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Amicus Journal
Notes for Contributors

Amicus Journal
The Amicus Journal is a leading reporter on the significant issues affecting capital punishment worldwide, and provides a forum for dialogue on issues concerning the death penalty and related topics. The Journal includes articles written by academics and practitioners on current legal issues and on the death penalty from the perspective of disciplines other than law. It also features news from around the world, case reports, book reviews, and front line reportage from interns working in capital defence offices.

The Amicus Journal is published three times a year, with the possibility of a fourth issue if there is sufficient material and resources permit. Members of Amicus receive a complimentary copy of each issue of the Journal that is published while their subscription is current. (For subscribers at the student rate, this is an electronic copy only.) Please contact Amicus for back issues of the Journal.

Click to see contents pages for Issue 13, Issue 14, Issue 15 and Isssue 16 of the Journal. Issues 17 and 18 will be posted shortly.

Contributions to the Amicus Journal are not merely welcomed but positively encouraged. See the Notes for Contributors below.

Notes for contributors
We welcome articles concerning legal issues relating to the death penalty in all jurisdictions around the world. The Critical Approaches to the Death Penalty section also provides contributors with the opportunity to scrutinise death penalty issues theoretically and from the standpoint of disciplines other than law. Accordingly, we welcome submissions engaging in the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, psychology, economics, politics, religion, feminism, anthropology and literature.

We also welcome case reports, intern reports from death penalty offices, and reviews of books which concern the death penalty, both academic and literature. We shall be publishing Letters to the Editor and we encourage contributors to engage in a dialogue with all aspects of the death penalty, and also to comment on the Amicus Journal and our Amicus charity. Furthermore, we welcome short entrants for our Worldwide Overview and contributors are welcome to submit jurisdictional developments to be included here.

Please refer to the articles submitted in the journal for our house style. All points of law and fact are to be supported through footnote citation to authorities. Citations are to comply with the Blue Book citations. The title is to appear in capital BOLD and the chapter headings are to appear in normal case bold, and sub-headings in bold italics. The author’s name should appear in italics with an asterisk (*) footnote symbol, detailing professional position or affiliation.

Main Articles: Between 5,000-8,000 words.

Shorter Articles and Case Commentaries: Between 2,000-3,000 words.

Book Reviews: Up to 1,000 words per book.

Letters to the Editor: Up to 800 words.

Worldwide Overview: Up to 100 words.

The Amicus Journal is to be cited as (date) (edition number) Amicus Journal (page). For example, Stephen Hellman, What Happens When the “Right” Principle of Interpretation Produces the “Wrong” Result, (2005) 11 Amicus Journal 16.

Please send letters or other contributions to either of the Joint Editors, Jon Yorke at jon.yorke@warwick.ac.uk or Stephen Hellman at SHellman@furnivallaw.co.uk.

The charity is designed to assist in the provision of legal representation for those awaiting capital trial and punishment in the US.

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