Birkbeck Law School publications

• Editor-in-Chief: Hannah Baverstock
• Managing Editor: Marvin Afrane
• Publishing Editor: TBC
• Social Media Manager: Katrina Humberstone
• General Secretary: Parmvir Jandu

• Dr Jose Bellido - School of Law, University of Kent
• Professor Bill Bowring - Law School, Birkbeck, University of London
• Professor Eddie Bruce-Jones - School of Law, SOAS, University of London
• Professor Marinos Diamantides - Law School, Birkbeck, University of London
• Professor Sarah Lamble - School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London
• Professor Daniel Monk - Law School, Birkbeck, University of London
• Professor Stewart Motha - Law School, Birkbeck, University of London
• Dr Enrique Prieto-Rios - Faculty of Law, Universidad del Rosario Bogotá, Colombia
• Dr Victoria Ridler - Law School, Birkbeck, University of London
• Dr Kanika Sharma - School of Law, SOAS, University of London
• Professor Carl Stychin - Director, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies
• Professor Karin van Marle - Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
• Professor Sally Wheeler - Vice-Chancellor, Birkbeck, University of London
• Dr Thanos Zartaloudis - School of Law, University of Kent

The Birkbeck Law Review is committed to fostering rigorous legal scholarship, promoting critical analysis of contemporary legal issues, and providing a platform for diverse voices in the legal community. We aim to support academic excellence, contribute to the advancement of legal thought, and engage meaningfully with both national and international legal discourses and issues.

We welcome submissions from academics, practitioners, researchers, and undergraduate or postgraduate students.

We invite original contributions on any area of law, legal theory, or socio-legal studies. Interdisciplinary and critical perspectives are welcome.

We welcome submissions of the following type:

• Original research article (5,000-8,000 words). This should be an in-depth analysis of a legal issue (broadly conceived); or engagement with scholarly debates in fields of law and legal studies as set out above.
• Essay (2,000-4,000 words). A shorter piece focusing on a specific area of law, political or juridical controversy. This could draw on your studies, or a matter of contemporary public debate in which you take a critical position (e.g. transgender rights, ECHR, assisted-dying).
• Book review (1,000-2,000 words). This should include a general description of the topic and/or problem addressed by the work in question, summary of the argument, information about the author, summary of research methods used/substantive material covered, the book's strengths and limitations and a clearly expressed opinion about the book, including which audiences would benefit from reading it.
• Case commentary (1,500-2,000 words). Analysis of a recent court decision, placing it in the wider national/international legal context (this is recommended for law students).
• Interview (1,000-1,500 words). Interviews with practitioners, academics or others working in legal or cognate fields.

All available issues of the Birkbeck Law Review can be accessed soon from the Open Library of the Humanities (not yet active).

• Submit for publication (via the Open Library of the Humanities submission form).

Our licence is a CC BY-NC-ND Licence (open access).

View the Birkbeck Law Review style guide (January 2026). (PDF)

• Birkbeck Law Press aims to develop a distinct publishing profile by addressing the legal challenges of late modernity. Globalisation and the move towards universal legal values, which should respect, however, cultural specificities and local conditions, has created the urgent need for greater dialogue and understanding between the major schools of thought and legal systems in the world. Most legal publishing, driven by the needs of specialisation and the state-based nature of positive law, has not addressed systematically these concerns.
• Birkbeck Law Press aims to publish scholarly monographs and edited collections of essays, which develop critical and reflexive perspectives on legal theory and research and to promote the dialogue between the various approaches to legal scholarship and education. The Press aims to publish books, which promote the principles of justice and equity and are responsive to the different legal traditions and cultures of the world.

• Birkbeck Law Press invites the submission of book proposals and manuscripts from scholars in all parts of the world. The Press will consider books in all areas of legal theory and theoretically informed socio-legal studies. More specifically, we invite book proposals in the areas of:
  • law and philosophy
  • law, literature and culture
  • law, postcolonialism and critical race theory
  • law and development
  • psychoanalytical jurisprudence
  • critical legal theories and histories
  • law, gender and sexualities
  • law and political economy.
• The Press also welcomes critical and comparative treatises on any substantive area of law. A small fund will be made available for the translation into English of works in foreign languages that meet the general publications criteria of the Birkbeck Law Press.
• View guidance on how to submit a book proposal.

• Costas Douzinas - Managing Editor
• Maria Aristodemou
• Fiona Macmillan
• Leslie Moran
• Adam Gearey
• Valerie Kelley - Editorial Assistant