Transnational Legal Theory

Transnational Legal Theory (TLT) is a refereed law review with double anonymized peer-review, published four times a year. It features full length articles, symposia, comments on current developments, and book reviews. Since its launch in 2010, TLT has been the flagship forum for a critical and timely scholarly engagement with law’s position in processes of globalisation. Combing an “inward” and an “outward” perspective, the Journal is a platform for research that situates domestic fields of law in their evolving transnational social, cultural, economic and environmental contexts and for scholarship that studies the impact of international law on local settings. TLT scholarship is both theoretical and practical, comparative and interdisciplinary. The Journal welcomes interventions by academics, practitioners and legal activists in continuing and emerging debates in legal, post-colonial and social theory, commentary on governance trends and engagements with shifting boundaries between public and private law frameworks, alternative methodologies and competing epistemologies, including those between the Global North and the Global South. TLT is committed to providing a forum for critical examinations of the role of law in creating and maintaining our contemporary world, as well as for scholarship that pursues new strategies and interventions to transform societies and their legal institutions. In its second decade, TLT particularly welcomes legal research that is contextualised by the predominant facets of globalisation, including gender and sexuality, race, (post-)coloniality, indigeneity, development, food security, labour, natural resources, security and technology. Methodologically, the journal is open to submissions working from a variety of disciplinary approaches, including philosophical, doctrinal, sociological, anthropological, historical, international relations and political economy approaches to law.