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Oslo Law Review (OsLaw) was established in 2014, and publishes research articles from all areas of legal scholarship, as well as interdisciplinary articles or articles that engage with law from the perspective of other related disciplines (e.g. political science, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and philosophy). The journal aims to provide an open access forum for high quality academic discourse on legal issues. Its remit includes discussing Norwegian and Nordic legal phenomena.
The journal’s target groups are legal scholars and other researchers with an interest in legal topics. The journal may also be of interest to law students, practising lawyers, judges, political decision makers, the media and a broader reading public.
The journal publishes articles in English.
The journal is published by Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget) on behalf of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo.
All articles that are considered by the editors to be relevant for publication in the journal are reviewed by at least one anonymous academic referee with no ties to the author. The final decision regarding publication of the article is made by the editors-in-chief. The journal practises ‘double blind’ peer review, whereby both the reviewer and the author remain anonymous to each other.
Oslo Law Review is a scholarly journal with open access, with no subscription charges or registration restrictions. All content is freely available online.
As an author for this journal, you retain copyright and publishing rights to your own article without restrictions, and you grant any third party the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of your article in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Authors are not required to pay article processing charges (APCs) or article submission charges.
Oslo Law Review is an open access, peer-reviewed law journal with an international compass, published by Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget) on behalf of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. The journal welcomes original, high-quality articles from all areas of legal scholarship, as well as interdisciplinary articles or articles from other disciplines that engage with law (e.g. political science, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and philosophy).
Only manuscripts which follow the guidelines below will be assessed for publication.
All submissions to the journal should be sent to the editors at oslolawreview@jus.uio.no.
The journal uses double blind peer review of manuscripts. Manuscripts must therefore be anonymised by the author(s). Information about the author(s) must be provided in a separate document. All explicit references to one’s own publication should be anonymised.
The manuscript should be submitted in a standard format, with a 'Normal' style setting. Font should be Times New Roman, 12 pt. Text should be double spaced, with 2.5 cm margins and aligned to the left.
The manuscript should be no longer than 70,000 characters (with spaces), including endnotes and references.
The start of a new paragraph should be marked by an empty line. Authors may utilise a maximum of three heading levels.
Notes in the manuscript should be organised as endnotes when using regular word processing software.
The appropriate permissions must have been obtained for all figures and tables in the manuscript. If someone other than the author has created a figure or table, the name of the source should be stated in the text. The author is responsible for obtaining the permission to use previously published illustrations. Placing of figures and tables in the text should be marked in the manuscript.
Authors should adopt UK spelling and punctuation conventions except in quotations from other sources.
For quotations, use single inverted commas (and doubles for quotations inside a quotation).
All headings and sub‐headings should be capitalised.
Secondary level headings should directly follow primary headings. For instance, Heading 3.1 would directly follow heading 3, with no intervening text.
The use of capitalisation should be minimal; however, ‘State’, ‘Article and ‘Act’ should be capitalised.
Contractions will have no full points (e.g. Mr, St, edn,), with the exception of abbreviated words which do not end with their final letter, and their plural forms (e.g., vol., vols., ed., eds.).
The abbreviation for ‘for example’ should have full points (e.g.).
Acronyms and abbreviations in capitals should not have full points: NATO, USA, EU, BC.
Quotations should be kept to a minimum and lengthy quotations should be avoided.
Quotations of more than approximately sixty words should be set apart from the main text (indented with extra space above and below).
Line references should be either number alone (‘78-82’), or ‘lines 78-82’. Do not use ‘ll.’, which can be confused for II or 11.
Quotations of prose passages from a foreign language should be given in English only, using either an official or otherwise established translation or a new one of your own (with an indication as to whether or not the translation is your own).
When a short quotation in a foreign language is essential, it should be followed directly (not in the notes) with an English translation, placed in square brackets.
When words are omitted in a quotation, this should be done by using three full stops, the first full stop being preceded by a space (‘ …’).
These author guidelines are based on the Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA). Please consult the full OSCOLA document for guidelines not covered here, a concise guide is also available.
Endnotes should be kept brief.
All endnotes should be followed by a full point.
The first citation of a reference should be given in full and any subsequent cross-citations should be given in a shortened form giving author and endnote number.
1 Robert Stevens, Torts and Rights (OUP 2007).
References to online sources should always include DOI references where possible. (DOI: digital object identifier.) The DOI reference should be accessible by clicking on the URL. If you are not sure about the DOI code for a reference, you can search for it here (search using title or author name): http://search.crossref.org/.
Linda Barclay, ‘Justice and Disability: What Kind of Theorizing Is Needed?’ (2011) 42 J. Soc. Philos. 273 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9833.2011.01533.x> accessed 8 December 2016.
Journal names should be italicised.
Main words in publication title (and sub‐title) should be capitalised, with the exception of words such as ‘of’, ‘and’, ‘in’ and so on.
Article titles should be in single quotation marks and not in italics.
Both issue and volume number should be cited for all articles.
When citing newspaper articles, give the author, the title, the name of the newspaper in italics and then in brackets the city of publication and the date.
