A journal for considered inquiry.
Cognition Review publishes scholarship that takes the disciplines of law and psychology as mutually instructive, and that brings both to bear on the questions of the present.
Mission
The Review exists to publish careful, original work at the intersection of legal doctrine, psychological science, and the public matters in which both are implicated. We are independent — affiliated with no single institution, supported by no single donor — and our editorial decisions are governed by the judgment of working scholars rather than the preferences of any patron.
Editorial philosophy
We prefer arguments that are wrong in interesting ways to arguments that are right in obvious ones. We treat disciplinary boundaries as historically contingent and intellectually unbinding. We expect contributors to address an audience of educated generalists, and we edit accordingly: jargon is permitted only where it is doing work that no plainer word can do.
Every submission is reviewed under a double-blind protocol by at least two outside readers drawn from a standing panel of legal scholars and psychologists. Decisions are rendered, on average, within eight weeks.
Scope of inquiry
The Review publishes articles, case comments, essays, and shorter pieces on current events. Subjects we regularly consider include constitutional interpretation; criminal procedure and the cognitive sciences of memory, confidence, and deception; administrative law and institutional design; the regulation of emerging technologies; and the philosophy of evidence.