About De Jure Law Journal
De Jure Law Journal is a general law journal, accredited by the Department of Higher Education & Training. It publishes original research concerned with the development and dissemination of cutting-edge legal research, both national and international.
The scope of the journal is wide and supports legal academics, practitioners and scholars.
About the Call for Papers
De Jure Law Journal is currently making a call for papers from legal academics, practitioners and scholars within a broad legal spectrum.
Themes
De Jure Law Journal has the promotion of a critical and analytical approach to law as its main objective and, towards this aim, publishes original contributions of a high academic standard.
De Jure Law Journal is a national and general legal journal to which academics, members of the judiciary and members of the different legal professions may contribute
Submission Guidelines
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Contributions in English are published and may consist of articles, notes, discussions of recent cases and book reviews.
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A brief summary of approximately 300 words must accompany the article.
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In order to be considered for publication a contribution must be the result of original research by the author(s), meet with all applicable legal principles in respect of publication (such as copyright, etcetera), contribute something sufficiently new to the existing legal literature and conform to the linguistic, technical and stylistic requirements for publications in De Jure Law Journal.
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Authors are personally responsible to ensure that their submissions meet all these requirements.
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Submissions are accepted for consideration only on the basis that while the editorial committee makes the final decision on publication, submissions will be subjected to appropriate peer and expert review, as well as review by members of the advisory committee when necessary.
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The editorial committee further reserves the right to edit all submissions accepted for publication in terms of the editorial policy, as well as to shorten submissions if necessary.
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Unless prior arrangements have been made with the editor, an article (including footnotes and the summary) may not exceed 8000 words and other contributions may not exceed 5500 words.
How to Submit?
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All manuscripts are to be submitted online at the link given below.
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Authors must supply their relevant contact particulars, especially e-mail addresses and telephone numbers.
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Authors must guarantee that they are legally entitled to have the full submission published and that it, or a part of it, has not been published elsewhere before.
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Authors must disclose whether it or a part of it, has been submitted to any other journal for publication.
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Authors must undertake to give reasonable notice to the editor if the submission is withdrawn for any reason.
Formatting Guidelines
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Manuscripts have to be typed in double space. That is the case regarding the text itself, quotes and footnotes.
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Unless prior arrangements have been made with the editor, an article (including footnotes and the summary) may not exceed 8000 words and other contributions may not exceed 5500 words.
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Manuscripts are submitted in MS Word format via the De Jure website.
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A summary of approximately 300 words must accompany an article.
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Footnotes start with a capital letter and end with a full stop.
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Footnotes are not used in notes, discussions of case law or book reviews. In respect of the latter, all references are integrated (in brackets) in the text itself, for example: (Oza
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Children’s Rights (2020) 259-260); (S v Maritz 2019 1 SA 578 (ECG)).
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Abbreviations have to be used in footnotes, for example, ‘S9’ and not ‘Section 9’.
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Where multiple sources are referred to in one footnote, they have to be separated by semi-colons and preferably chronologically ordered. Individual footnotes have to be presented flowingly; the text should not be divided into paragraphs.
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Headings of articles and notes must be as short as possible.
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Lowercase is used in the main headings of articles.
Submission Deadline
Rolling basis
Contact Information
In case of any query, kindly contact lorette.arendse@up.ac.za
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