Human Rights Quarterly

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Books for review should be sent to:

Prof. Bert B. Lockwood  
Human Rights Quarterly 
Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights 
College of Law  
2925 Campus Green Dr 
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0040

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HRQ peer review

Human Rights Quarterly(HRQ) is a multidisciplinary journal. The typical article is around 10,000 words.  Decisions on acceptance are made by the faculty Editor-in-Chief and faculty Deputy Editor. Approximately 25 percent of the articles will be sent out for blind review to other experts for advice. The actual editing of the articles is done by our law student staff of approximately 70 students.  We strive for every article to be able to be understood by the literate reader.  Every footnote is checked for form and accuracy. The staff works closely with the authors. It is our firm belief that the key to the success of HRQ is this hybrid editorial approach, and our authors are grateful for the care and attention their manuscripts receive.

Editor-in-Chief

Bert B. Lockwood
Professor and Director
Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights
College of Law, University of Cincinnati

Deputy Editors

Jacob Katz Cogan
Professor
College of Law, University of Cincinnati

Ryan Thoreson
Professor
College of Law, University of Cincinnati

Program Manager

Pamela Wissman

Managing Editor

Maya Huffman

Senior Articles Editors with Portfolio

Avery Anderson
Caroline Waller

Senior Articles Editors

Kiera Burns*
Darcy Fahey
Paola Loera
Callie Mobley*

Articles Editors

Hailey Bishop
Claire Courter
Claire Green
Hannah Jawed
Ethan Lilly
Sophia Lindley
Abriana Malfatti
Cameron McDonald
Abraham Nassif
Allison Niemeier
Julia Parrey*
Ema Rennie*
Stephanie Robbins*
Sarah Tessler        

Cite Checkers

Kathleen Adams
Lauren Baxter
Katie Bell
Stephanie Buettner
Priscilla Cabellero
Katie Carey
Jocelyn Carraher
Clare Cavanagh
Sam Cox
Torie Davis
Breanna Dweik
Molly Dynda
Leya Essex
Laken George
Logan Groff
Yvonne Gyimah
Kaitlyn Hogden
Madeline Howard
Camryn Houston
Briana James
Lily Jones
Michelle Lopez*
Rose Martyn*
Mesgana Mekibib
Sydney Minick
Rebecca Morford
Cameron Parnell
Erin Roberts
Janos Roper
Derek Rose
Hunter Shallcross*
Jacob Shroder
Raylee Smith
Zane Stant
Ashley Stewart
Kanyon Tapp
Maddison Tarango
Cliff Thomas
Hue Tran
Isabelle Wolf
Katie Sellers
Caitlin Zawodny    

Advisory Editorial Board

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na´im, Emory Law School
Rebecca Cook, University of Toronto
Radhika Coomaraswamy, United Nations
Jose Ramos Horta, Nobel Peace Prize
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize and Coordinator General del Servicio Paz y Justicia América Latina
Theo van Boven, Former Director, United Nations Centre on Human Rights

Editorial Review Board

Reza Afshari
Payam Akhavan
Philip Alston
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Louis Bickford
Clifford Bob
Eva Brems
Reed Brody
Chris Bryant
Alison Brysk
Sonia Cardenas
Charli Carpenter
Jacob Katz Cogan
Rebecca Cook
Margaret E. Crahan
Norman Daniels
Michael Davis
Unity Dow
Haley Dushinsky
Mark Ensalaco
Patricia Weiss Fagen
David P. Forsythe
Mark Gibney
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
Iain Guest
Hurst Hannum
Dina Francesca Haynes
William A. Hazelton
Alice H. Henkin
Charles P. Henry
Paul Hoffman
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Paul Hunt
Barbara Keys
Morten Kjaerum
Harold Hongju Koh
Donald P. Kommers
Todd Landman
Paul Gordon Lauren
John A. Lent
Matthew Lippman
George A. Lopez
Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Gay J. McDougall
Cecilia Medina
Theodor Meron
Makau Mutua
Ved P. Nanda
Andrew Nathan
Paula R. Newberg
James W. Nickel
Jay Ovsiovitch
Zoran Pajic
Han S. Park
Champa Patel
Teresa Phelps
Patricia L. Rengel
Alison Dundes Renteln
Amy Ross
Kenneth Roth
Jeremy Sarkin
Lars Schoultz
James D. Seymour
Dinah L. Shelton
Henry Shue
Michael Stein
Henry J. Steiner
Eric Stover
Kimberly Theidon
Howard Tolley
Claude E. Welch
Richard A. Wilson
Richard Wilson
Alicia Ely Yamin
Amy Young

The Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

Director
Bert B. Lockwood

Program Manager
Pamela Wissman

Advisory Board
Philip Alston
Abdullahi An-Na'im
Rebecca J. Cook
Judge Unity Dow
Cees Flinterman
Gay McDougall
Juan Mendez
W. Michael Reisman
Mark L. Schneider
Joseph P. Tomain

* Denotes Arthur Russell Morgan Fellows

Send books for review to:

Prof. Bert B. Lockwood 
Human Rights Quarterly
Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights
College of Law 
2925 Campus Green Dr
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0040

[email protected]

Please send book review copies to the contact above. Review copies received by the Johns Hopkins University Press office will be discarded.

Abstracting & Indexing Databases

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Abstracting & Indexing Sources

• Abstracts of Book Reviews in Current Legal Periodicals   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Business Publications Index and Abstracts   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Family Index   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Religion Index One: Periodicals   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Social Planning - Policy & Development Abstracts   (Ceased)  (Print)
• Electronic Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East   (Researched / Unresolved)  (Print)

Source: Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory.

0.8 (2024)
1.1 (Five-Year Impact Factor)
0.00061 (Eigenfactor™ Score)

Rank in Category (by Journal Impact Factor):
214 of 322 journals, in “Political Science”
45 of 68 journals, in “Social Issues”

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