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Editorial appointments
Editorial names and appointments will be published when they are confirmed.
Editorial formationAn international journal of criminal law · Open for submissions
Criminal law, in doctrine and in context
Acta Juris Criminalis is an independent international journal. It publishes work across criminal law doctrine, social-science approaches to criminal law, comparative and international criminal law, and criminal justice.
Submissions are open. Founding editorial appointments will be announced when confirmed.
Criminal law doctrine
Close analysis of offences, responsibility, punishment, and legal concepts.
Social-science criminal law
Empirical, criminological, and socio-legal inquiry into criminal law.
Comparative & international
Cross-jurisdictional scholarship and international criminal law.
Criminal justice
Procedure, evidence, institutions, and the life of the criminal process.
About the journal
Broad in scope, rigorous in method
Acta Juris Criminalis will publish scholarship that takes criminal law seriously as an object of doctrinal, social, and political inquiry.
The journal welcomes work in the tradition of criminal law doctrine—the close analysis of legal rules, offences, responsibility, and punishment—as well as social-science approaches that situate criminal law in its social, institutional, and political context. It will publish comparative and international criminal law, criminal justice scholarship, and work that crosses disciplinary boundaries.
The journal is being developed as an independent, international forum. It is committed to careful editorial work, serious engagement with argument, and scholarship that is accessible to readers across jurisdictions and traditions.
Topics covered by the journal
- Criminal law theory
- Offences & responsibility
- Punishment & sentencing
- Criminology & society
- Evidence & procedure
- Comparative criminal law
- International criminal justice
- Empirical legal studies
The inaugural issue is in preparation. Submissions are now open.
Publication model
Open access. Published online.
Acta Juris Criminalis publishes open access, online, with no article processing charge (APC). Articles are published continuously in Volume 1 (2026).
- Access
- Open access
- Distribution
- Online
- APC
- None at present
- Status
- Open for submissions
- Publication model
- Open access · Online
- APC
- None at present
- First issue
- Volume 1 (2026), continuous
- Editorial appointments
- Founding board in progress
- Submission information
- Open
Open
Call for papers
The call for papers is open. Submissions are received at any time through the ORCID portal.
Submission informationConfirmed
Publication model
The journal publishes open access, online, with no APC. Articles appear continuously in Volume 1 (2026).
Publication model & APCA journal open for submissions
Learn about the journal as it takes shape.
The scope is set: criminal law doctrine, social-science approaches to criminal law, comparative and international criminal law, and criminal justice. Submissions are open.
Submissions are open · No issue has yet been published