The following journals are currently calling for papers

African Multidisciplinary Tax Journal (AMTJ), Volume 6, 2026

The African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) invites submissions for Volume 6 of the African Multidisciplinary Tax Journal (AMTJ), a peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed journal focused on applied research in tax policy, legislation, and administration across Africa.

About the AMTJ
The Journal publishes evidence-based research that supports tax policy and practice on the continent. It provides a platform for academics, practitioners, and policymakers to share insights and innovative approaches that strengthen African tax systems and enhance domestic resource mobilisation (DRM). Articles are accepted in English, French, and Portuguese.

Why Publish with AMTJ

• The AMTJ is indexed in Scopus, one of the world’s leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and academic credibility.
• Accessible to libraries and leading universities worldwide.
• Wide readership, including ATAF’s 45 member administrations, international partners, and the broader policy community.
• Rigorous double-blind peer-review process, ensuring scholarly quality, originality, and policy relevance.

Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts must align with the AMTJ Author Guidelines, and all submissions must be made via the AMTJ Online Submission Portal available here.

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 12 December 2025
Publication date: 1 July 2026

For queries, contact:
Prof Uwuigbe Uwalomwa (AMTJ Editor-in-Chief): amtj@ataftax.org
Frank Kalizinje (AMTJ Journal Manager): fkalizinje@ataftax.org

Join us in shaping Africa’s tax discourse and advancing evidence-based policymaking.

Africa Journal of Crime and Justice – Volume 4 Issue 1 2025

Theme: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Criminal Justice in Africa

The Africa Journal of Crime and Justice (AJCJ) is excited to announce a call for papers for its Volume 4 issue, dedicated to exploring the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on criminal justice systems across Africa. As AI technologies reshape law enforcement, courts, and corrections, there is an urgent need for critical scholarship that interrogates opportunities, challenges, and ethical implications.

We welcome innovative research, case studies, policy analyses, and conceptual papers that critically examine the role of AI in crime prevention, investigation, adjudication, and rehabilitation.

Subthemes include (but are not limited to):

• AI in Policing and Investigations: Predictive policing, facial recognition, surveillance technologies, and ethical implications.
• AI and Evidence: AI-assisted forensics, automated data analysis, and challenges to evidentiary standards.
• Cybercrime and AI: AI-driven cyber threats, detection tools, and cross-border regulatory frameworks.
• Criminal Justice Administration: AI in case management, sentencing, risk assessment, and corrections.
• Ethics, Bias, and Human Rights: Addressing algorithmic bias, privacy concerns, accountability, and transparency.
• Policy, Governance, and Regulation: Crafting legal frameworks for AI deployment in African criminal justice systems.
• International Criminal Justice and AI: Emerging issues relating to rules of procedure and evidence and international criminal law
• Future Perspectives: Emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities for AI integration in African criminal justice.

 Submission Guidelines:

• Manuscripts must be original and unpublished.
• Word count: 8 000–10 000 words (including references).
• Abstract: 250–300 words.
• Follow APA 7th Edition formatting.

Key Dates:

• Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2026
• Full manuscript submission deadline: 30 March 2026
• Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2026
• Publication: July 2026.

Inquiries: ajcj@usiu.ac.ke

Shape the future of criminal justice in Africa! Whether you are a scholar, practitioner, policymaker, or student, your insights on AI’s transformative role in criminal justice are welcome. Join the conversation on the technologies that are redefining law, justice, and security across the continent.

Journal of Ocean Governance in Africa – Volumes 3 and 4

Background

The Journal of Ocean Governance in Africa (JOGA) is a blind peer-reviewed Journal housed in the South African International Maritime Institute (SAIMI).

In 2020, it was decided to rename the publication to remove any suggestion that the Journal might focus primarily on ocean law by removing the word ‘law’ from the previous title of the Journal (The Journal of Ocean Law and Governance in Africa). The disciplinary and geographical width of the editorial team has also been broadened. The vision of the journal is to encourage and support the fast-growing pool of emerging African ocean governance scholars in publishing excellent research outputs on a scientific and policy platform with which they are as comfortable as possible. The JOGA editorial team is thus pleased to invite submissions for its second and third issues to be published in 2025.

The 2nd edition of the Journal is currently in publication.

Aim and Scope

The Journal of Ocean Governance in Africa (JOGA) will publish two issues in 2025 focusing on providing a dedicated platform for emerging African Ocean governance scholars to publish high-quality research outputs. The journal aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on ocean governance issues affecting Africa with a particular focus on policy development and implementation and ocean law and legal frameworks.

Author Guidelines

JOGA accepts the following submissions:

1. Articles that do not exceed 12 000 words (including footnotes);
2. Notes between 3 000 and 8 000 words (including footnotes);
3. Updates and reports that do not exceed 3 000 words; and
4. Book reviews between 2 000 and 5 000 words (including footnotes).
   Manuscripts must be submitted to the following email address: joga@saimi.co.za by no later than 28 February 2025. Manuscripts must be in Microsoft Word (.doc) or (.docx) and must conform to JOGA’s stylistic guidelines.

Kindly note that a manuscript will be considered for publication:

• only on the assurance that it has not, in whole or in part or in substance, been published or submitted for publication elsewhere;
• on the understanding that it may be submitted in confidence to at least two expert referees for evaluation; and
• on the understanding that the editors reserve the right to make whatever changes they consider desirable:
• to bring the manuscript into the house style of JOGA;
• to eliminate errors of typing, grammar, syntax, punctuation, spelling, idiom and the like; to eliminate ambiguity, illogicality, tautology, circumlocution and redundancy;
• to produce accuracy and coherence;
• to improve the mode of expression and style of writing; and
• to avoid possible criminal or civil liability.

For further information, visit joga@saimi.co.za

South African Intellectual Property Law Journal – Volume 12 Issue 1 (2024)

We invite you to submit contributions for consideration for the 2024 issue of the South African Intellectual Property Law Journal. Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis, however, the final submission date for consideration for the 2024 issue is 30 July 2024.

Contributions on all aspects of intellectual property law which have relevance to Africa, and in particular South Africa, are welcome. Submissions should be in the form of articles between 5000 and 10 000 words, or notes between 3000 and 4000 words. Submissions must be of a scholarly nature and offer a contribution to the knowledge in the field. A maximum of three notes will be published per issue.

All contributions must conform to the SAIPLJ house style and must not have been published elsewhere. The SAIPLJ is an accredited journal and all submissions are subject to a double-blind peer review process.

Submissions and enquiries can be directed to the editors at editoriplj@uct.ac.za.
For further information, visit www.jutajournals.co.za/south-african-intellectual-property-law-journal/

Juta invites both aspiring and established researchers to submit articles to our comprehensive range of law journals, which serve as a forum for jurisprudence within South Africa, Africa and beyond.

To submit a paper or for any other questions or comments related to any of our journals, please contact the Journals Product Manager: Ms Lita Spreeth at lspreeth@juta.co.za