The Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal is a faculty-edited, peer-reviewed journal housed at Chicago-Kent College of Law. In 1997, it began as a joint project of Chicago-Kent’s Institute for Law and the Workplace and the National Employee Rights Institute. In 2016, the Journal became a joint project of the College of Law and the Labor Law Group. In 2022, the Institute at Chicago-Kent was endowed in honor of the Institute’s and Journal’s founder, Professor Emeritus Martin H. Malin, and was renamed the Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace. For the first 26 years, the Journal published two issues per year, and those issues are available in the archive.

Beginning in August 2023 (Volume 27), the Journal is now published exclusively online. Also beginning in 2023, the Journal holds an annual symposium (generally in the spring, open to the public, with CLE available). The symposium speakers write papers, which then get published by the Journal each year.

Despite these changes, the Journal continues its tradition of publishing articles containing diverse perspectives on legal and law-related issues focused on all aspects of the workplace. The Journal is multidisciplinary in approach, publishing submissions from individuals in all disciplines, including labor and employment law, employment discrimination law, disability law (as it applies to the workplace), labor relations, human resources management, and many others.

Moreover, the Journal continues to accept submissions through our peer-review process. You can find more information about submitting an article for publication consideration here. Submissions to the Journal are treated to a double-blind review by members of the editorial board (a group of distinguished professors in labor and employment law and related disciplines) and edited by your peers—people who can help you improve your work, not just publish it. You receive suggestions that you may use at your discretion—we do not rewrite your article. We have a student staff that performs Bluebooking and cite-checking but our authors never have to deal with them—we do!

Regardless of whether you publish through our symposia or through the unsolicited peer-review process, our process is a more enjoyable experience for our authors. We respect our authors’ time, expertise, and writing styles. We encourage you to publish with us.