CPDP Book Series – Volume 19
Working Title: Data Protection, Privacy and Artificial Intelligence: Competing Visions / Shared Futures

The Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) book series, published by Hart Publishing, is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed publication offering cutting-edge research on the evolving landscape of privacy and data protection. It features legal, regulatory, technological, and academic perspectives on key issues discussed annually at the CPDP conference in Brussels.

Since 2009, the series has brought together leading voices from law, technology, policy, and academia. Contributions have explored recent developments in data protection law, privacy-by-design, privacy-enhancing technologies, and the implications of emerging technologies such as conversational agents, machine learning, the Internet of Things, and AI. The books aim to provide forward-looking insights and provoke critical debate, making them a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers alike.

For the upcoming volume, we invite submissions of original academic work that engages with the theme "Data Protection, Privacy and Artificial Intelligence: Competing Visions / Shared Futures." Contributions should align with the broader 2026 conference theme, as described in the CPDP Call for Papers and Call for Panels available on our website. The book will also include selected papers from the CPDP2026 Academic Sessions.

Submission deadline: 26 July 2026 

• Manuscripts must be anonymised and submitted via our submission platform.
• Contributions must be between 6,000 and 9,000 words (excluding footnotes).
• Submissions must be anonymised
• Authors are required to follow Bloomsbury's AI Policy
• All submissions will undergo blind peer review, coordinated by the volume’s editors. Authors will receive reviewer feedback and may submit a rebuttal. Reviewers will also assess referencing and overall language quality (see guidelines below).

Our goal is to publish the nineteenth volume ahead of the next CPDP conference in 2027. The review and editorial process will take place in August and September 2026, with final manuscript preparation planned for early October.

For any questions, please contact: jonas@privacysalon.org. 

Note: Authors who submitted to the CPDP 2026 Call for Papers will automatically be considered for inclusion in the book.

If you intend to propose a contribution as an author, there are a number of important issues we want to make you aware of from the outset:
 

Only original and unpublished work, not submitted anywhere else, should be submitted to the book.

The total amount of royalties generated by the book will be transferred to a Privacy Salon-account and will be integrally used for the organization of the next CPDP conference. 

Hart Publishing requires every author of a contribution to accept and sign the contributor form. Details about the procedure for submitting this form will be sent to the corresponding authors after review and acceptance of the papers.

Only chapters that adhere to academic standards will be accepted for the book. 

The peer review process will also evaluate the quality of English. In order to make the costly and intense process of language review easier, please only submit contributions written in English with correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Authors are required to follow Bloomsbury's AI Policy, which permits assistive AI use (research, brainstorming, editing via private systems, image enhancement via Adobe Creative Cloud) but prohibits AI-generated content and requires disclosure of any non-trivial AI use. 

Contributions must be submitted for review in Word or PDF format. Files shall be titled after the submitters’ last name(s) and the title of the paper.

Contributions need to be anonymized for blind peer review. The text of the submission shall not include the name of the author(s), and all self-references must be deleted, including project and funding information. 

Each contribution must use footnotes (not endnotes) numbered consecutively. Regarding numbering, the decimal system should be used: i.e., for Chapter X, each heading will be numbered X.1, X.2, X.3, etc., and each subheading X.1.1., X. 1.2, X. 1.3, etc., and each subsubheading X.1.1.1, X.1.1.2, X.1.1.3. etc.

We hope that these guidelines are clear and helpful, but don’t hesitate to contact the editors at jonas@privacysalon.org if you still have questions.

Authors must use OSCOLA’s style of bibliographic description according to the Hart Publishing House Style Guidelines for Authors and Editors (OSCOLA 1.7 Short-title system) for citations and references, employing footnotes only; no bibliography should be included.

Here are some examples:

One author (book)
N: W Doniger, Splitting the Difference (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999) 65.
Short title: Doniger, Splitting the Difference
 

Two authors (book)
G Cowlishaw and R Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000) 104–7.
Short title: Cowlishaw and Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology
 

Four or more authors (book)
EO Laumann et al, The Social Organization of Sexuality (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1994) 262.
 

Chapter in edited volume
A Wiese, 'The House I Live In: Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States' in KM Kruse and TJ Sugrue (eds), The New Suburban History (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006) 101–2.

Short title: Wiese, 'The House I Live In'

Journal article
JM Smith, 'The Origin of Altruism' (1998) 393 Nature 639, 640.

Short title: Smith, 'The Origin of Altruism'
 

Key differences from Chicago to flag for authors: initials only (closed up), parentheses around publication details, year before volume in journal citations, and the short-title system replacing ibid.