The Journal of Legal Studies
Last updated ISSN 0047-2530
The Journal of Legal Studies is published by University of Chicago Press in economics, econometrics and finance. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Journal of Legal Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Legal and Constitutional Studies
- Legal principles and applications
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Insurance and Financial Risk Management
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- European and International Contract Law
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0047-2530, 1537-5366 |
| Subject area | Economics, Econometrics and Finance |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,386 |
| Publishing since | 1972 |
| Journal website | www.journals.uchicago.edu/loi/jls |
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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