Dan Lowenstein just posted the following on the election law listserv:
In 2004, Rick Hasen and I solicited papers on issues arising out of that year’s election. The resulting symposium was published in the Election Law Journal in June, 2006. We propose a similar symposium relating to this year’s election, though we are hoping we will be able to publish it in our final 2009 issue, scheduled for October.
This is a call for papers for that ELJ symposium. The papers can be on any subject that has arisen in this year’s election, including but not limited to the presidential election. Congressional, state and local, and ballot measure elections would all be within the scope of the symposium. Articles may be oriented toward policy or law. Empirical studies bearing on pertinent issues are also welcome. We anticipate that the papers in the symposium will focus on the American election, but would not rule out the possibility of a comparative paper. You can find the Table of Contents for the previous symposium here: http://www.liebertonline.com/toc/elj/5/2.
Papers for the ELJ symposium will go through our usual peer-review process. The deadline for their submission will be April 15, 2009. In order to facilitate our planning of the symposium, we would appreciate your submitting a proposal or abstract by December 15, 2008. You can submit a paper without having submitted the advance proposal, but if we receive more publishable papers than we can publish in the symposium, we will give some preference to authors who submitted an advance proposal. Of course, if you write a paper that would fit into this symposium but do not have it completed by the April 15 deadline, you can submit it in the ordinary course for publication apart from the symposium. If circumstances require, we might extend the deadline and publish the symposium in a later issue, but April 15 stands unless we announce otherwise. Potential authors should feel free to submit queries in advance of submitting their proposals, abstracts, or manuscripts for review.
Articles should be accessible and of interest to government officials, practicing lawyers, journalists, academics from various disciplines including law, political science, public policy, history, and economics, and others with an interest in electoral institutions, law, and administration. Articles should be written in a cogent style, appropriate to the reader groups identified above. Documentation should be provided to the extent necessary, but otherwise articles should not be heavily footnoted. Published articles ordinarily will not exceed 20,000 words, and articles of 15,000 words or less are preferred. We do not require a particular style for references. You may use law school “Blue Book” style, the style manual of the American Political Science Association, or any other style containing necessary bibliographic information and understandable to readers from a variety of professions and disciplinary backgrounds. If the manuscript contains self-identifying references, a redacted version should be sent to facilitate anonymous review.
As many of you know, ELJ has recently begun using an automated system for submission of papers and for peer review. You can access the system here: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/electionlaw. If you have not previously used the system you will be required to register. If you have any difficulty with the system, let me and Rick know. We are still struggling with it, but there are a couple of employees of the publisher who respond promptly and helpfully when problems arise.