The Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law have partnered to jointly publish Constitutional Studies. We relaunched the journal in 2025 as an international multilingual, open access journal, publishing issues biannually in June and December.
Mission
Constitutional Studies publishes work from a variety of disciplines addressing the theory and practice of constitutional government around the world. The journal engages scholars from diverse geographic and topical research areas to expand our collective understanding of constitutional democracy, formal and informal constitutional systems, constitutional jurisprudence, and related subjects in comparative constitutional studies.
Multilingual Scholarship
Constitutional Studies provides authors with the option to publish articles in multiple languages to reach and engage a global audience of constitutional law scholars and practitioners. This reflects our aim for Constitutional Studies to be a pathbreaking multilingual forum for sharing research and experience across a global community of constitutional scholars and practitioners. The journal provides two ways for authors to submit their work in multiple languages.
First, authors may submit their manuscripts in English, French, or Spanish, proceeding through all stages of the editorial, peer review, and publishing process in that language. The journal plans to expand the manuscript submission platform as soon as possible to also accept submissions in Arabic, Mandarin, and Russian, making our entire submission, editorial, peer review, and publication process available in the journal’s six working languages.
Second, authors may submit their manuscript in both English and a language other than the journal’s six core languages, but it must be one of the 31 languages spoken by members of the journal’s Editorial Team. These include: Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. In this case, the manuscript will go through the review process in English but will be published in both languages.
Global Open Access
Constitutional Studies is an entirely open-access, online journal. The journal does not charge any fees for authors to publish their work or for readers to access their work. This is made possible by the University of Texas at Austin and Texas Digital Library that provide the journal website and journal management system for free. This is also made possible in particular by the entire Editorial Team, composed of 84 scholars from 36 countries who share a vision of removing barriers to publishing and sharing constitutional scholarship globally, as we work to understand the unique and shared challenges and opportunities constitutional systems face around the world.
More Information
Visit the Constitutional Studies website to learn more about the benefits of publishing with CS, how to submit your work, and what the editorial process entails. There you can also learn more about doing book reviews and special issues with the journal.
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