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Editorial appointments
Editorial names and appointments will be published when they are confirmed.
Editorial formationIn preparation · An international journal of criminal law
Criminal law, in doctrine and in context
Acta Juris Criminalis is an independent international journal in preparation. It will publish work across criminal law doctrine, social-science approaches to criminal law, comparative and international criminal law, and criminal justice.
Launch details, editorial appointments, and submission information 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
Publication model
Open access. Published online.
Acta Juris Criminalis will be an open-access journal, published online. No article processing charge (APC) is currently planned.
- Access
- Open access
- Distribution
- Online
- APC
- None at present
- Status
- In preparation
- Publication model
- Open access · Online
- APC
- None at present
- First issue
- In preparation
- Editorial appointments
- To be announced
- Submission information
- To be added
Information to be added
Call for papers
Submission guidelines and any call for papers will be published here when available.
Submission informationConfirmed
Publication model
The journal will publish open access, online, with no APC at present. Issue and launch details will be added when available.
Publication model & APCA journal in preparation
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. Launch and submission information will be published when confirmed.
No issue has yet been published · Submission information will be added here