Students For Liberty

Description

The Journal of Liberty and Society is Students For Liberty’s annual academic journal for undergraduates.  The purpose of this journal is to encourage academic work surrounding the topic of liberty and its role in society for undergraduates everywhere. The Journal of Liberty and Society is a peer-reviewed journal. For additional background on the journal’s founding, please read the letter from the founding editor.

2010 Journal Call for Papers

The Journal of Liberty and Society is proud to welcome submissions for its second edition to be published in Spring 2010!  Under the guidance of our new Editor-in-Chief, Carlo Ludovico Cordasco at the University of Pisa, the second edition of the Journal of Liberty and Society will be undergoing significant growth to encourage scholarly undergraduate work on the issue of liberty.  Submissions to the journal’s second edition will be accepted through February 19, 2010, but early papers will receive more careful scrutiny due to time allowances.  Download the call for papers here:

2010 Journal of Liberty and Society Call for Papers

Faculty Committee

The Journal of Liberty and Society Faculty Committee is an innovation for the second edition.  This international committee brings together leading scholars on the issue of liberty in a diversity of fields.  In addition to guiding the growth of the journal, members of the Faculty Committee will review submitted papers to the Journal of Liberty and Society to provide an experienced scholar’s input in addition to the traditional peer reviews that the journal provides.  The full list of members of the Faculty Committee are provided below.  More information on the Committee, including member bios are available here.

Dr. Michele Boldrin, Washington University in St. Louis (United States)

Dr. Raimondo Cubeddu, Universityof Pisa (Italy)

Dr. Valerio Filoso, University of Naples (Italy)

Dr. Bill Glod, Institute for Humane Studies (United States)

Dr. Bradley K. Hobbs, Florida Gulf Coast University (United States)

Dr. Lorenzo Infantino, Luiss University (Italy)

Dr. Carlo Lottieri, University of Siena (Italy)

Dr. Antonio Masala, IMT, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy)

Dr. Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University (United States

Dr. Pietro Navarra, University of Messina & London School of Economics (United Kingdom)

Dr. Aeon J. Skoble, Bridgewater State University (United States)

Dr. Jesús Huerta de Soto, Rey Juane Carlos University (Spain)

Prometheus Institute Awards

The Journal of Liberty and Society will once again recognize the best submitted papers to the journal with the annual Prometheus Institute Awards.  These awards include cash prizes of $500 for the Top Paper and $100 for each of two Honorable Mentions, as well as offers to all award recipients to join the Prometheus Institute staff for the Fall 2010 semester.  These awards are given to the submissions that show the greatest clarity of thought, originality, intellectual skill, and connection of liberty to important social or theoretical issues.

The Prometheus Institute Awards are sponsored by the Prometheus Institute, a public policy organization dedicated to discovering independent policy solutions to pressing national issues, and creatively marketing these ideas to the people of the United States, especially the younger generations. Existing policy organizations generally seek to forward their ideas through elite scholarship and occasional congressional testimony, but rarely through popular means. The Prometheus Institute is the first public policy organization dedicated to utilizing the power of marketing to empower the citizenry with the tools and knowledge to advocate for policy change. Through issue-oriented initiatives and other innovative programs, the Institute is constantly pursuing the cutting edge in public policy advocacy.

Submission Guidelines

• All papers should be submitted via email to journal@studentsforliberty.org as an attachment in Microsoft Word format.
• Any enrolled undergraduate student may submit a paper.
• All papers must be approved by a professor before submitted.
• The deadline for submission is February 19th, 2010. Early submissions are encouraged.
• Submissions should be at most 20 pages (double spaced) in length.
• Papers must be in Microsoft Word format, size 12 times new roman font.
• Papers should follow MLA formatting and include an abstract.
• Papers in any academic discipline may be submitted. The only limitation on subjects is that paper must be related to liberty or an issue that concerns liberty.
• Please include information on yourself and the professor who has approved your paper on a separate title page. This should include name, email, phone number, mailing address, college, major/department and year of expected graduation (student only). Do not include author information on the individual pages of the submitted paper so that they may be blind reviewed.

2009 Volume

The first volume of the Journal of Liberty and Society was published in May 2009.  Read the abstracts, find out the Prometheus Institute winners, and download the whole journal here.