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About the Journal of Law and Society format

Journal of Law and Society is a peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley, covering Law in Society and Culture, Legal Education and Practice Innovations, Judicial and Constitutional Studies.

PublisherWiley
Reference styleAuthor–year (Chicago)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of Law and Society 12 (3): 45–58.

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Publishes research inLaw in Society and Culture Legal Education and Practice Innovations Judicial and Constitutional Studies Legal principles and applications Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
ISSN0263-323X
Citation impact (2-yr)0.77
h-index84
i10-index690
Total citations37,041
Article processing charge$2,880
Top institutions publishing hereCardiff University
Journal websiteonlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Papers published in Journal of Law and Society per year

55
2014
48
2015
48
2016
63
2017
69
2018
67
2019
72
2020
67
2021
69
2022
63
2023
63
2024
77
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Law and Society by publication year

401
2014
475
2015
479
2016
473
2017
416
2018
376
2019
567
2020
309
2021
404
2022
151
2023
92
2024
33
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Law and Society

From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument

Vaughan Lowe, Martti Koskenniemi · 1 Jan 1990

This book presents a critical view of international law as an argumentative practice that aims to 'depoliticise' international relations. Drawing from a range of materials, Koskenniemi demonstrates how international law becomes vulnerable to the contrasting criticisms of being either an irrelevant moralist Utopia or a manipulable facade for State interests. He examines the conflicts inherent…

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Law: A Map of Misreading. Toward a Postmodern Conception of Law

Boaventura de Sousa Santos · 1 Jan 1987

In Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche announced that the spirit has undergone three metamorphoses.' In the first one the spirit becomes a camel; then the camel becomes a lion; and finally the lion becomes a child. While a camel, the spirit allows itself to be loaded with any values or beliefs humanity wants to load it…

Accountability in the Regulatory State

Colin Scott · 1 Mar 2000

Accountability has long been both a key theme and a key problem in constitutional scholarship. The centrality of the accountability debates in contemporary political and legal discourse is a product of the difficulty of balancing the autonomy given to those exercising public power with appropriate control. The traditional mechanisms of accountability to Parliament and to…

Beyond Legalism: Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice

Kieran McEvoy · 20 Nov 2007

The field of transitional justice is increasingly characterized by the dominance of legalism to the detriment of both scholarship and practice. The first part of the paper examines what is meant by legalism and its consequences in the field through a number of overlapping themes: ‘legalism as seduction’, the ‘triumph’ of human rights, and the…

The Faces of Justice and State Authority: A Comparative Approach to the Legal Process

Philip Lewis, Mirjan Damaška · 1 Jan 1987

A leading legal scholar provides a highly original comparative analysis of how justice is administered in legal systems around the world and of the profound and often puzzling changes taking place in civil and criminal procedure. Constructing a conceptual framework of the legal process based on the link between politics and justice, Mirjan R. Damaska…

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What reference style does Journal of Law and Society use?
Journal of Law and Society uses Author–year (Chicago) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of Law and Society 12 (3): 45–58.
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