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Founded in 1985 by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) and housed at the School of Law, University of Witwatersand, Johannesburg, the SAJHR is the leading South African public law journal, publishing scholarship of the highest standard for a worldwide readership. The journal is published by CALS and Juta & Co, Cape Town. The Journal appears three times a year.
One of the oldest public law journals in South Africa, the SAJHR was ranked as the most widely cited South African law journal in Washington and Lee University's study of most-cited legal periodicals.
The journal is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship on human rights, justice and public law in South Africa and the region. The editors welcome submissions of relevance to Southern Africa and dealing with human rights, legal philosophy, constitutional and administrative law, access to information, law and development and public international law. Submissions taking an interdisciplinary and/or empirical approach to these subjects are also encouraged.
Editorial offices
The editorial offices of the Journal are located at the following address:
The Editors South African Journal on Human Rights Centre for Applied Legal Studies University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Wits 2050 South Africa
Fax: 27-11-403-2341 email: sajhr@law.wits.ac.za
Guide to contributors
Correspondence, books for review and all other communications should be directed to the above address. Contributions must be submitted via Scholar One. Scholar One is an electronic management system used by the Journal in its handling of all submissions.
Submissions are evaluated by the editors for conformity to the editorial policy and are peer reviewed anonymously before publication.
The SAJHR is indexed by ISAP (Index to South African Periodicals) and IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences). It is accredited by the South African Department of Education for subsidy purposes.
Submissions to the SAJHR should comply with the following requirements:
- The submission must be in English, must be an original, unpublished work and should not simultaneously be submitted for publication elsewhere.
- Article submissions should not, in general, exceed 12 000 words (including footnotes). Article submissions must be accompanied by a paragraph-length abstract.
- Case notes and comments will be considered for the Cases and Comments section or for the Current Developments section of the Journal. Case notes and current development commentaries are typically fewer than 4000 words, including footnotes.
- Contributors are asked to refer to the Journal’s house style. Cases, statutes, literature and other sources should be cited accurately, in the correct format and checked by the author.
- The Journal does not accept unsolicited book reviews.
- For the Journal’s policy on SSRN, please email SAJHR@law.wits.ac.za.
Scholar One
The Journal is moving over to the electronic management system of Scholar One. Authors are requested to submit their work via Scholar One. Until August 2011, manuscripts should also be submitted by email in the form of a file attachment in any version of WordPerfect or Word or any ASCII-based word-processing program to the following address: sajhr@law.wits.ac.za.
Editors
The Journal has an Editorial Board and an Editorial Committee.
The Editorial Committee is composed of the editors who manage the day-to-day business of the Journal. As of July 2011, the SAJHR editors are:
Cathi Albertyn Tel: 27 11 717 8467 Email: Cathi.Albertyn@wits.ac.za
Lilian Chenwi Tel: 27 11 717 8465 email: Lillian.Chenwi@wits.ac.za
Jackie Dugard Tel: 27 11 356 5861 Email: Jackie@seri-sa.org
Ntombozuko Dyani Email: Ntombozuko.Dyani@wits.ac.za
Beth Goldblatt Email: b.goldblatt@unsw.edu.au
Raylene Keightley (Chair of the Editorial Board) Tel: 27 11 717 8622 email: Raylene.Keightley@wits.ac.za
Kirsty McLean Tel: 27 11 263 9000 email: Kirsty.McLean@wits.ac.za
Bonita Meyersfeld (Current Managing Editor) Tel: 27 11 717 8462 email: Bonita.Meyersfeld@wits.ac.za
Muriel Mushariwa (Book review editor) Tel: 27 11 717 8444 email: Muriel.Mushariwa@wits.ac.za
Sanele Sibanda Tel: 27 11 717 8485 email: Sanele.Sibanda@wits.ac.za
The Journal benefits from the administrative assistance of Di Stuart: distuart@telkomsa.net.
Subscriptions
2009 subscription rates, subscription enquiries and orders and requests for back issues should be directed to the following address:
Juta & Co Ltd Customer Services PO Box 14373 Lansdowne 7780 Head Office 1st Floor, Sunclare Building 21 Dreyer Street, Claremont Cape Town, South Africa Telephone: 27 21 659 2300 Fax: 27 21 659 2360 E-mail: cserv@juta.co.za
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