Canadian Journal of Law and Society

Canadian Journal of Law and Society is published by Cambridge University Press and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Law in Society and Culture and Canadian Identity and History, together about 29.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Canadian Journal of Law and Society (CJLS) is a bilingual periodical publishing innovative research in the broad field of law and society scholarship. Rooted in the distinctive Canadian Law and Society movement, CJLS features international scholarship concerning the intersection of law and sociology, cultural studies, literature, political science, criminology, history, human rights, gender studies and political economy. The journal is edited by Olivier Barsalou, Catherine Evans and Amy Swiffen and supported by an international editorial board comprised of leading scholars from a range of disciplines. The CJLS is a bilingual peer-reviewed journal with a wide circulation in Canada and beyond. It is housed at Carleton University, Ottawa. We invite original submissions in either French or English. In addition, the CJLS publishes thematic special issues. The journal is published three times a year with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the office of the Vice-President, Research, the Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs and the Department of Law, Carleton University. CJLS is published by Cambridge for the Canadian Law and Society Association.La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société (RCDS) est une revue scientifique bilingue consacrée à la publication de recherches de pointe dans le vaste champ des études en droit et société. Ancrée dans l’innovateur mouvement canadien Droit et Société, la RCDS présente des études provenant de partout dans le monde sur des questions théoriques et empiriques se situant à l’intersection de la sociologie du droit, des études culturelles, de la littérature, des sciences politiques, de la criminologie, de l’histoire, des droits humains, des études de genre et de l’économie politique. Les rédacteurs et rédactrices en chef, Olivier Barsalou, Catherine Evans et Amy Swiffen, sont soutenues par un comité de rédaction composé d’universitaires d’avant-garde en provenance de plusieurs disciplines. La RCDS est une revue scientifique évaluée par les pairs, largement diffusée au Canada et à l’étranger. Elle a son siège à l’Université Carleton à Ottawa. La RCDS invite les personnes intéressées à soumettre des articles inédits en français ou en anglais. Par ailleurs, la RCDS publie des numéros spéciaux thématiques annuels. La RCDS est publiée trois fois par an, avec le soutien du Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada, celui du bureau du vice-président à la recherche, du doyen de la faculté des affaires publiques et du département de droit et d’études juridiques de l’Université Carleton. La RCDS est publiée par Cambridge pour l’Association Canadienne Droit et Société.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): LAW

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

0.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.25LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.74LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

38OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

189OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.48OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

23LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 59 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISSN

0829-3201

Electronic ISSN

1911-0227

Official links

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