Some newspapers have ‘The’ in the title and some do not, the references should reflect this and should include ‘The’ whenever relevant.
The page‐range is required when referring to chapters in books or anthologies (hence both first and last page required).
URLs (web addresses) to be given in full and within angled quotation marks < >.
Include ‘http://’ only if the web address does not begin with ‘www’.
Websites should be checked to ensure they are still active and the (latest) date accessed should then be given at the end of the reference, after the URL.
If you source a publication online that is also available in hard copy, cite the hard copy version. There is no need to cite an electronic source for such a publication.
Internet references should be complete and comprehensive, with full title, author (or authors), name of website and publication date (when available).
When citing online newspaper articles, give the author, the title, the name of the newspaper in italics and then in brackets the city of publication and the date (the same as when citing newspaper articles in general), followed by the URL and date of access.
When referring to legislation then full and comprehensive details should be given, rather than a URL reference alone, as with any other reference to legal sources.
Whenever available, when referring to sources previously published online, a DOI number is to be provided (Digital Object Identifier). See note on DOI above.
Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law (2nd ed., Pearson 2010).
author, ∣ ‘title’ ∣ in editor (ed.) ∣ book title ∣ (additional information, publisher ∣ year) ∣ page‐range of chapter.
Justine Pila, ‘The Value of Authorship in the Digital Environment’ in William H Dutton and Paul W Jeffreys (eds.), World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities in the Century of Information (MIT Press 2010) 56‐78.
author, ∣ ‘title’ ∣ [year] ∣ journal name or abbreviation ∣ first page of article.
author, ∣ ‘title’ ∣ (year) ∣ volume ∣ journal name or abbreviation ∣ first page of article. Alison L Young, ‘In Defence of Due Deference’ (2009) 72 MLR 554.
For online article journals, include the URL and date accessed (in the following format): Graham Greenleaf, ‘The Global Development of Free Access to Legal Information’ (2010) 1(1) EJLT <www.ejlt.org/article/view/17> accessed 27 July 2010.
Sarah Cole, ‘Virtual Friend Fires Employee’ (Naked Law, 1 May 2009) <www.nakedlaw.com/2009/05/index.html> accessed 19 November 2009.
Jane Croft, ‘Supreme Court Warns on Quality’ Financial Times (London, 1 July 2010) 3.
Ian Loader, ‘The Great Victim of this Get Tough Hyperactivity is Labour’ The Guardian (London, 19 June 2008 <www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/19/justice.ukcrime> accessed 19 November 2009.
Government of the RSA v Grootboom 2001 (1) SA 46 (CC).
If the names of the parties are included in the citation (e.g. Chapman v United Kingdom) or the case has an official title (e.g. Numerus Clausus Case) then these should be accordingly italicised.
A full account of cases from European institutions can be found in the Oxford style guidelines.
name of case (in italics) ∣ application number ∣ paragraph number (for judgments) ∣ ECHR ∣ year ∣ number of volume.
[GC] is added if the judgment or decision has been given by the Grand Chamber of the Court.
We refer authors to a master list detailing exact citation of ECHR Case‐law References of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Published Decisions, available at http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Case_law_references_ENG.pdf.
Authors are also reminded that full points in contractions are to be removed, in line with the guidelines laid out above (see Contractions, abbreviations and acronyms). Accordingly, abbreviations are not followed by a full point: versus is to be written 'v' not 'v.'; 'no' not 'no.' is the abbreviation of number and so forth. Please note, any initials in case names are not to be written with full points either.
Judgment on the merits delivered by a Chamber Campbell v Ireland, no 45678/98, § 24, ECHR 1999‐II.
Judgment on the merits delivered by the Grand Chamber Campbell v Ireland [GC], no 45678/98, § 24, ECHR 1999‐II.
Decision on admissibility delivered by the Grand Chamber Campbell v Ireland (dec) [GC], no 45678/98, ECHR 1999‐II.
Judgment on preliminary objections delivered by a Chamber Campbell v Ireland (preliminary objections), no 45678/98, § 15, ECHR 1999‐II.
Names of judgments and decisions of the old Court and the names of decisions of the Commission should appear in italics and the mode of citation has been changed slightly.
Plattform “Ärtze für das Leben” v Austria, 21 June 1988, § 31, Series A no 139.
Delta v France (Article 50), 30 January 1990, § 38, Series A no 191‐A.
Allenet de Ribemont v France (interpretation), 7 August 1996, § 17, Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1996‐III.
Gustafsson v Sweden (revision – merits), 30 July 1998, § 28, Reports 1998‐V.
Moreira de Azevedo v Portugal, no 11296/84, Commission decision of 14 April 1988, Decisions and Reports 56, p 126.
Where the title of a judgment or decision includes the name of a newspaper or other publication, such name will appear in roman, as is already the case with judgments and decisions of the new Court.
The Sunday Times v the United Kingdom (Article 50), 6 November 1980, § 22, Series A no 38.
National laws and international treaties should not be italicised.
The editors do not take responsibility for filing or returning copies of submitted manuscripts.

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