Legal Studies (law journal)

*Legal Studies*
Discipline	law
Language	English
Publication details
History	1981–present
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (previously published by John Wiley & Sons)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Leg. Stud.
Indexing;
ISSN	1748-121X;
Links
	Journal homepage;

Legal Studies (ISSN 1748-121X) is published for The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) by Cambridge University Press.^[1] It was first published in 1981 and is now recognised as "one of the leading generalist journals in the UK".^[2] Legal Studies publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, notes, reports, and book reviews. It has been edited by a board located in University of Manchester’s School of Law since 2016.^[3] A ranking of UK law journals based on statistical data from the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise uses Legal Studies as the 'benchmark'.^[4]

As of 2018, Legal Studies is no longer published by Wiley but published by Cambridge University Press.^[5]

The winner of the Society of Legal Scholars' best paper award in 2023 was made to Conall Mallory and Hélène Tyrrell for their article The Extrajudicial Voice, a study of the views of 13 very senior judges as to their role and conduct.^[6]

References

^ "Legal Studies". Legal Studies. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1748-121X.
^ Fiona Cownie and Raymond Cocks (2009). A Great and Noble Occupation!: The History of the Society of Legal Scholars. Oxford: Hart Publishing. p. 249.
^ SLS website
^ Campbell K, Goodacre A, Little G (2006). "Ranking of United Kingdom Law Journals: An Analysis of the Research Assessment Exercise 2001 Submissions and Results". Journal of Law and Society. 33 (3): 335–63. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6478.2006.00362.x. S2CID 143799999.(subscription required)
^ Announcement
^ https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/3A343844D846982771084E4B4CA0850D/S0261387524000023a.pdf/the-extrajudicial-voice.pdf Retrieved 19 April 2023

External links

Official website

[1] "Legal Studies". Legal Studies. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1748-121X.

[2] Fiona Cownie and Raymond Cocks (2009). A Great and Noble Occupation!: The History of the Society of Legal Scholars. Oxford: Hart Publishing. p. 249.

[3] SLS website

[4] Campbell K, Goodacre A, Little G (2006). "Ranking of United Kingdom Law Journals: An Analysis of the Research Assessment Exercise 2001 Submissions and Results". Journal of Law and Society. 33 (3): 335–63. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6478.2006.00362.x. S2CID 143799999.(subscription required)

[5] Announcement

[6] ttps://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/3A343844D846982771084E4B4CA0850D/S0261387524000023a.pdf/the-extrajudicial-voice.pdf Retrieved 19 April 2023

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