Call for Papers: 2020 JLTR Conference

Submissions are now closed

The annual Journal of Legal Tax Research Conference will be held in conjunction with the
American Taxation Association (ATA) Midyear Meeting in Fort Worth, TX on February 28 and 29, 2020. Original papers addressing interesting and relevant legal tax research Issues along with associated applied tax policy will be considered for the conference. A paper under review (or being revised for resubmission) at another journal as of the conference submission deadline may not be submitted.

We encourage creative and innovative manuscripts that employ legal research methodologies and that logically and clearly:

• Identify, describe, and illuminate important current tax issues including the history, development, and congressional intent of specific provisions
• Propose improvements in U.S., state and local, or foreign tax systems, and unique solutions to tax or fiscal problems
• Critically analyze proposed or recent tax law changes from both a technical and a policy perspective
• Discuss improvements in tax compliance, tax complexity, or tax policy
• Provide critical discussions for strategically structuring transactions, considering tax and non-tax ramifications
• Critically analyze recent or proposed legislative or regulatory changes
• Critically analyze similarities and differences between tax accounting and financial accounting issues

Please note below the new submission instructions.

REVISED INSTRUCTIONS FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION:

• This year, all Journal Conference manuscripts will be submitted through the same platform as the Research Submissions. When you submit to the Journal Conference, you will be asked whether or not you also want the manuscript to be considered for a Research Session. There is no need to submit the paper twice, information is included in submission instructions below to be considered for both the journal conference and a research session.
• Manuscripts should be prepared in the same style as a journal submission and must be no longer than 25 – 30 double spaced pages long, without the references. Instructions regarding the preparation of files for submission can be found here.
• Authors will submit one file.  Include the title and abstract of the manuscript on the first page of the document. To ensure anonymous review, all information should be removed from the properties of your PDF or Word Doc. Note: Word Docs will be converted to a PDF when uploaded to the journal conference submission site.
• PDF: Found under File, Properties, Description.
• Word Doc: Found under File, Info, Check for Issues, Inspect Document, Document Properties and Personal Information (should be checked), click Inspect. You will be prompted to remove all document properties and author information. 
• Papers submitted for the Journal of Legal Tax Research Conference are NOT automatically considered for publication in JLTR. To be considered for publication in JLTR, please see additional instructions below.
• To be considered, papers must be received no later than October 25, 2019.
• There is no fee to submit to the journal conference.
• Authors will be notified of the Conference selection decision by December 13, 2019.