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WRLSI Call for Submissions 2015

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WRLSI Call for Submissions 2015

Call for Submissions

The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues is soliciting contributions for volume 37, to be published in early 2016.

About Us

We invite you to submit original articles, book reviews, and comments on recent cases or legislation.

The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues is an entirely student-run and peer-reviewed interdisciplinary law journal. As a non-traditional law journal, our mandate is to promote an analytical, practical, and empirical approach to the study of law, which incorporates the perspectives of multiple disciplines, in order to utilize the study of law as a vehicle for social justice.  Our journal is a resource for lawyers, students, academics, professionals, adjudicators, and public policy makers. Copies of the journal can be found in libraries worldwide and through electronic databases such as Westlaw, HeinOnline, and Quicklaw/LexisNexis.

Submissions should conform to the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (8th Edition). Please visit our webpage at http://www.uwindsor.ca/wrlsi/ for further submission guidelines.

 How to Submit

Please email your manuscript in Microsoft Word format to wrlsisolicitations@uwindsor.ca. Questions may be directed to that same address.

 Deadline

The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2015. Submissions received after the deadline will continue to be reviewed by the Editorial Board on a rolling basis.

Cynthia Khoo, “‘To Be’ Is A Verb: Rewriting Law Through Embodied Reform

Digital Companion

Just like the human body is composed of approximately seventy percent water, the corpus juris that regulates our lives is arguably composed of seventy percent social norms, cultural values, and narratives, grand and banal. We encounter these elements through lived experience, which is also embodied experience. In the same way that personal trainers say, “you are what you eat”, one might suggest that you are what you legislate or obey. The law has a profound impact on our bodies: how we view our own bodies and other people’s bodies; how we relate to our own bodies; and how we move in and use—or do not use—our bodies. By extension, the various forms of oppression inherent in the law become inscribed upon, absorbed into, and perpetuated by our bodies, through the same social norms, cultural values, and narratives that constitute and mediate law in our lives. This process evokes the image of a massive, sprawling, intricate feedback loop, deeply embedded into the fabric of law and society. However, this feedback loop is inherently unstable, and requires continual input. This instability, as performer and LLM graduate Julie Lassonde points out, creates a “few centimetres of leeway” for change. This paper is about those few centimetres.

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