Children's Legal Rights Journal
The Children's Legal Rights Journal (CLRJ) is a multi-disciplinary journal published quarterly in conjunction with the American bar Association Center on Children and the Law, National Association of Counsel for Children, and Loyola University School of Law. The CLRJ focuses on issues affecting all professionals who work with children. Generally, the readership consists of lawyers, social workers, physicians, researchers, mental health professionals, law enforcement personnel, and educators. The majority of the readership has direct contact with school-aged children at some point in their professional careers.
Editorial Board for 2008-2009 Academic Year
- Editor-in-Chief: Kelley Menzano
- Managing Editor: Caroline Cannizzaro
- Articles Editor: Christie Redd
- Publications Editor: Rebecca Foley
- Features Editor: Kimberley Crum Klein
- Solicitations Editor: Amber Oleson
Children's Legal Rights Journal
Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
25 East Pearson Street
Room 1124
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone : 312/915-7848
Fax : 312/915-6485
Email: childlrj@luc.edu
CLRJ staff members are selected in the spring semester of each academic year. All J.D. and L.L.M. students are eligible to apply.
Subscription Information
Click here to download the CLRJ subscription form.
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Current CLRJ subscribers may access the first twenty volumes of the journal at heinonline.org.
Submission of Articles
The submission of unsolicited articles is encouraged.
The issue topics for the 2006-2007 academic year are:
- Winter 2006 - Issues of Permanency and Homelessness
- Spring 2007 - Education Law
Submissions should be sent to:
Solicitations Editor
Children's Legal Rights Journal
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
25 East Pearson Street - Room 1124
Chicago, Illinois 60611
or to
Requirements:
- Article topics must address an issue involving children and the law.
- Article must be endnoted or footnoted.
- Articles must include an author's note.
- Articles must include a cover page with the author's contact information. (including telephone number, mailing address, and e-mail address).
- Articles must be submitted in Word either via e-mail or on a floppy disk.
- Citations in manuscripts should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th ed. 2000).
**While we do not have a page requirement, most articles we publish are between 15 and 60 pages double spaced.**
Links
NACC - The National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) is a non-profit child advocacy and professional membership association.
ABA Center on Children & the Law - The American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional association in the world. With more than 400,000 members, the ABA provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public.
