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About the Journal

The Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal (CLLPJ) provides a venue for leading scholarship in international labour law and the comparative analysis of labour law, employment policy, and social security issues. With an extensive world-wide circulation, the Journal has become a major international forum for research, theoretical and applied, in a field of growing global importance. The CLLPJ produces three issues per year, including scholarly articles, dispatches and book reviews. Commencing with Volume 45, Number 1, and going forward, the Journal has become open access and available digitally through the Osgoode Digital Commons. The CLLPJ is a non-profit journal, and is generously funded by Osgoode Hall Law School and the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers.

History

The Comparative Labor Law Journal was founded in 1976, with UCLA’s Benjamin Aaron as Founding Editor, and with the support of the United States Branch of the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security (US ISLLSS). Upon Professor Aaron’s retirement, the Journal moved to the University of Pennsylvania, under the Editorship of Clyde Summers and Janice Bellace. In 1997, the Journal then moved to the University of Illinois, under the direction of General Editors Matthew Finkin and Sanford Jacoby. There it was renamed the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal and its Editorial Advisory Board expanded. During this period the Journal was supported by the University of Illinois College of Law and the US ISLLSS. In 2024, and commencing with Volume 45, Number 1, the CLLPJ moved to Osgoode Hall Law School, with Professors Valerio De Stefano and Sara Slinn assuming the General Editorship. The CLLPJ is generously supported by Osgoode Hall Law School and the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers.

Contact Information

Please contact the CLLPJ by email at the following address: cllpj@osgoode.yorku.ca.

NOTE: The Journal has now moved to open access and, therefore, no longer offers subscriptions. Neither Osgoode Hall Law School nor the current editors of the CLLPJ have access to past printed issues of the Journal or subscription records from before its transfer to Osgoode Hall. For any inquiry related to past issues that are not posted online on this website, please contact the University of Illinois College of Law (Urbana-Champaign).

Editorial Board

General Editors:
Valerio De Stefano Professor and Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto	Sara Slinn Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
Book Review Editors:
Renée-Claude Drouin Professor of Law, University of Montreal	Barry Eidlin Associate Professor of Sociology, McGill University
Dispatches Editors:
Kalina Arabadjieva Senior Researcher, European Trade Union Institute	Sean Cooney Professor, University of Melbourne
European Union Developments Editor:
*Achim Seifert* Professor of Law, Friedrich-Schiller-University
Senior Editors:
Janice R. Bellace Samuel Blank Professor of Legal Studies, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Matthew Finkin Swalund Endowed Chair, Center for Advanced Study Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law Mark Freedland Professor of Employment Law Emeritus, University of Oxford, England Alvin Goldman Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Kentucky Sanford M. Jacoby Distinguished Research Professor, Management, History, & Public Affairs, UCLA, Anderson School of Management	Kamala Sankaran Professor of Law, Ford Foundation Chair in Public Interest Law, National Law School of India University Silvana Sciarra Chief Justice, Italian Constitutional Court, Italy Kazuo Sugeno President Emeritus, Japan Institute of Labor Policy & Training Manfred Weiss Professor of Law Emeritus, Frankfurt University, Germany
Editorial Advisory Board:
Ifeoma Ajunwa Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law James J. Brudney Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law John L. Campbell Class of 1925 Professor, Dartmouth College Lance Compa Senior Lecturer, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld Professor, Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University *Simon Deakin* Professor of Law, University of Cambridge *Virginia Doellgast* Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution, ILR School, Cornell University *Cynthia Estlund* Professor of Law, New York University School of Law Guy Davidov Elias Lieberman Chair in Labour Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem *Roberto Fragale* Judge, Brazilian Labor Court & Professor of Law, Fluminense Federal Universiteit Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau Professeure titulaire, Université de Montreal *Adrián Goldin* Professor Plenario, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina *Ana Virginia Moreira Gomes* Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, International Labour Office; Full Professor, University of Fortaleza *Thomas A. Kochan* Bunker Professor of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Thomas C. Kohler Professor of Law, Boston College Law School Pascal Lokiec Professor at Sorbonne University, Paris 1; President of the French Association for Labour Law & Social Security Law Jonas Malmberg President of the Swedish Labor Court Jonas Pontusson Professor of Comparative Politics, Université de Genève Kerry Rittich Professor of Law, University of Toronto Monika Schlachter Director, Institute of Labor Law and Labor Relations in the European Community, Trier, Germany Alain Supiot Professor, Collège de France Peter Swenson Professor of Political Science, Yale University Kathleen Thelen Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT Gilles Trudeau Professor of Law, University of Montreal Jelle Visser Professor of Empirical Sociology, University of Amsterdam Steven L. Willborn Schmoker Professor of Law, University of Nebraska Law School

Current/Past Issues

All issues of the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal can be viewed here.

Subscriptions

The Journal has now moved to open access and, therefore, no longer offers subscriptions. Neither Osgoode Hall Law School nor the current editors of the CLLPJ have access to past printed issues of the Journal or subscription records from before its transfer to Osgoode Hall. For any inquiry related to past issues that are not posted online on this website, please contact the University of Illinois College of Law (Urbana-Champaign).

Author Guidelines

Submission Requirements

The CLLPJ accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Manuscripts are to be submitted via the web-based submission system on this site (see “Submit Article” sidebar tab). You will need to create or log in to your Digital Commons account to make a submission.

