Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law

OSJCL Updates (updated 11/13/2009)

The Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law is a peer-evaluated, faculty-student cooperative venture published by The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law. The journal is published semi-annually and is a forum for important scholarship written by academics and professionals in the criminal justice field.

The journal's purpose, through its symposium, commentary, and book and cultural review sections, is to provide useful and serious, but also interesting and provocative, discourse on critical issues in the field of criminal justice.

Each issue will include solicited scholarly articles, in a symposium format with a Guest Editor, focusing on an important topic in the criminal justice field, and written by experts on the subject. Each issue will also contain a Commentary section with briefer essays: provocative reflections on the criminal law that are less formal in structure, shorter on footnotes but long on insight. The journal will also publish reviews of books, empirical studies, criminal justice reports, and even of movies and other media. Finally, on occasion we will publish high-quality essays written by students of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

We are confident that you will find the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law a useful and stimulating part of your criminal justice world. We invite you to come regularly to this web site, but, more importantly, to become a regular reader of, and subscribe to, the journal.