The Georgetown Journal of Law and Modern Critical Race Perspectives

Call for Submissions

Volume 19

The Afterlives of Racial Ordering in Contemporary Law:
Critical Race Theory and Governance

The Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives invites submissions for its forthcoming volume on The Afterlives of Racial Ordering in Contemporary Law. This volume examines how contemporary systems of governance reproduce, reconfigure, and legitimize racial hierarchy in the context of formal legal equality, both within and beyond the United States.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) has long challenged the assumption that racial inequality exists only as a remnant of the past. In particular, CRT scholars have demonstrated how legal and institutional frameworks, often operating through ostensibly neutral procedures, standards, and forms of expertise, continue to structure racialized outcomes. Increasingly, these frameworks operate not only within domestic legal systems, but across transnational and global contexts, where ideas about race, risk, markets, and governance are translated, adapted, and redeployed. Building on this insight, this volume centers domestic and international governance as a key site through which racial ordering is maintained and contested.

We are particularly interested in work that interrogates how modern governance regimes, (including administrative systems, regulatory frameworks, and emerging technologies) allocate authority, manage populations, and produce differential outcomes along racial lines. We welcome contributions that engage comparative, international, and transnational perspectives, including work that examines how racialized logics travel between legal systems, how global governance institutions shape local racial formations, and how scholars and advocates draw on CRT to respond to these dynamics in diverse contexts.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Administrative law, agency decision-making, and racialized governance across jurisdictions
• Artificial intelligence, algorithmic governance, and automated decision-making systems
• Data, risk assessment, and the role of expertise in shaping legal and institutional decisions
• Corporate governance and internal decision-making structures
• The legal regulation and transformation of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Policing, surveillance, borders, and the governance of mobility
• Property and land use as systems of governance and control
• The role of international institutions and global governance regimes in shaping racialized outcomes
• Critical Race Theory as a framework for movement lawyering, institutional design, and reform strategies
• The relationship between race, law, and governance more broadly

We welcome a range of methodological approaches, including doctrinal, theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary work. Submissions may engage historical or contemporary analysis but should speak to the persistence or transformation of racialized governance within modern legal systems.

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should be original, unpublished works that meet the standards of legal academic scholarship. Submissions should generally range between 5,000-15,000 words, not including footnotes, and conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation Twenty-Second Edition. 

Please submit manuscripts via Scholastica in Word Document (docx.) format. We will review submissions on a rolling basis, with priority given to manuscripts submitted by August 10th, 2026 at 11:59 pm. 

The Georgetown Journal of Law and Modern Critical Race Perspectives adheres to the Artificial Intelligence policy adopted by the Georgetown Law Journal. Please see the GLJ page for more information. 

For questions, please contact lawmcrp@georgetown.edu(This link opens in a new tab). 

Journal Mission

The Georgetown Journal on Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives encourages submissions from scholars across disciplines, as well as practitioners whose work engages with the themes of this volume.

Submissions Guidance

The Georgetown Law Journal of Modern and Critical Race Perspectives (MCRP) is dedicated to legal scholarship on race and identity. We seek to elevate and connect scholarship and activism, and we provide the following guidance for you to consider when submitting your piece to our journal.

We are a journal of critical race theory. We seek to investigate the relationships between racism, race, power, and the law. Submissions to our journal should be relevant to our focus. We know that all disciplines are connected, and we know that critical race theory overlaps substantially with the social and political sciences. But we seek legal scholarship, not just racism-focused scholarship more generally.

We are looking for works that advance the field of critical race theory and are not wedded to particular lengths of scholarship. We are not focusing on shorter submissions that merely restate existing scholarship—nor we are not looking to publish works that are better suited for publication as books.

Many topics are worthy of—and in need for—critical race scholarship, and we welcome a wide array of topics that fall under this umbrella. But we are looking for works of scholarship that coherently convey their central theses without the need for substantial substantive modification by our production process.

We will engage in a rigorous production process for all pieces that we accept for publication, but we are looking for submissions that are ready for publication. The closer a piece is to being publication-ready, the more effectively we can focus on reviewing and polishing its substance instead of its form.

Both article and student note submissions should adhere to the following technical criteria: MS Word format; double-spaced text (twelve-point Times New Roman font); single-spaced footnotes (ten-point Times New Roman font); one-inch margins all around; and Bluebook (Twenty-First Edition) citation format.

Article Submissions

To submit electronically, please email your submission to lawmcrp@georgetown.edu(This link opens in a new tab) or submit it via Scholastica or ExpressO. To submit by mail, please send a hard copy of your submission to:

Submissions Editor
Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Student Notes Submissions

The Georgetown Journal of Law and Modern Critical Race Perspectives is excited to offer the opportunity for students to enter an academic dialogue with leaders in the field of Critical Race Theory. MCRP welcomes submissions from students from Georgetown Law and other schools.

Submissions should be emailed to lawmcrp@georgetown.edu(This link opens in a new tab) with attention to Student Notes Editor. Please include  the title of the article in the subject line. The body of the e-mail should include your name, phone number, and mailing address.

Expedited Review

If your submission has been offered publication with another journal, we will make every effort to comply with a request for expedited review.

To request an expedited review, please email lawmcrp@georgetown.edu(This link opens in a new tab) and include the following information:

• Name
• Phone number
• Email address
• Title of the article
• The journal that has accepted the article
• Your deadline

To facilitate the review process, we request that you attach an electronic copy of your article to the email request for expedited review.