International Journal of Legal Information Design  (IJLID)
ISSN (Online): 1750-8150  -  ISSN (Print): 1750-8142

Published in 4 issues per year  (View Subscription Price)

IJLID is a multidisciplinary journal concerned with the audio, visual, and audio-visual design of legal information. It seeks to promote and enhance discussion on (re)designing legal information by addressing both theoretical and practical issues. It is highly relevant to reforming and revitalising the discourses and practices involved.

   Objectives

IJLID aims at establishing a multidisciplinary forum where scholars, practitioners, policy makers and legislators discuss the audio, visual and audio-visual (re)design of legal information.

Here, legal information refers either to the process of providing or gathering information in relation to legal or legally relevant knowledge, or to the contents themselves, that is, the legal or legally relevant knowledge conveyed. Legal or legally relevant knowledge relates to contents that have been legislated (what the law is/de lege lata) or require legislation (what the law ought to be/de lege ferenda), or to explanations of these two contents or to contents of the legal or legally relevant discourse. Design refers to producing legal information so that it can be listened to, read and viewed, or to the product of this creative process. Redesign refers to reproducing (remaking) legal information so that it can be listened to, read and viewed, or to the reproduction (remaking) of this creative process.

It is a core concern of IJLID that legal information will be easier to understand and to use, especially in business, the public sector (legislation, administration, jurisdiction), society and technology. IJLID aims at promoting the successful communication of legal information in all of these areas. Specifically, this involves conceiving new prerequisites for (re)designing legal information and for analysing, evaluating and, if necessary, reconceiving already designed legal information. This applies to spoken, written and visualised legal information as well as to legal information designed to be spoken, written or visualised.

IJLID also aims at exploring the cultural, economic, legal, social and technological foundations of (re)designing legal information as well as the historical basis of (re)designing legal information. Moreover, the purpose of IJLID is to debate new legislation regarding the (re)design of legal information, particularly with regard to the multicoding potential of new information and communication technologies (ICT). Here, multicoding potential refers to the capacity of ICT to encode information verbally, iconically and acoustically.

IJLID welcomes contributions from those representing disciplines and practices concerned with (legal) information design. Contributions striving to integrate basic and applied research into legal discourse and practice are particularly welcome. Such disciplines and practices include communication studies, counselling studies, digital storytelling, drama studies, education science, e-government, e-learning, graphic design, history, iconography, iconology, information management, knowledge management, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, narratology, psychology, semiotics, sociology, typography, visual communication, etc. Contributions from scholars and practitioners researching the interface of the law with the fields just mentioned or others are also welcome, as well as contributions from scholars researching the fundamentals of the law, such as legal history, legal philosophy, legal sociology, legal theory, legal visualisation, etc.

IJLID is thus committed to enriching and perhaps reforming the – mainly logocentric – practices currently adopted in legal information design.

   Readership

IJLID assumes the role of a vehicle to enable scholars and practitioners working in the field of legal information design, as well as policy makers and legislators, to disseminate information and to learn from each other's work.

   Contents

IJLID publishes original papers, review papers, general reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, news, etc. Special Issues devoted to important topics in legal information design will occasionally be published.

   Subject Coverage

There is a large range of topics to be covered. We encourage submission of any contribution within the scope of legal information design. The following subjects are particularly suitable; the list is not, however, exhaustive:

• Legal information (re)design and
• communication studies
• counselling studies
• (digital) storytelling
• drama studies
• education science
• e-government
• e-learning
• graphic design
• history
• iconography and iconology
• information management
• knowledge management
• linguistics
• literary studies
• media studies
• narratology
• philosophy
• psychology
• semiotics
• sociology
• typography
• visual communication

As legal information design can be combined thematically with the disciplines mentioned above, other subjects arise, such as:

• Analysing and evaluating audio, visual, and audio-visual legal information
• Cognition and legal information (re)design
• Cultural, economic, social, and technological foundations of (re)designing legal information
• Emotion and legal information (re)design
• Law and image
• Law and film
• Legal information (re)design in the public sector: administration, jurisdiction, legislation
• Legal visualisations, such as charts, diagrams, images, layout, tables, and pictograms
• Legislation and legal information (re)design
• Legislating (re)design of legal information
• Memory and legal information (re)design
• Motivation and legal information (re)design
• (Online) role-playing and legal information (re)design
• Producing audio, visual, and audio-visual legal information
• Reconceiving spoken, visualised, or written legal information
• (Re)designing legal information as (digital) legal information-stories
• (Re)designing legal information as plays

   Specific Notes for Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted). All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted manuscript. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors is available.

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines web-page.

To submit a paper, please go to Submissions of Papers

All papers must be submitted online. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your email the title of the Journal.

   Editors and Members of the Editorial Board

Editor in Chief

Dr. Colette R. Brunschwig
University of Zurich
Department of Law
Centre for Legal History, Legal Visualisation Unit
Rämistrasse 74, PO Box 52
8001 Zurich
SWITZERLAND
colette.brunschwigrwi.uzh.ch

Associate Editor

Burkhard Schafer
Edinburgh University
School of Law
Old College
Edinburgh EH8 9YL
UK

Editorial Board Members

Prof. El Sayed Abou ZeidEl
Concordia University
John Molson School of Business
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8
CANADA

Prof. Lior BarshackLi
The Interdisciplinary Center
Radzyner School of Law
PO Box 167
Herzliya 46150
ISRAEL

Prof. Jon BingJo
Director, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law; Editor, Lov&data
University of Oslo
Faculty of Law
PO Box 6706
St. Olavs pl 5
NO-0130 Oslo
NORWAY

Prof. Costas DouzinasCo
Managing Editor, Law and Critique; Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Birkbeck, University of London
School of Law
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
UK

Prof. Peter GoodrichPe
Editor-in-Chief, Law and Critique
Yeshiva University
Cardozo School of Law
55 Fifth Avenue
New York NY 10003
USA

Prof. Bernard J. HibbittsBe
Editor-in-Chief, Jurist - Legal News and Research; Associate Dean for Communications & Information Technology
University of Pittsburgh
School of Law
3900 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
USA

Prof. Bill MartinBi
Director of Research Programs
RMIT University
School of Business Information Technology
GPO Box 2476 V
Melbourne VIC 3001
AUSTRALIA

Dr. Hilary McLellanHi
Digital Storytelling Association Executive Committee Member; Partner
McLellan Wyatt Digital
101 North St.
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
USA

Prof. Dr. Reinhard RiedlRe
Head
University of Applied Sciences Bern
Centre of Competence for Public Management and E-Government
Morgartenstrasse 2a
PO Box 305
3022 Bern
SWITZERLAND

PD Dr. Regula Schmid KeelingRe
Historian, Staff Developer, University Teaching and Learning Centre
University of Zurich
Department of History
Karl Schmid-Strasse 4
8006 Zürich
SWITZERLAND

Dr. Cornelia VismannCo
Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte
Hausener Weg 120
60489 Frankfurt am Main
GERMANY

Prof. Sue WalkerSu
Head
University of Reading
Department of Typography and Graphic Communication
2 Earley Gate, Whiteknights
PO Box 239
Reading RG6 6AU
UK

Prof. David B. WexlerDa
Director, International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence
The University of Arizona
James E. Rogers College of Law
P.O. Box 210176
Tucson, AZ 85721-0176
USA

Dr. Kuan Yew WongKu
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
81310 UTM Skudai, Johor
MALAYSIA