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7 Soc. & Legal Stud. 5 (1998)

handle is hein.journals/solestu7 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL: SIX YEARS ON N 1992, in the first issue of Social & Legal Studies, the then editorial team published a brief editorial establishing the rationale and objectives of the new journal. Six years down the road, we have carried out a review of what the journal has achieved and considered some ways in which we could develop our work. This editorial reports some of the conclusions we have reached and indicates two ways in which we would like to push our work forward. The original editorial established an agenda with four main aims: publish- ing committed critical scholarship; promoting non-Western perspectives on law, regulation and criminology; integrating feminist analysis into socio-legal scholarship; and encouraging new theoretical approaches to law and its associ- ated practices. We wanted to promote debate between perspectives, to encour- age work with an international relevance, to support work carried out in developing countries and other contexts that might otherwise not have a voice in critical legal scholarship. Our commitments to feminism, to minority voices, to those marginalised by structures of social, economic and political power were advanced in the context of challenging the traditions, orthodox- ies and perspectives available in academically dominant Western countries. Others will judge how far we have achieved these different and layered objectives. Looking back over the articles we have published, certainly the topics covered have addressed many of the issues on which we wished to focus. Thus we have published papers in the areas of critical legal theory, gender and sexuality, critical criminology and criminal justice, rights and citizenship, regulation in a variety of contexts, postcolonialism and popular justice. We have also published authors from and writing about a large number of national and international contexts. While it is true that many of our authors write about the Anglo-American socio-legal world, we have carried articles dealing with law across the globe: in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, Sweden, South Africa and Zimbabwe. We now feel that Social & Legal Studies has established itself as a respected critical academic journal with its own particular orientation to socio-legal issues, but we want to consider how we can develop the journal to promote further the kinds of scholarship to which we are committed. In reviewing our activities, we have come up with two strategies for achieving this. SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES 0964 6639 (199803) 7:1 Copyright © 1998 SAGE Publications, London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi, Vol. 7(1), 5-6; 002394

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