Manuscripts submitted to the CLLPJ must be: submitted on an exclusive basis to the CLLPJ; must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere; must not have been published elsewhere; and, must be the product only of the author or authors identified in the submission. Manuscripts must not be submitted elsewhere for publication unless and until the CLLPJ makes a final decision not to publish the paper.

The CLLPJ charges no fees to authors for publication.

Articles

Articles should ordinarily be not more than 10,000 words, including in-text citations, footnotes, and reference sections (Author Style Guide).

Articles selected for review are subject to double-anonymous peer review. Manuscripts submitted for review must be anonymised; files should not contain any identifying information about the author(s). The General Editors reserve the right to reject articles without review where it is clear that they are not suitable for the CLLPJ.

Articles must be accompanied by an abstract of up to 250 words and up to eight keywords. Abstracts and keywords are not required for dispatches or book reviews.

Book Reviews

The CLLPJ regularly publishes reviews, of not more than 4,000 words (inclusive of in-text citations, footnotes and references), for recently published books addressing matters within the CLLPJ’s scope of interest. Publishers, book authors and prospective book review authors, please enquire with one of the CLLPJ’s Book Review Editors.

Book Review Editor for legal topics:
Renée-Claude Drouin
Professor of Law, University of Montreal, Canada
Email: renee-claude.drouin@umontreal.ca

Book Review Editor for non-law, policy topics:
Barry Eidlin
Associate Professor of Sociology, McGill University, Canada
Email: barry.edilin@mcgill.ca

Dispatches

A dispatch is a brief essay, ordinarily not to exceed 2500 words (inclusive of in-text citations, footnotes and references), describing a significant development in national labor law: legislative, judicial, administrative. The importance of the development in domestic context should be explained; the reasons for transnational interest might be suggested.

Proposed dispatches should be submitted to the Dispatches Editors. Dispatches are not peer reviewed but are subject to review and approval by the Dispatches Editors and the General Editors.

Dispatches Editors:

Kalina Arabadjieva
Senior Researcher, European Trade Union Institute
Email: karabadijeva@etui.org

Sean Cooney
Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
Email: s.cooney@unimelb.edu.au

Special Issues

The CLLPJ invites prospective guest editors to submit a proposal for a special issue. Special issues should be designed to stimulate thought and debate on a particular topic in international law or to provide a comparative examination of a particular subject from the perspectives of different jurisdictions and authors.

A special issue may involve a call for papers issued through the Journal and other scholarly networks, it may be founded in a workshop or conference panel, or it may be an independent initiative. In all cases, special issue contributions will be subject to the Journal’s double-anonymous peer review process. Generally special issues will be composed of not more than six articles in addition to the guest editor’s brief introduction.

The special issue process is as follows:

1. Prepare a Proposal
Special issues typically have two guest editors, although it is possible to have a single guest editor. The CLLPJ will not typically accept special issue proposals contemplating more than two guest editors.

Guest editors are responsible for preparing and submitting the special issue proposal to the CLLPJ. Proposals are to be approximately 1000 words in length, and must include the following:

A proposed title for the special issue.
A brief justification for the special issue.
A description of the guest editor(s).
The guest editor(s) plan for the special issue, including an outline of the special issue, an explanation of how manuscripts will be solicited, and a timeline setting out the various deadlines. Where potential contributors have already been solicited, the plan should also include the identity and affiliation of each potential contributor and a working title for the contribution.

2. Submission and Review of Proposal
Guest editors are to submit proposals via email to: cllpj@osgoode.yorku.ca

The CLLPJ will review proposals, and the General Editors make the final decision on whether to accept a proposal.

3. Successful Proposals
Where the CLLPJ accepts the special issue proposal, the guest editor(s) are then responsible for the following:

Adhering to review and publication time-lines.
Soliciting and receiving submissions. An invitation to participate in a special issue is not a guarantee of publication and guest editor(s) are to ensure authors are aware of this.
For each manuscript submitted, recommending whether to the manuscript should proceed to the peer review process.
Selecting peer reviewers for each manuscript and corresponding with the peer reviewers. Guest editor(s) shall maintain the anonymity of the peer review system.
Receive reviewers’ reports and prepare comments and suggestions for authors.
Recommend to the Journal whether to accept or reject each manuscript. The General Editors reserve the right to make final decisions on whether each manuscript proceeds and whether to accept or reject each manuscript.
Produce a brief (maximum 2000 words) introduction to the special issue. Introductions are not peer-reviewed but are reviewed internally by the Journal.

Copyright & Open Access

The Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal is an open access journal that is freely available online, as of Volume 45, Number 1. (Previous issues are archived at: https://cllpj.law.illinois.edu/past-issues and on HeinOnline).

As set out in the Author’s Agreement authors retain copyright, but grant permission to the CLLPJ to publish work under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0(CC) licence.

Author Self-Archiving Policy

The CLLPJ permits authors to deposit their accepted, pre-print contributions to an online repository such as SSRN. Post-print, authors are permitted to archive or self archive their contribution in an institutional repository. Where an author wishes to republish a contribution, they must clearly state that the initial publication was made in the CLLPJ and must include both a citation and link to the CLLPJ webpage containing that contribution.

Please note that once a contribution is submitted, it is bound by the CLLPJ’s exclusive submission policy.