Journal of Law and Society
Last updated ISSN 0263-323X
Journal of Law and Society is published by Wiley in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,170.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Law and Society concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Law in Society and Culture
- Legal Education and Practice Innovations
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Legal principles and applications
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Comparative and International Law Studies
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- International Law and Human Rights
- European and International Law Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0263-323X, 1467-6478 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,170 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,045 |
| Publishing since | 1980 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14676478 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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