Focus and scope
The Theory and Critics of Social Regulation (TCRS) journal aims to develop a research on philosophy of law and in general on critical theory in the social sciences and philosophy. Hereafter are the most important research topics of the journal: hermeneutics, epistemology and legal aesthetics, “law and literature”, rhetoric and legal arguments, “law and humanities” and “critical studies”, bioethics and new technologies.
The research program is based on the necessity to critically analyze the social bond institutive processes. The hypothesis is that the study of these processes requires the elaboration of a general theory of law and institutions that should be able to surmount the nationalistic paradigm, on the basis of critical remarks on current problems, such as: symbolic forms and social bond; European identity; post-national legitimacy; forms of governance and procedural turn; crisis of regulation processes and new models of subjective identity.
Theory and Critics of Social Regulation (TCRS) is an open access journal.
Theory and Critics of Social Regulation (TCRS) is ranked as a class A journal by ANVUR (the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) in the Area 12, GIUR-17/A: Philosophy of Law; and Area 14, SPS-01/A: Political Philosophy.
Peer review process
All research manuscripts submitted to Theory and Criticism of Social Regulation are first assessed by the Editors and/or the Editorial Board in order to verify their relevance to the journal’s aims and scope and their compliance with formal requirements.
Manuscripts deemed suitable are submitted to a double-blind peer review process. Each article is reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, selected on the basis of their specific scholarly expertise in relation to the subject matter of the manuscript. The identities of authors and reviewers are not disclosed to each other.
On the basis of the reviewers’ reports, the Editors and/or the Editorial Board make one of the following decisions: acceptance, acceptance subject to minor revisions, request for substantial revision, or rejection. In the event of significantly divergent reports, the journal may seek the opinion of a third reviewer.
Articles published in monographic issues or special issues undergo the same peer review process, under the responsibility of the journal’s Editors. Any content not subject to peer review, such as editorials, introductions, book reviews or informational notes, is clearly identified as such.
Publication Frequency
Theory and Critics of Social Regulation (TCRS) is biannual.
Authors have to submit articles for the Essays (Miscellaneous), and Notes sections to the journal at any time. They will be published once the referee’s process is over, in the provisional graphic form sent by the author in the ‘Latest articles’ section, and then inserted in the Essays and Notes sections in the Issue following their publication.
Privacy
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Open Access Policy & Copyright Notice
Theory and Critics of Social Regulation (TCRS) is an open access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-4.0).
This license allows anyone to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and also to adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
The works must be properly attributed to its author.
Authors who publish on this journal don’t maintain the copyrights which are transferred to the publisher.
Fees
TCRS does not charge submission fees, article processing charges — APCs —, editorial processing fees or any other fees to authors.
Archiving
Theory and Critics of Social Regulation (TCRS) is experimenting the PKP Preservation Network.