A Brief Note from the New Editors

• Date: 01 March 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12260
• Published date: 01 March 2017

A Brief Note from the New Editors

Jeannine Bell

Susan Sterett

Welcome to Volume 51, Issue 1—the first issue edited by our

binational, cross-disciplinary team. We would like to begin this

issue by thanking the outgoing editors, by introducing ourselves,

and by offering a brief overview of important editorial principles

for our team.

The journal comes to us after excellent editing work by Tim

Johnson and Joachim Savelsberg. Tim and Joachim continue to

share great advice for the transition, and have prepared us well

to deal with the many issues that arise day-to-day in the job of

editing a journal. Tim and Joachim’s three-year tenure at Law &

Society Review saw the publication of many wonderful articles and

issues, including the 50th anniversary issue celebrating LSR’s

golden anniversary. The LSR’s continuing high impact factor is

compelling evidence of Tim and Joachim’s careful stewardship.

Although any new editorship team necessarily involves transition,

we will continue many long-standing practices. We continue to

look for top quality, innovative scholarship to publish, and to pro-

vide effective and full reviewer response to the manuscripts sub-

mitted to us. But our new team brings a unique sense of energy

and perspective stemming from the team’s structure. We are the

first team that is a triad—three scholars at three separate institu-

tions (Indiana University, Virginia Tech, University of British

Colombia), two located in different areas of the United States,

and one in Canada. We represent different perspectives and his-

tory in the field and in our profession. Two of us are political sci-

entists, two of us teach in law schools as interdisciplinary legal

scholars, one of us teaches in a public policy school. We hope

that these three different sites of editorial leadership allow us to

contribute to the work our predecessors have done broadening

LSR’s reach.

As scholars, one of our common points is an interest in how

individuals respond to the construction by law of subject posi-

tions. Canadian legal scholars have been particularly engaged in

exploring indigenous legal questions and Margot Young brings a

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