Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Double Blind
Quarterly
10% acceptance rate
Peer Review
Double Blind
OA Type
Hybrid OA
Acceptance
10%
Time to Decision
14 weeks
Frequency
Quarterly
APC
2,800 GBP
Impact Factor (2023)
2.8
CiteScore (2023)
3.6
About This Journal
The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (OJLS) is one of the world's most distinguished general law journals, published by Oxford Scholarly Press. Since its foundation, OJLS has provided a forum for scholarship that advances legal theory and doctrine across all areas of public and private law. The journal is committed to legal scholarship of the highest intellectual quality and welcomes contributions that engage seriously with legal doctrine, legal theory, legal history, and the relationship between law and other disciplines.
Aims & Scope
OJLS publishes original scholarship across the full range of legal subjects:
• Public law: constitutional law, administrative law, and judicial review
• Private law: contract, tort, property, trusts, and unjust enrichment
• Criminal law and criminal justice: substantive criminal law and criminal procedure
• Jurisprudence and legal theory: positivism, natural law, interpretivism, and critical legal studies
• Legal history: common law history, Roman law, and comparative legal history
• Comparative law: civil law systems, common law systems, and mixed legal systems
• International law: public international law, private international law, and EU law
• Law and society: law and economics, law and sociology, and socio-legal studies
• Emerging areas: data law, AI regulation, and digital governance
The journal accepts articles across the full range of legal subjects without disciplinary restriction.
• Public law: constitutional law, administrative law, and judicial review
• Private law: contract, tort, property, trusts, and unjust enrichment
• Criminal law and criminal justice: substantive criminal law and criminal procedure
• Jurisprudence and legal theory: positivism, natural law, interpretivism, and critical legal studies
• Legal history: common law history, Roman law, and comparative legal history
• Comparative law: civil law systems, common law systems, and mixed legal systems
• International law: public international law, private international law, and EU law
• Law and society: law and economics, law and sociology, and socio-legal studies
• Emerging areas: data law, AI regulation, and digital governance
The journal accepts articles across the full range of legal subjects without disciplinary restriction.