2005 issue of the CJLT.
Call for Papers
The Canadian Journal of Law and Technology is an established legal journal dedicated to providing coverage of legal issues relating to law and technology from both Canadian and international perspectives. The CJLT is published by CCH Canadian Ltd. in collaboration with the Law and Technology Institute of Dalhousie Law School and is edited by Michael Deturbide and Graham Reynolds.
The CJLT publishes twice a year and welcomes submissions of manuscripts.
The journal seeks to achieve a balance between scholarly consideration of significant issues in information technology law, and shorter pieces that explore issues of practical concern or application. The journal is also open to articles and comment pieces that explore legal issues from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The journal will also include relevant book reviews. Contributions to the journal may be in either English or French.
Scholarly articles are articles which involve significant research and which develop an idea or thesis of importance in the area of information technology law. Such articles should be approximately 6000 to 12,500 words.
Comment pieces will typically address a particular focussed issue of current concern. They may aim to expose a problem or difficulty in the law, to propose solutions or recommend legislative reform. Comment pieces may include case comments, or comments on recent legislative or policy initiatives. Comments should be approximately 2500 to 5000 words.
Book reviews should be of new or current publications in the area of law and technology. Reviews should be approximately 1250 to 2500 words in length.
Current online electronic and hard copy issues of the CJLT are available by subscription from Thomson Carswell. Information about the CJLT and archived issues are published on this free Web site through the Electronic Text Centre at Dalhousie University.
Past issues of the CJLT can be viewed online at http://cjlt.dal.ca.
Format:
Articles should be in Word format. All submissions should be double-spaced. Submissions should be made by e-mail attachment to: CJLT@dal.ca.