Call for Papers: Constitutional Studies
/Submissions for 2026 Issues Now Open in English, French, and Spanish
Constitutional Studies is now accepting submissions for its 2026 issues in English, French, and Spanish! Constitutional Studies is an international open access, double-blind peer reviewed academic journal published twice annually by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law.
Topics of Interest
Constitutional Studies publishes work from a variety of disciplines addressing the theory and practice of constitutional government around the world. We place top priority on engaging scholars from diverse geographic and topical research areas as we work collectively to expand our understanding of constitutional democracy, formal and informal constitutional systems, constitutional jurisprudence, and related subjects in comparative constitutional studies.
Our June 2025 State of the Field issue and December 2025 Constitutionalism in the Age of Extremes issue provide an indication of the diverse issues and regions covered in our journal.
Multilingual Publishing
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 on our multilingual submission platform, proceeding through all stages of the editorial, peer review, and publishing process in that language. In the year ahead, we plan to expand our manuscript submission platform to also accept submissions in Arabic, Mandarin, and Russian, which will make 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 our 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.
Submission Process
The journal is published twice annually in June and December each year. We invite you to learn more about:
● Benefits of publishing with CS
● How to propose special issues
Connect with Us!
We encourage you to connect with us as we build the global community of constitutional scholars and practitioners publishing in Constitutional Studies:
● Attend our online Meet the Editors meetings in October
● Follow us on social media
● Signup for our email list
We certainly look forward to the prospect of working with you!