We’re live!
We’re excited to launch the Dalhousie Law Journal blog. Our plan is to use this blog as a place to continue the great conversations that began in the DLJ or around the halls of the Weldon building.
In this opening blog, we discuss recent and upcoming issues, our open access copyright policy, our progress expanding the journal’s digital footprint, and some new dissemination initiatives.
We’re excited about our current and soon-to-be-published issues
This summer saw the release of a special issue on immigration law: a topic that is top-of-mind given the election discussions. You should check out some of the papers. Our next issue is a special issue on business law, which features a fantastic collection of Canada’s emerging business law scholars. (Thanks to last year’s Purdy Crawford business law workshop!) You can expect us to move the dial on topics like the case for a risk-based perspective to climate change, strategies for bringing Aboriginal and Indigenous perspectives to business law classrooms, the media’s complicity in special interest legislation, tax remission orders, the changing face of corporate restructuring, and more.
We’re well into planning for the Spring 2020 volume, but welcome submissions any time. (Find submission guidelines here.)
We’ve committed firmly to open access
The DLJ embraces principles of open access copyright. Given our role as an institution within a public university, we believe it is imperative to distribute the insights of authors who work with us as broadly as possible. Going forward, our author agreement incorporates the principles of a non-commercial open access 4.0 license.
We’re getting authors’ work out as many places as possible
We’ve expanded our digital footprint. We have partnered with Bepress to host a complete digital archive owned and maintained by the DLJ. In the future this will help us track an article’s impact. Additionally, the DLJ is now available on CanLII. Issues of the DLJ from 2015-2018 are available, and older issues will be uploaded and published soon. The full catalog of the DLJ is available on Hein Online.
This blog will become one of our main venues for continuing conversations. On it, you can expect to find brief pieces written by DLJ authors and Schulich faculty and graduate students. Upcoming blogs include an overview of the dramatic impact of Bill C-75 to the Criminal Code, a discussion of Professor Adelina Iftene’s new book “Punished for Aging”, reports from conferences at the law school, a case comment on the fallout from Vavilov and others.
And there’s more. The DLJ has a new podcast series. In this series the student editors of the journal talk with Schulich academics and DLJ authors. These conversations are a brief introduction to the authors’ themes, and an opportunity to explore nuance and counterarguments. The podcast focuses especially on scholarship with policy ramifications.
Finally, we’re on twitter! You can follow us at @DalLJ to stay current on blog posts, podcasts, new issues, and general interest news in the world of legal academia.
We’re always happy to hear from you.
- Kim Brooks (DLJ Editor)
- Jon Goud (Chief Student Editor)