Journal of Legal Analysis

Journal of Legal Analysis is published by Oxford University Press and is in Zone 2 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems, Legal and Constitutional Studies and Judicial and Constitutional Studies, together about 52.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Legal Analysis is the only peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of law. It welcomes traditional legal articles as well as interdisciplinary work and invites submissions from scholars worldwide. It is published as an open access journal by Oxford University Press on behalf of Harvard Law School with a board of editors drawn from many universities. The vision for the Journal was Professor Steven Shavell’s, who founded the JLA in 2008. An alumnus of Harvard Law School, Terry Considine, generously provided funds to launch the Journal and to sustain it for many years. The first issue appeared in 2009. Past editors of the Journal were Professors Mark Ramseyer (2009-2018) and Oren Bar-Gill and Daryl Levinson (2019-2023). Message from the Editors As new Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Legal Analysis, we proudly carry forward its mission as a peer-reviewed alternative to student-edited law reviews for first-rate legal scholarship. The vision of the JLA’s founder, Steven Shavell, was to offer for law what is standard in other disciplines: a peer-reviewed outlet that can assess and vouch for quality of articles and provide collegial feedback to authors, which student-edited law reviews cannot. More to the point, his vision was to offer this for legal scholarship as a whole, not only interdisciplinary “law and” fields like “law and economics,” which had already moved in this direction. This vision remains as vital as ever. We are proud to continue the great work of our predecessors Oren Bar-Gill, Daryl Levinson, and Mark Ramseyer. Under their leadership, the JLA’s impact factor has surpassed that of much older peer-reviewed journals like the Journal of Legal Studies. We are grateful for the continued support of Harvard Law School, its Dean John Manning, our publisher Oxford University Press, and a superb board of editors, especially our co-editors William Baude, Gabriella Blum, Daniel Hemel, Daphna Renan, and Nicholas Stephanopoulos. The JLA will continue to publish works from scholars worldwide on all law-related topics, whether doctrinal or interdisciplinary. The JLA is not another “law and” journal. The three of us embody very different scholarly traditions. We are united, however, in our interest in law and our appreciation of novel, quality contributions. We recognize that such contributions can come in different shapes, whether written in standard law journal mode or in a shorter, less heavily footnoted format. We do not require unnecessary ‘st

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): LAW

Editor-in-chief Guy-Uriel CharlesPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 38 (38 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

7.13LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

6.1Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

6.1Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

6.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

6.1Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

1.21LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

5.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

38OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

94OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

11.97OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

2.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

96.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

11LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

131,152Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 16 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 16 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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Publisher

Oxford University Press

Country or region

United Kingdom

Language

English

ISSN

2161-7201

Electronic ISSN

1946-5319

Latest issue on the website

Volume 18, Issue 1 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